All artworks have some type of value placed on them, be it by society or by the artist themself. Here, I will be discussing three artworks that all hold significant values, some different and some the same. Two of the works I looked at were readymades by Marcel Duchamp; ‘Fountain’, created in 1917, and ‘L.H.O.O.Q.’ in 1919. My other selected work is one of Picasso’s most famous oil paintings, ‘Guernica’. Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ remains to be one of the most influential artworks of the 20th century. In order to challenge the boundaries between high and low art, Duchamp submitted a urinal that he removed from a bathroom to an open submission art exhibition. The work is the most famous of Duchamp’s readymades, artworks that utilise objects that the artist did not create, the original of which has since been lost. Duchamp created the work in 1917, and the piece consists of a white porcelain urinal that has been flipped upside-down and signed with the name ‘R Mutt’.
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The piece holds significant artistic value, as it exists as a protest against the exclusion of a urinal from an art exhibition. ‘Fountain’ defied the limitations of art set by society. It doesn’t matter whether or not the artist created every part of the work, the pieces are given a new meaning by the artist. The urinal as an object is not the prominent part of the work, but rather the idea of entering such an object into an art exhibition, signed and
The piece holds significant artistic value, as it exists as a protest against the exclusion of a urinal from an art exhibition. ‘Fountain’ defied the limitations of art set by society. It doesn’t matter whether or not the artist created every part of the work, the pieces are given a new meaning by the artist. The urinal as an object is not the prominent part of the work, but rather the idea of entering such an object into an art exhibition, signed and