Readymades of Marcel Duchamp

All artworks have some type of value placed on them, be it by society or by the artist themself. Here, I will be discussing three artworks that all hold significant values, some different and some the same. Two of the works I looked at were readymades by Marcel Duchamp; ‘Fountain’, created in 1917, and ‘L.H.O.O.Q.’ in 1919. My other selected work is one of Picasso’s most famous oil paintings, ‘Guernica’. Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ remains to be one of the most influential artworks of the 20th century. In order to challenge the boundaries between high and low art, Duchamp submitted a urinal that he removed from a bathroom to an open submission art exhibition. The work is the most famous of Duchamp’s readymades, artworks that utilise objects that the artist did not create, the original of which has since been lost. Duchamp created the work in 1917, and the piece consists of a white porcelain urinal that has been flipped upside-down and signed with the name ‘R Mutt’.…

Marcel Duchamp is a French surrealist artist, and widely known as a sculptor and a painter who has been involved in the Dada movement. He strongly sought to decipher the world in new ways by appropriating the normalities of life as to form various perspective on this one object, which challenges the fixed ideals of the artworld as well as questioning the definition of art. His artmaking process involve readymades where ordinary manufactured objects that the artist select and modify, as an…

Marcel Duchamp a pioneer of Dada, a movement that questioned expectations about what art should look like or made. Duchamp found success in Paris as a painter but he was interested other ideas. Looking for a difference to represent objects, Duchamp began presenting objects as art. Duchamp selected mass produce that were commercially available, mostly utilitarian objects and he label them as art. Duchamp claim to have chosen everyday objects based of visual indifference by doing so, Duchamp build…

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada Marcel Duchamp is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His importance even reaches until today. Duchamp not only contributed beautiful artworks, but he also changed the definition of art. He used art to raise questions about art and society. He is a rebel and a revolutionary in terms of art. Early art and…

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.…

of art? Marcel Duchamp’s practice of art was needed in order to open more doors and allow people to be open minded about the concept of art, as people are today. For instance, today art can range anywhere from “Le penseur”, a marvelous bronze sculpture of a nude man that sits on a pedestal made of stone with his chin on his hand, sculpted by Auguste Rodin, meant to represent the deep thoughts of philosophy, to “Lobster Telephone”,…

o The Fountain- Rejected by the Society of Independent Artist’ Salon in New York, Marcel Duchamp pioneered the use of ‘readymades’ as an artistic form. The Fountain became one of the most challenging pieces of artwork from the twentieth-century it incurred the debate what constitutes as art is it the object or the concept. o Another example of Duchamp’s work is Mona Lisa L.H.O.O.Q. As can be seen in the image it seems he has vandalized the image with a beard and a moustache Duchamp creates…

When one thinks about approach, words like method, creation, and technique come to mind. The different approaches to the creation of art were reflected in the variety of artistic movements that defined the period between 1900 and 1980. Two different pieces that encompass varied approaches to art are Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso and Fountain by Marcel Duchamp. Both of these works are largely influential in the span of modern art for their innovation in representation and method of…

Artist as individuals have the ability to create exciting things using everyday objects. Marcel Duchamp a French member of the dada movement, Rosalie Gascoigne a contemporary Australian (died in1999), El Anatsui a contemporary West African, and Fiona Hall a contemporary Australian, they are all artists who work with mundane materials to create phenomenal pieces of work. Artist create their works within the agencies of the world, their audience and artworks through their practice.We can interpret…

in 1916 to 1922, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire. It favored being against normal societal actions. Artists of Dadaism included Marcel Duchamp, Antonin Artaud, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dali. “Dada is what you can make out of yourself” (Hausmann, 1968) “Dada is a state of mind that can be revealed in any conversation whatever, so that you are compelled to say: this man is a DADAIST—that man is not; the Dada Club consequently has members all over the world, in…