Marcel Duchamp

artwork and then they both began a relationship together. They both lived together in San Francisco, In 1939, Frida went to go live in Paris, she showed her art there and met a few artist as well. They became friends and the artist names were; Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso. Later that year she had a divorce with Diego, While she was living there she did a her famous artwork that is called "The Two Frida's," the artwork had to Frida's sitting side by side. They both had different dresses and…

objective rather than objectified. These themes of liberation in Duchamp’s painting inadvertently advocates for the first wave of feminism, the suffrage movement that began in the 1920s for the right to vote. Through brave artistic experimentation, Duchamp has taken the nude outside of the perspective of a heterosexual male and towards a rational exploration of the human body’s capacity to interact with its surrounding…

Falling Cigarettes Installation, made by the artist Sydney Kim in 2015, is a unique sculpture made from objects seen as trash to create a masterpiece with an impactful meaning. Kim creates an artwork that is immediately striking to the viewer and causes one to contemplate the message shown from the sculpture. The cascading cigarettes coming from the burnt cigarette case immediately resembled an explosion of some sort taking place; yet it is more than a physical “detonation”, it represents how…

Sol LeWitt was a leader of the Conceptual Art Movement. According to page 240 in textbook Sol LeWitt he defined Conceptual Art as that which is made to engage the mind of views rather his eye or emotion. Sol LeWitt was born on September 9th, 1928. He was an American, he studied at Syracuse University, School of Visual Arts. He was known for painting, drawing, and sculpture. He became famous with his art in the late 1960s. He has been in several Museums for his work since 1965. He was born in…

Winnie in Happy Days repeats “ What’s the idea?… What does it mean?” Beckett turns the audience into characters in his own play — the same as Didi and Gogo wait for Godot to come, the same audience waits to find a meaning. Marcel Duchamp said: “ if a man takes 50 Campbell’s soup cans and puts them on canvas, it is not the image that concerns us. What interests us is the concept that wants to put 50 Campbell’s soup cans on canvas.” Campbell’s soup cans are just cans but there is…

Compare and Contrast: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884) and The Blue Forest (1925) A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, painted by Georges Seurat in 1884, and The Blue Forest, created by Max Ernst in 1925, share resemblance as well as differences in both the formal elements and the context of art history in which they were created. La Grande Jatte depicts groups of people enjoying their leisure time on La Grande Jatte. Seurat was a Neo-Impressionist artist, who was fascinated with the scientific…

spiritualism which led to her being influenced by art movements such as DADA/Surrealism. Schiaparelli gained entrance into the creative circle, through the wife of Francis Picabia, Gabriel Buffet-Picabia , which included artists such as Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. Even though her couture house was short lived, she created masterpieces, including the ‘Lobster Dress’, ‘Tears Dress’, ‘Shoe Hat’ and ‘Skeleton Dress’, which were all produced in collaboration with Salvador Dalí. In addition to that,…

Man Ray Ray Man was born on August 27th, 1890, as Emmanuel Radnitzky. Radnitzky was the son of Jewish Immigrants who were living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Later moving to New York City with his family, Radnitzky was an avid painter and also studied art, engineering, and architecture. Somewhere during his time in New York, Radnitzky took up the fictitious name of Man Ray. It wasn’t until around 1915 that he became interested in pursing photography. He set aside his other artwork forms and…

The minimalist movement was started in the early 1960’s in the heart of New York. This movement stemmed as a reaction to the Abstract Expressionism movement. Many temporary names were used before the name Minimalist stuck. When the movement first appeared to the world, names such as “A.B.C. Art”, “Reductive Art”, “Literalism”, “Systematic Painting”, and “Art of the Real” were used to try and describe such an indescribable piece of work. We can only theorize why the current name stuck around, but…

Transcendentalism is a movement created in the nineteenth century, influenced by romanticism, that mainly focuses on the idea of individuality and the connection between man, the universe, and nature. It was started by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an author and essayist, who lived in the 1800s. Three ideas that are important to this movement are imagination, insight, and inspiration. According to transcendentalists, these are all gifts from God and are to be regarded highly. Art, poetry, literature, and…