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
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Duchamp: Marginality and Modernism and The Questioning of the Androgynous Self Both Dada and Surrealism cannot be understood as just new art movements‚ but also social ones. During the 1960s‚ the whole notion of what constituted art underwent a profound change‚ accompanying this questioning of the aesthetics of the art object; this was also a time when massive acceleration took place in the extent to which sex was discusses and sexual images‚ produced. One of the main developments that came out
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Marcel Duchamp worked from the beginning of the 20th century through the 1960s influencing the art world in ways that no other artists can claim. He had a part‚ even if it was small in nearly every art movement from the cubists to the futurists to the dada to surrealism and through to pop art‚ creating his own genre intermitted called ready made art. Duchamp was a French Artist born in 1887 and moved to Paris in 1904 to pursue his career as a painter. Over the next twenty years he did his most
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the branches put out by Duchamp have borne fruit. So widespread have been the effects of his life that no individual may lay claim to be his heir‚ no one has his scope or his restraint.” Marcel Duchamp was a leading‚ unorthodox figure who challenged all frames of reference‚ attempted to always anticipate new contexts‚ and altered the stakes of the game (the art world) radically‚ over and over again. Not only is he one of the most influential figures in the history of modern art but so is his work‚ the
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what happened to it? The 1917 urinal aka Fountain was originally put on display during a show promoting Avant grade art. Avant grade means advance guard which is a military term. Avant garde was art movement which originated in France in 1850 in order to open the eyes and more so‚ make fun of or shock the average or elite viewer. To put an everyday‚ ordinary item on display and call it art. For many of the upper class directors of the showing‚ this piece was ridiculous and they did not understand it
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different responses to this. In the 20th century‚ Marcel Duchamp created the term “readymade”. A “readymade” was an ordinary mass-produced object transformed into an artwork merely by the choice of an artist. Duchamp was the inspiration for the Conceptual art movement and challenged the notion of art as being aesthetically beautiful. In contrast‚ the textile designer William Morris rejected industrial design and lead the revival of handcrafted art. His textile patterns
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visit the “Duchamp to Pop” exhibition. The theme of this exhibit was to demonstrate Marcel Duchamp’s influence and sway over the development and emergence of Pop Art and its artists. Besides many pieces by Marcel Duchamp‚ there was a variety of other artworks on view by artists such as George Herms‚ Claes Oldenburg‚ Tom Wesselmann‚ Andy Warhol‚ Robert Rauschenberg‚ and Jim Dine. This exhibit was displayed in a space of three rooms‚ where the first room was greatly focused on Marcel Duchamp but also
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Jessica Brown Final Paper Art 104i Marcel Duchamp “The Fountain” To begin to understand Marcel Duchamp’s specific piece of art “The Fountain” I delved deep into the history behind the Dada movement‚ from which Duchamp thrived. This began with an in depth look at Western Europe during World War I‚ The Dada’s reaction to the World War‚ and more specifically Marcel Duchamp’s reaction to the World War. As stated in the book‚ “no single event influenced the development of modern as profoundly
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Spanish cubist‚ Marcel Duchamp‚ was a French member of the Dada Movement‚ Rosalie Gascoigne a New Zealand contemporary artist (d.1999)‚ El Anatsui a West African contemporary artist and Fiona Hall a contemporary Australian artist. Artists explore the conceptual frame throughout their practice by endorsing all four key agencies to a successful piece of work. Certain artists use the world to capture the audience’s attention to create
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Duchampian Influence” Marcel Duchamp. In 1913 a French artist mounted a bicycle wheel on a stool‚ and changed the art world forever. Duchamp is arguably the most influential artist of the twenty-century‚ his influence is not always obvious or dominate however the underlying acceptance of radical freedom of action and thought that is concurrent in artists practice can always be traced back to Duchamp. Duchamp was a French artist who was a part of the Dada movement‚ a modern art movement based around
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