Marcel Mauss

Artist as individuals have the ability to create exciting things using everyday objects. Marcel Duchamp a French member of the dada movement, Rosalie Gascoigne a contemporary Australian (died in1999), El Anatsui a contemporary West African, and Fiona Hall a contemporary Australian, they are all artists who work with mundane materials to create phenomenal pieces of work. Artist create their works within the agencies of the world, their audience and artworks through their practice.We can interpret…

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…

While I was still obsessed with my new art assignment, “ somebody” tapped on my window. An alien came to me and wanted me to explain what the thing is we are calling art on the earth. I feel excited to be an art ambassador, but actually right now I am also somewhat uncertain about what is art. If it was in few years ago, when I was still doing more basic drawing training, I might be able to tell you for more certain. But I am happy to answer some. “ Oh, what happened to art at that time?” the…

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…

As an artist we believe it is up to us to push the boundaries of these so called norms. Marcel Duchamp chose to push the boundaries of what is considered art. He decided to take something that was already created for normal everyday use and turn it into art without modifying it in any way other than putting a name on it. At first the idea and…

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada Marcel Duchamp is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His importance even reaches until today. Duchamp not only contributed beautiful artworks, but he also changed the definition of art. He used art to raise questions about art and society. He is a rebel and a revolutionary in terms of art. Early art and…

During the movement there was many pieces created that could be considered the embodiment of the entire movement. But, the ready-mades and pieces created by Marcel Duchamp brought Dada into the spotlight and eventual acceptance into the contemporary art community. One famous piece created by Marcel Duchamp that shocked the world was the ready-made urinal titled, “The Fountain.” The piece was extremely sarcastic in nature and mocked previous sculptors (“Dada Movement, Artist...” 1). The…

Marcel Duchamp a pioneer of Dada, a movement that questioned expectations about what art should look like or made. Duchamp found success in Paris as a painter but he was interested other ideas. Looking for a difference to represent objects, Duchamp began presenting objects as art. Duchamp selected mass produce that were commercially available, mostly utilitarian objects and he label them as art. Duchamp claim to have chosen everyday objects based of visual indifference by doing so, Duchamp build…

Marcel Duchamp is a French surrealist artist, and widely known as a sculptor and a painter who has been involved in the Dada movement. He strongly sought to decipher the world in new ways by appropriating the normalities of life as to form various perspective on this one object, which challenges the fixed ideals of the artworld as well as questioning the definition of art. His artmaking process involve readymades where ordinary manufactured objects that the artist select and modify, as an…

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…