The Borrowing Of Concepts And Approaches Can Greatly Affect Artists

The borrowing of concepts and approaches can greatly affect artists, their artworks and their audiences. Artists have developed a shared artistic language that allows them to build upon past concepts to produce works that have a profound effect upon the art-world that we call appropriation. The brief but influential movements such as Dada and Avant- garde, whose central figure Marcel Duchamp, viewed technology as a key metaphor of modern society. The artist Duchamp was involved with the avant-garde movements during the modernist period, having experimented with cubist paintings and acted as one of the founders of the Dadaist movement. As an iconoclast, Duchamp soon abandoned even these artistic principles, with the aim of rejecting conventions due to his distaste for retinal art. The ready-made that Duchamp took as part the Dada approach, included engaging the audience through provocation. Some of his works that exemplify the artist’s beliefs include “Advance of Broken Arm” and “L.H.O.O.Q”, which caused heavy controversy over their acceptance as art. By breaking these artistic conventions, Duchamp paved the way for later artists including Damien Hirst, Choi Jeong Hwa, Ai Weiwei and Yasumasa Morimura, who were revolutionary in their own right, having explored new artistic avenues and ideas. All these artists and their works furthered the idea of rejecting artistic tradition, leaving a lasting mark on the face of the modern art world.
Marcel Duchamp’s avant- garde ideas and practice was the first of its kind, having a substantial impact upon the perception and definition of art. The originality of his practice in contemporary art is viewed in the four aspects the artist, artwork and audience/world that influence his thoughts and emotions towards making art. Some of Duchamp’s works that exemplify his beliefs include “Advance of broken Arm” and “L.H.O.O.Q”, which caused heavy controversy over their acceptance as art. “Advance of Broken Arm” which is a readymade – a