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Marcel Duchamp
• Cubism
• Dada• Readymade
• Iconoclast
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Nude Descending
Staircase, Cubism,
1912
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• Influenced by
Picasso’s Cubism
• With Picasso the
subject is seen fromdifferent points of
view.
•ere the subject isdepicted in motion.
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• e was influenced bythe photo!raphs of"uybrid!e.
• "uybrid!e wasinterested in usin!photo!raphy to showthe fi!ure in motion.
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Muybridge
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• Here is a strobe lightphoto of Duchampdescending a staircase.
• It was made ears afterthe painting to illustratehis intention.
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• #he paintin! was
rejected by Cubists
because it used
cubism for a differentpurpose.
• Duchamp then
rejected cubism.
• e would soon reject
all established styles.
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• #his wor$ was shown atthe famous %rmory showof &'&( in )ew *or$.
• #he show showcased
modern art to %merica.• #he press had a field+day
critici,in! the wor$.
• #hey called it an
-eplosion in a shin!lefactory./
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Dada
• Dada is a movement0 not a style.
• It be!an as a reaction to middle+class
values0 and the insanity of WWI.
• It be!an as a literary movement0 but soon
included the other arts.
• It is meant to shoc$0 and resulted in wor$sthat are irrational0 confrontational0 and
even absurd.
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Dada
• Dada is based on chance0 and not reasonor emotion li$e the art styles that camebefore it.
• Dada is anti+art0 anti+beauty0 anti+form0and anti+traditional.
• Duchamp became the unofficial leader of
Dada in the visual arts.• is wor$ provo$es the viewer to as$ the
1uestion2 -what is art3/.
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Dada
• In Duchamp’s wor$ the idea is more
important than the product0 or even the
process.
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!iccle "heel, Dada,
191#
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$eadmade
• %n industrial,mass produced
ob&ect that ise'hibited as art.
• It is not a newob&ect but on for
which a new ideahas beencreated.
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• %ccording toDuchamp(stheor an artist
needed to dotwo things toan ob&ect inorder to ma)e
art.1. Change its
conte't.
2. Displace itsfunction.
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• Duchamp said hecreated it for his ownamusement.
• It is art that mo*es.• It is also
interacti*e.
• It is similar to ob&ects
used to demonstratelaws of phsics+
1. angular momentum
2. Centrifugal force
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• Duchampstudied phsicsas a hobb
while wor)ingin a librar.
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!ottle $ac), 191
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!ottle $ac), 191
• #his was an ordinary rac$
4mass produced5 for
dryin! bottles.
• It became art when hechose it.
• e put it in his studio then
in a !allery 4chan!ed its
contet5.
• e didn’t use it to dry
bottles 4displaced its
function5.
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!ottle $ac), 191
• #his is a ready+made.
• 6y choosin! it0
ima!inin! it as art0
and showin! it in anehibition0 it became
art.
• e even chose itrandomly 4Dada5.
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In ad*ance of !ro)en %rm, 191-
• he title suggests
something disabling
and msterious.
• Duchamp created a new
idea for a banal ob&ect.
• he idea helps to ma)e
it art.
• here is no s)ill or
techni/ue in*ol*ed.
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0ountain, 191
• #he subject is really %esthetics.
• %esthetics is the
philosophy of art andbeauty.
• Duchamp wants the
viewer to loo$ at it
and consider what artreally is.
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• #he title reverses thefunction of the object.
• e si!ned it0 as artistsoften do to their wor$0for the purpose ofauthentication.
• In doin! so he ismoc$in! the traditions7 practices of artists.
• #his is what aniconoclast does.
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• e submitted thewor$ to an unjuried
show.• 8njuried means allwor$ submitted to ashow are hun!without jud!ementabout 1uality or taste.
• #he !roup han!in!the show 49ociety forIndependent %rtists5
considered it tooshoc$in! 7 distastefulto han!.
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Fountain – exhibited underthe pseudonym R. Mutt
• Duchamp defended the piece in the ma!a,ine
The Blind Man0 4which he edited50 with these
words2
"Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the
fountain or not has no importance. He chose. He
took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its
useful significance disappeared under a new title
and point of view ...[creating] a new thought for
that obect."
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L.H.O.O.Q ,1919
Pronounced in
French the title
of the work
phoneticallymakes a oke out
of !a "inci#s
masterpiece.
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L.H.O.O.Q was a
direct attack on$enaissance art,and the standardsand con%entions itrepresented.
He put a moustacheon the &ona Lisa.
Like a %andal heattacks traditional%iews of art and'eauty.
(his is e)actly thekind of thin* aniconoclast does.
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Young Man and
Girl in Spring
Duchamp
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#hree 9tandard 9toppa!es
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• !uchamp dropped three threads, each a meterlong, on to the same number of russian bluepieces of canvas.
• #hen they were stuck to the surfaces without anyadustments to the curves that were determined bychance.
• He then cut up the cloth and stuck it to glass
plates, finally encasing them in a wooden bo$.• #hree wooden "rulers," cut following the same
curves, were then added.$amire3 #-4
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• #he objects were meant to moc$ standards.
• is wor$ po$es fun at the standard meter0 an
actual object0 $ept in the International ;ffice of
"easurements and Wei!hts in Paris.
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• Duchamp said that 3 Standard Stoppages
opened the wa 5to escape from those
traditional methods of e'pression longassociated with art.6
• Duchamp called most art 7retinal painting5
8art designed for the lu'uriance of the ee.
• $etinal painting re/uired formal intelligence
and a s)illful hand on the part of the artist.
• he Stoppages depended on chance which,
parado'icall, the 5standardi3ed.5
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)etwor$ of 9toppa!es0 &'&:
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• he wor) is created with chance and randomacts.
• he 0au*ist painting oung :an and ;irl inSpring, 1911 is cropped with blac) paint.
• he artist then uses the tracings of hreeStandard Stoppages to create a networ) of
lines.• He numbers the lines.
• In doing so he creates a new wor) bincorporating two old ones.
• his wor) was also used to plan a futurewor).
• It contains a scale plan for <arge ;lass.
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he <arge ;lass,191-82#
• he wor) is painted on
glass.
• !ecause the wor) is
transparent it incorporatesthe real world.
• It was bro)en during
shipment.
• Duchamp was not upset= he
considered this randomchance e*ent the finishing
touch.