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Marcel Duchamp | Fountain “All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification ..” Do you know, which artist could have said this? That was a citation of Marcel Duchamp, one of the most important artists of the 20th century. In the next few minutes I will give you some informations about the person, who said this quite interesting words. Duchamp‘s life Marcel Duchamp was a French Painter, Object-Artist and Media-performer. Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was born on the 28th July, 1887 in Blainville-Crevon in north-west France and he died in 1968. He was the son of an well-to-do family. His father worked as a successfully notary in the town. The family‘s interests included music, art, literature and they also played a lot of chess. At the age of 15 years Marcel Duchamp started with painting. Two years later he decided to become an artist. Marcel has five sisters and three of them also took their way as an artist. His older brother Gaston became a painter and is known as Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon became a sculptor and his sister became also an artist and got known as Susanne Crotti. So there is no doubt that Duchamp got many creative influences of his family. In 1904 Marcel Duchamp started to study on the Julian academy in Paris. Duchamp‘s style of art You know, every artist has his own style of art. But sometimes the…