When many people think of art, they usually think of paintings and sculptures. A lot of the art movements like Expressionism, Dadaism, Cubism, Existentialism, etc. art has evolved in many ways that we as the audience, see it differently. Most of these movements during the last twentieth century were painting or images but within the twentieth century. Some artist decided to go a bit further to create some new terms for art. These two artists have stood out in term of making a unique artwork that changed the way we perceive art, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917) and Robert Rauschenberg’s Bed (1959). Both artist’s works share similarities with each other like using the everyday object, but both of their artwork’s meaning are different and have
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They both used objects for the purpose of challenging that art is more than just painting. Marcel Duchamp’s decision to make Fountain was to show that anything that someone makes can be art which was why he initialized the urinal with R. Mutt; Robert Rauschenberg wanted to show that by adding objects like pillow and blanket to make the work more three-dimensional than if you were to just paint a three-dimensional pillow and blanket. He wanted to the image to reach out to the people. Another similarity they both share is that they both invented a new term for their style of art. Duchamp’s new term that he used to describe Fountain was called readymade. Rauschenberg’s came up with his own term of assemblage which he called combine. While they both wanted to change the idea of what art as is about and how it can stick out of the …show more content…
A year later decided to go for a new approach he created his first readymade. This and many other readymades had started to ask many questions like if it's good or bad art, even though many have question other artist’s work before readymades. In The Creative Act, Duchamp says “What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion.” [1] The introduction of this readymade brought along all these questions especially for the spectators who seen Fountain for the first time in 1917 and questioned whether it’s considered art at all. Some would argue that it is considered art while other wouldn’t agree but it depends on how they read it which Duchamp was trying to aim. The 1914.pdf, ‘This [readymade] allowed him to leap past old aesthetic questions of craft, medium, and taste (“is it good or bad painting or sculpture?”) to new questions that were potentially ontological (“what is art?”), epistemological (“how do we know it?”), and institutional (“who determines it?”).’ [2] Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, proves that his readymades are art even if it just urinal because people can argue that it can be good or bad but no matter the reason he created this readymade was to prove that anything that someone claims as art is still
They both used objects for the purpose of challenging that art is more than just painting. Marcel Duchamp’s decision to make Fountain was to show that anything that someone makes can be art which was why he initialized the urinal with R. Mutt; Robert Rauschenberg wanted to show that by adding objects like pillow and blanket to make the work more three-dimensional than if you were to just paint a three-dimensional pillow and blanket. He wanted to the image to reach out to the people. Another similarity they both share is that they both invented a new term for their style of art. Duchamp’s new term that he used to describe Fountain was called readymade. Rauschenberg’s came up with his own term of assemblage which he called combine. While they both wanted to change the idea of what art as is about and how it can stick out of the …show more content…
A year later decided to go for a new approach he created his first readymade. This and many other readymades had started to ask many questions like if it's good or bad art, even though many have question other artist’s work before readymades. In The Creative Act, Duchamp says “What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion.” [1] The introduction of this readymade brought along all these questions especially for the spectators who seen Fountain for the first time in 1917 and questioned whether it’s considered art at all. Some would argue that it is considered art while other wouldn’t agree but it depends on how they read it which Duchamp was trying to aim. The 1914.pdf, ‘This [readymade] allowed him to leap past old aesthetic questions of craft, medium, and taste (“is it good or bad painting or sculpture?”) to new questions that were potentially ontological (“what is art?”), epistemological (“how do we know it?”), and institutional (“who determines it?”).’ [2] Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, proves that his readymades are art even if it just urinal because people can argue that it can be good or bad but no matter the reason he created this readymade was to prove that anything that someone claims as art is still