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Embodying the intellect of his literary contemporaries Marcel Proust and James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been aptly described by the painter Willem de Kooning as a one-man movement. Jasper Johns has written of his work as the “field where language, thought and vision act on one another.” Duchamp has had a huge impact on twentieth-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists as “retinal” art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted, he said, “to put art back in the service of the mind.”
Born in Normandy in northern France, Duchamp traveled back and forth between Europe and the United States for much of his life. His initial foray into modern art followed the trends of his contemporaries, with his first paintings in the mode of Cézanne and the Impressionists, while after 1910 his work reflects a shift toward Cubism. One of his most important works, Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) (1912; Philadelphia Museum of Art) (a second version of a work on cardboard from 1911), however, reflects Duchamp’s ambivalent re
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Marcel Duchamp
French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
"Duchamp" redirects here. For other uses, see Duchamp (disambiguation).
Marcel Duchamp | |
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Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, 1920–21 | |
| Born | Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (1887-07-28)28 July 1887 Blainville-Crevon, France |
| Died | 2 October 1968(1968-10-02) (aged 81) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Known for | Painting, sculpture, film |
| Notable work | Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) Fountain (1917) The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (1915–1923) LHOOQ (1919) Étant donnés (1946–1966) |
| Movement | Cubism, Dada, conceptual art |
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| Partner(s) | Mary Reynolds (1929–1946) Maria Martins (1946–1951) |
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ;[1]French:[maʁsɛldyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and co
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Fountain (Duchamp)
1917 sculpture by Marcel Duchamp
Fountain is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp in 1917, consisting of a porcelainurinal signed "R. Mutt". In April 1917, an ordinary piece of plumbing chosen by Duchamp was submitted for the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, to be staged at the Grand Central Palace in New York. When explaining the purpose of his readymade sculpture, Duchamp stated they are "everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice."[2] In Duchamp's presentation, the urinal's orientation was altered from its usual positioning.[3][4][5]Fountain was not rejected by the committee, since Society rules stated that all works would be accepted from artists who paid the fee, but the work was never placed in the show area.[6] Following that removal, Fountain was photographed at Alfred Stieglitz's studio, and the photo published in the Dada journal The Blind Man. The original has been lost.
The work is regarded by art historians and
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