Marcel Duchamp

especially language itself. Often there will be a combination of such forms. Conceptual art has had a determining effect on the thinking of most artists."1 - Tony Godfrey, 1998. Starting with Marcel Duchamp, who can be considered as a standout amongst the most essential artists of the twentieth century. Marcel Duchamp was born in 1887, his disputable work and staggering ideas driving the work overwhelmed the art scene and flipped around it, he brought up issues about the style of art, the…

One art piece talked a lot about in this film is the urinal that Marcel Duchamp titled Fountain. Roger Scruton made it very clear throughout the film that he did not understand this creation, and that Marcel Duchamp used it to make a mockery out of art. It is hard to see how a urinal could become such a highly acclaimed art piece that sparked the start of several strange art pieces that has…

the creation of art were reflected in the variety of artistic movements that defined the period between 1900 and 1980. Two different pieces that encompass varied approaches to art are Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso and Fountain by Marcel Duchamp. Both of these works are largely influential in the span of modern art for their innovation in representation and method of depiction. Pablo Picasso is perhaps one of the principal artists that pioneered Cubism during the twentieth century—…

Emmanuel Radantzki best known as Ray Man born on August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but raised in Brooklyn New York. Was an American visual artist, painter, filmmaker and photographer. Raised by two Jewish immigrants from Russia, Ray Man’s father Melach Radnitsky worked in a garment factory and ran a small tailoring business from home with his family and his mother Manya Radnitsky as a seamstress. Radnitsky being the oldest sibling has one younger brother and two sisters following…

author believes that Dada shows a sense of rationality. Surrounding the irrational thought of the war’s insurmountable deaths, artists took to verse and canvas in order to create a lucid thought of anarchy. Prior to World War 1, visual artists Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali were part of the Futuristic movement, but post-war dystopia fueled the direction of their craft to an iconoclastic realm of metaphor and realm of…

create, which derive from social and political history. Artists in completely different eras can experience similar events that potentially create analogous products. An artist connection that I find interesting is Marcel Duchamp’s influence on the choreographer, Merce Cunningham. Duchamp, as a Dada master of the early 19th century inspired Cunningham’s work, Walkaround Time. The set design and the overall movement quality of the work was inspired by Duchamp's piece, The Bride Stripped Bare of…

Popular culture, or Pop Art was a time when simple objects of everyday life were made into fine art, but more often Pop art is a statement on mass advertising and the customer culture after WWII. It also was a means to demonstrate against future conflicts as well. During the world’s recovery of WWII magazines and newspapers were full of advertisements of what to buy, and how the perfect house hold should look like. People tried to live above their means in order to fulfil what they thought they…

Determining What Comprises Art Art is commonly considered a beautiful painting or sculpture in a gallery for public view. However, not all art fit into the perfect mold of what we imagine. Marcel Duchamp used a urinal to create his artwork "Fountain, with the words "R. Mutt 1917" inscribed (Jacobus and Martin 372). Is Duchamp’s "Fountain" any less art than da Vinci 's "Mona Lisa"? Investigating the composition of art and looking at alternative arts may aid in understanding. To be considered…

Marcel Duchamp, a revolutionary twentieth century artist, once said, “Alchemy is a kind of philosophy, a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding” (Duchamp). This quote is the simplest definition of alchemy. Alchemy is a concept that explains what is going on around us. More importantly, it provides an explanation for what we have always been told to believe. It dates back as far as the Renaissance period, and while similar to sciences, was not at first considered a science due to…

concept of minimalism that change people’ s way of appreciating artworks. It make the audience to think harder ,or remind their existence. This idea is also applied to Abstract Art. The “Bird in space" allows you to capture the spirit of a bird. What Duchamp did was also to bring “ ready made object ” into a revolutionary category. The importance of Bauhaus was the combination of aesthetic design and practicability and…