"There is no solution because there is no problem".
It was the fifties and sixties when Duchamp was rediscovered and suddenly became identified as being a major point of reference for all the new art movements Cubism, Fauvism, Dadaism, and Surrealism of the 20th century. (Thames and Hudson, 15) For the longest time Duchamp's work was difficult to obtain and conveying the meanings of his work was an equally demanding task .It is here where the difficulty of understanding Duchamp and his work begins .
In a writing directed towards Duchamp, T.S. Eliot in his essay on "Traditional and the Individual Talent, writes "the more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in .
him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the .
mind digest and transmute the passions which are materials" (Cantz 43). This statement .
describes Duchamp very well yet very subtly. When focusing on the word transmute, which could easily be substituted for transform but instead transmute is exceptionally fitting in terms of Duchamp and his works. Transmute is the act of change in form, but if you deconstruct the word further, it is change and mute which is defined as silent or .
unspoken. Looking further into the quote "passions which are materials" can be translated .
to Duchamp's erotic content conveyed in his works and as a symbolism he attaches to his works. .
As a whole, the quote can be looked at with underlying meaning establishing Marcel Duchamp's silent change and presentation of erotic, personal mystery, and symbolism that accompanies his works. Further explanation of the underlying meanings and the silence in which they are brought to Duchamp's work is primarily in his "readymade" series that will be looked upon and analyzed.
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Much like the quotation by T.S. Eliot, there is much to understand and investigate.
about Marcel Duchamp' s work. Before addressing the particular works of Duchamp the language and personal mystery that Duchamp introduces to his work will be evaluated.
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Two artists which have succeeded in representing their artworks and ideas throughout the art world by testing boundaries and thinking outside of the box, are Marcel Duchamp and Damien Hirst. Marcel Ducahamp's art works achieve the representation of his ideas as he is an established Dadaist artist, which means his works have the intent to oppose all the norms of bourgeois culture and art forms, making dada, anti-dada. ... In search of an alternative to representing objects in paint, Duchamp began presenting objects themselves as art. ... Another work of Marcel Duchamp that represents hi...
To help show you the differences between these two movements I will use one example of each movement, as a Dada example I will use Marcel Duchamp and his work "The Fountain" and for Surrealism, Salvador Dali and his painting "The Persistence Of Memory". ... Marcel Duchamp's three dimensional piece "The Fountain" is not what many people would call a great piece of art. "The Fountain" is what Duchamp referred to as a readymade. ... With Dali's painting something you wouldn't see as realistic, it is also hard to picture Duchamp's work with a fitting surrounding. ... As...
This essay contextualizes Marcel Duchamp's Etant Donne's (1946-1966) to Man Ray's Le Violin d'Ingres (1924), both of whom are modernist practitioners, in relation to the Modernist concept of the Anti-Aesthetic. ... Etant Donnes by Marcel Duchamp is an interactive sculpture where viewers firstly face a rustic and antiquated looking wooden door (figure 1) with a peephole (figure 2) in an empty room within the Philadelphia museum. ... Instead of the classical and modest pose used in conventional nudes at that time, Duchamp has posed the nude model in an awkward and highly sex...
For example, a urinal is seen as something functional in its natural environment; yet when Marcel Duchamp placed a urinal in an art exhibition in 1913 and called it Fountain, it was transformed into sculpture. Duchamp himself described the conventions by which we measure Art today, saying, "It is we who have given the name "art" to religious things; the word itself doesn't exist among "primitives." ...
These new developments in technology and in particular the works of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, inspired artists such as Umberto Boccioni, Marcel Duchamp and Giocomo Balla. ... Marcel Duchamp, an artist who's work spans over several art "movements", was greatly inspired by the work of Etienne-Jules Marey, and his particular form of chronophotography. ... It was based directly on the multiple exposure photographs produced by Marey, and Duchamp writes himself of how he was inspired by this work, "in one of Marey's books, I saw an illustration of how he indicated people...
Her friends and admirer were among the most infamous of names such as; Picasso, Kandinsky ,and Marcel Duchamp. ... Frida's first exhibition was in 1938 in New York at the Julien Levy Gallery , where after 2 more were held in Paris, all were set up by Andre Breton, the surrealist poet, and Marcel Duchamp. ...