Meet Marcel Duchamp [14 Modern Masters]
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Perhaps more than any modern artist, Marcel Duchamp is responsible for widening the possibilities of art-making by expanding the viewer’s confrontation with an artwork past the purely visual.
Born into a family of artists, Duchamp moved to Paris as a teenager and attended art school briefly before beginning to produce work that reflected the influences of both Fauvism and Cubism.
By 1913, Duchamp had abandoned painting, in the following year he introduced the revolutionary concept of a ‘readymade’ by designing an everyday, industrially made object – such as a snow shovel, bottle rack, or urinal – a work of art.
In association with the provocative Dada movement in New York, Duchamp incorporated linguistic puns, kinetic and optical experiments, and gender and identity bending into his artistic practice.
By pushing the boundaries of what forms art might take, Duchamp permanently altered the traditional role of the artist and the relationship between art and everyday life.
- Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Rotoreliefs (1953), series of 6 offset lithographs printed in color on both sides, edition of 1000, each disk, 7 7/8″ diameter, gift of Rose Fried to the Museum of Modern Art, is on view at the High Museum of Art’s ‘Picasso to Warhol‘ exhibit, October 15th – April 29th.
(c) 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp
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