Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp was a French artist who worked in painting and sculpture and was also an accomplished chess player, living from 1887 to 1968. He is significant because his innovative approaches to art fundamentally challenged and changed how people thought about what art could be.
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- Born
- 28 July 1887
- Died
- 2 October 1968
- Works
- 100
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- Dokumentation über Marcel Duchamp
- Marsel Dushan
- Man Ray
- Marcel Duchamp : drawings, etchings for the Large Glass, ready-mades
- Conspiratorial laughter
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Acting · Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
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, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define…
Known for
- Duchamp, la baronne et le mystère de l'urinoir2024
- Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible — Self - Artist (archive footage)2020
- Paris: The Luminous Years2010
- Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable2009
- Hi-Fi
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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp ( UK: /ˈdjuːʃɒ̃/, US: /djuːˈʃɒ̃, djuːˈʃɑːmp/; French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New York City, where he spent the last 25 years of his life.
Duchamp was the first artist to elevate a urinal to the status of an art form. For his talk at the American Federation of the Arts in Houston, "On the Creative Act," for which he labeled himself a 'mere artist,' Duchamp said, "Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist, on the one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity...if we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the esthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All his decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out."
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