Readymades of Marcel Duchamp

All artworks have some type of value placed on them, be it by society or by the artist themself. Here, I will be discussing three artworks that all hold significant values, some different and some the same. Two of the works I looked at were readymades by Marcel Duchamp; ‘Fountain’, created in 1917, and ‘L.H.O.O.Q.’ in 1919. My other selected work is one of Picasso’s most famous oil paintings, ‘Guernica’. Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ remains to be one of the most influential artworks of the 20th century. In order to challenge the boundaries between high and low art, Duchamp submitted a urinal that he removed from a bathroom to an open submission art exhibition. The work is the most famous of Duchamp’s readymades, artworks that utilise objects that the artist did not create, the original of which has since been lost. Duchamp created the work in 1917, and the piece consists of a white porcelain urinal that has been flipped upside-down and signed with the name ‘R Mutt’.…

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…

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…

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…

When one thinks about approach, words like method, creation, and technique come to mind. The different approaches to 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…

in 1916 to 1922, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire. It favored being against normal societal actions. Artists of Dadaism included Marcel Duchamp, Antonin Artaud, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dali. “Dada is what you can make out of yourself” (Hausmann, 1968) “Dada is a state of mind that can be revealed in any conversation whatever, so that you are compelled to say: this man is a DADAIST—that man is not; the Dada Club consequently has members all over the world, in…

Merging the Traditional and the Modern Introduction Throughout the history of art, a variety of artists made contributions in expanding the definition of art. Some dedicated their energy in a restrained way as a personal practice, some devoted their energy into fiercely challenging the society’s current aesthetic conventions. The two artists I am going to discuss in this essay are Marcel Duchamp and Gerhard Richter. Even though they lived in different time periods, they are both influential to…

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…

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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:…