Is Art Utilitarian Marcel Duchamp

Is art utilitarian? How does the work of Marcel Duchamp challenge this idea?

I personally do not believe so; I think anything can be art. It is simply in the eyes of the viewer to decide whether it’s worthy enough or not to be described as true art. Duchamp believed in Dada(ism), which basically meant show the absurdity of the world and have nothing to do with it. His idealism of being a Dada(ist) artist was to make Ready-Mades. As we all saw in the video, he used simple objects such as snow shovels to showcase as art, but truly as an anti-art. The name used for shovel art was “In Advance of a Broken Arm”. That name alone was mocking and taunting the idealism of art. He distanced art from being handicrafted into a conceptual process.

Is art simply skill, or is it something more?
If a person has a creative imagination but does not have specific skills pertaining to drawing or painting, that doesn’t restrict the limit of what they can use as a symbolic idea of art in their mind. Art is a very imaginative tool; it is not the object that guides us, but our imagination that the object has led us to be guided by. It is artists that utilize this concept that seem to be the most successful.

What did Henri Matisse have to say regarding a great artist? Do you agree?

Matisse stated, “A great artist is someone who allows us to see the world in a way that we have never seen it before” Yes, I completely agree. I believe that because, as humans we experience life very fast paced. Rarely do we take the time and see something for what it truly is, even simple objects. To have someone take the time off solely to allow us to see objects for what they truly are in a different perspective, and adding a creative twist is astounding.

Should art reflect the reality of our moment? How does Duchamp's work do