Marcel Duchamp

Different patterns and rhythms allows one to predict the sense of the world. These elements define an artwork’s design and its artist sentiment. Artist, Marcel Duchamp, and his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, increments the elements of pattern and rhythm within the painting. Duchamp’s interest in machinery evokes his desire of industrial advancement. The utilization of patterns and rhythm create unity within the composition to communicate reassurance to the viewer. Patterns are…

writer, X. J. Kennedy, blatantly introduces the subject of a nude woman. In his poem the speaker is describing an unidentified woman as she travels down a set of stairs. This poem was written as a reaction or response to a painting created by Marcel Duchamp, that was entitled “Nude Descending a Staircase No.2”. Since the poem was a reaction to the art, it is categorized as an ekphrastic piece. In mostly all poems, the writer utilizes various poetic devices to help a reader further understand and…

And, countless other artists from photographers to sculptors flooded into the city (Brahman, Kennan, & Alcaine, 2004). Some of the greatest Dada artists like Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and Kurt Schwitters either moved to Paris or began exhibiting their work within the city during this time (Brahman, Kennan, & Alcaine, 2004). Many of the images created by these artists alienated the viewer in a manner similar to the…

viewer, giving the work endless interpretations. The viewer is able to participate in the creation and in some ways project upon the image what they want to see. By choosing mundane objects that are part of the everyday vocabulary of the viewer Duchamp reframes its meaning, forcing the viewer to then reinterpret and examine the object in a new way, outside of it physical or aesthetic attributes. Most of these objects are ones that one would normally examine closely, but the context forces the…

sociology in 1970. Later, in 1974 Sugimoto “retrained as an artist and received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California” (Wikipedia). His work is influenced by the Dadaist and Surrealist of Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp was a French, “naturalized American” painter, sculptor, and writer. Dadaism was an art movement (“being anti-war”) in the beginning of the twentieth century (Wikipedia). Surrealists were members of a cultural movement in the…

What Danto thinks about art is illustrated by Duchamp, who created art with the very intent of removing an aesthetic value from it. Duchamp did so in an attempt to demonstrate how art goes far beyond aesthetic. Duchamp art validates Danto’s notion that art is an aesthetic process, but an intellectual process, of which meaning and cognitive thought is deeply embedded within. What Danto…

Dada was an anti-art movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland in the early 20th century in 1916 (Young). The term anti-art refers to a rebellion against the war and destruction that had happened years before. It started as a response to World War I and the nationalism that it is believed led to the war (Elza Adamowicz). It was influenced by other avant-garde movements such as Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism (Craft). The name Dada is known to have been selected at random from a dictionary,…

For this sole exhibition was based on the ‘French Relief Society’, Duchamp made an installation constructed from an economical material, this being string. Buying sixteen miles of the material he only ended up using one mile. The string weaved between paintings, it “filled the space of an entire room and was specifically…

Another writer, Alice Rawsthorn, asks what the true definition of an artist is in this modern world, deciding that it can be anyone. Through her piece, “Can Anybody be a Designer?” Rawsthorn discusses “Unnamed,” an exhibition held in South Korea. This exhibition explores innovation in places that one would normally never look; the code involved in a computer virus can be just as majestic as a rainbow barcode where each color signifies one of the four nucleotides of DNA (adenine, thymine, guanine…

avant-garde. The first personal exhibition was held in New York in 1915. In 1918 he began to seriously engage in photography and cinema, experimenting with different technologies (photogram (rayografiya), solarization, and others.). Together with Marcel Duchamp…