Bogart
Date/ 1996
Artist(Credit Line)/ Nam June Paik
Classification/ Painting
Dimensions / 93.9×119.4cm
A still image of Humphrey Bogart, a well-known actor for Casablanca, was reproduced by making brush strokes following the face’s contour to produce an effect of a photographic negative. There are some Chinese characters written in white over the face. Below are cars and human faces, repeated horizontally with their left and right inverted continuously so that they are unfolded like a film roll. In his 1965 essay Electronic Video Recorder, Nam June Paik added his idea about laser as follows: “Because of WHF of LASER, we will have enough radio stations to afford Mozart-only stations, Cage-only stations, Bogart-only TV stations, Underground Movie-only TV stations, etc.”
A still image of Humphrey Bogart, a well-known actor for Casablanca, was reproduced by making brush strokes following the face’s contour to produce an effect of a photographic negative. There are some Chinese characters written in white over the face. Below are cars and human faces, repeated horizontally with their left and right inverted continuously so that they are unfolded like a film roll. In his 1965 essay Electronic Video Recorder, Nam June Paik added his idea about laser as follows: “Because of WHF of LASER, we will have enough radio stations to afford Mozart-only stations, Cage-only stations, Bogart-only TV stations, Underground Movie-only TV stations, etc.”
