Duchamp was raised in Blainville-Crevon, northern France, in a family of artists. He was born in 1887 to Eugene and Lucie Duchamp. His family was fascinated by the works of famous French artists at the time such as impressionist, Claude Monet, which can be seen represented in some of Duchamp’s earliest works depicting the French countryside. In 1904 following his older brothers Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp went to Paris to master painting at the Adacedemie Julian. Studying art in Paris during the early 1900’s was an ideal location to explore the ideas of modern trends in the art world.
While at the academy, Duchamp studied art concepts such as Fauvism, Cubism, and Impressionism. He was fascinated by the new approaches …show more content…
He looked to replace the value of beauty in art with a more reasonable and realistic approach in his development of readymade art. In 1915 Duchamp left Paris for New York, where he began to produce his first readymade pieces. These works include Bicycle Wheel (1913), Bottle Rack (1914), Prelude to a Broken Arm (1964), and his most famous and radical piece, Fountain (1917). By signing these simple everyday objects, Duchamp was challenging the way in which the world sees art as he was laying claim to manufactured …show more content…
While he continually influenced minimalist and conceptual artists with his revolutionary approach to how the world should see art he in his last twenty years he secretly spent his time creating his final piece Etant donnes (1946-66). The diorama was viewed through two eyeholes, depicting a nude woman, presumably dead, holding a lit gas lamp in a mountainous landscape. This final piece stunned viewers with its shocking realism and mysterious meaning. Although Duchamp’s final piece directed away from his most acknowledged readymade works, his radical critique of art influenced artist for generations to come. His movement against the extreme and redundant importance attributed to works of art made him a favorite in the eyes of future artist such as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ai WeiWei. The way in which Duchamp challenged the way in which we see art paved the way for the wave of artists leaving the path of a conventional, commercial artistic
While at the academy, Duchamp studied art concepts such as Fauvism, Cubism, and Impressionism. He was fascinated by the new approaches …show more content…
He looked to replace the value of beauty in art with a more reasonable and realistic approach in his development of readymade art. In 1915 Duchamp left Paris for New York, where he began to produce his first readymade pieces. These works include Bicycle Wheel (1913), Bottle Rack (1914), Prelude to a Broken Arm (1964), and his most famous and radical piece, Fountain (1917). By signing these simple everyday objects, Duchamp was challenging the way in which the world sees art as he was laying claim to manufactured …show more content…
While he continually influenced minimalist and conceptual artists with his revolutionary approach to how the world should see art he in his last twenty years he secretly spent his time creating his final piece Etant donnes (1946-66). The diorama was viewed through two eyeholes, depicting a nude woman, presumably dead, holding a lit gas lamp in a mountainous landscape. This final piece stunned viewers with its shocking realism and mysterious meaning. Although Duchamp’s final piece directed away from his most acknowledged readymade works, his radical critique of art influenced artist for generations to come. His movement against the extreme and redundant importance attributed to works of art made him a favorite in the eyes of future artist such as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ai WeiWei. The way in which Duchamp challenged the way in which we see art paved the way for the wave of artists leaving the path of a conventional, commercial artistic