Marcel Duchamp

to fit his style and his message. Taking a look at Banksy’s Mona Lisa Shows Her Bum it is a satire of the iconic painting. It shows that every “serious” and “traditional” painting has a fun, possibly crude counterpart. This could also be seen in Marcel Duchamp’s version of the Mona Lisa, which has an added mustache and the letters “L.H.O.O.Q.”, which reportedly stands for “She has a fine Ass.” These two satires undermine the skill and time it took for Leonardo da Vinci to paint the original.…

Abstract Expressionism is like nonrepresentational art in that did not portray a clear defined picture. This type of art was made popular by Jackson Pollock; One example of his art is, “number 1” made in 1949. This type of art used heavy brush strokes or a drip technique used by Jackson Pollock. This movement was a rebellion against cubism, nonrepresentational, surrealism, and dada. It started in New York in the early 1900’s after world war 2 as a new way to look art. Bauhaus…

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Man Ray’s Cadeau (1921, Figure 1) was the artist’s first “readymade,” in addition to being the first piece he made while in Paris. The sculpture’s simple yet provocative form consists of an upright flatiron with several nails glued to its base in a single-file line. Like many of Man Ray’s works, Cadeau has a rich mythology associated with its creation. In this case, the piece was created the day of Man Ray’s first Parisian exhibition, with the help of composer Erik Satie.1 In Man Ray’s words:…

Knowing the difference between a good painting and a bad painting is very difficult, even for an expert. I believe that the paintings should not be precise or real, maybe for some painters it is, in my opinion an artistic creation must be unique, that arises with the purpose of transmitting something special. A good work of art is the one that is difficult to forget, it is as if you enter a gallery full of paintings, and when you finish seeing them all, only a few are engraved in your memory,…

The Circored Project was the beginning of a new technology using the new mini mills. In 1995, Cleveland Cliffs of Cleveland, Ohio partnered with the German Company Lurgi Metallurgie and LTV Steel. The key points to the Circored Project was project managers, changes to the management and design and market turmoil. A project manager must inspire a shared vision, be a good communicator, able to delegate tasks and be great at problem solving skills. Cliff Associates Limited(CAL), Ray von Bitter was…

The Gift of Mauss is about an economic system based on gifts and reciprocity that was common, under different forms, in many “archaic” societies. The author used various ethnographies to develop a new economic theory different from the barter theory and called gift economy. An important compound of this new theory is the reciprocity, but in order to understand what is it for Mauss, the gift economy need to be explained. First, this new kind of economy is based on the exchange of services. This…

The idea of gift giving in the Antebellum South, symbolized one’s stature in their community as it projected wealth, status, and honor. Furthermore, southern men of honor loved to give gifts as much as they could, even if they could not afford it as it gave the illusion that they were wealthier than they actually were. It was very important to men of honor to keep up an illusion they were more important and powerful than they actually were. These interactions were not just limited between men…

t some point during our lives we haven given a gift. Whenever it be a grand gesture, or merely something to say thank you. There is no denying the recipients enjoy great pleasure when receiving the gift. Gift giving is an important part of our lives, we have manifested holidays or specific days designed as excuses to fork out hard earn money for mostly inoperable items such as deep fryers or ties. Scholars believe that as an activity, gift-giving plays as highly important role in the economic…

Eternal Love To the Lighthouse, written by Virginia Woolf, is a novel about the effect relationships have on people’s lives. The first part of the novel The Window is about the Ramsay family and their guests’ time during a 12-hour span period at a summerhouse. All of them have the basic story of considering visiting the lighthouse the next day, but each character has a sub-plot. In the second part of the novel Time Passes, about ten years have gone by. Mrs. Ramsay has passed away, and the rest…