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Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp. Challenging Art and Art Definition. A French-American Artist (1887 to 1968) Identified largely as a result of the Dadaist art movement Expanded art beyond the visual Most famous for: Fountain. On Creativity….

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Marcel Duchamp

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  1. Marcel Duchamp Challenging Art and Art Definition

  2. A French-American Artist (1887 to 1968) Identified largely as a result of the Dadaist art movement Expanded art beyond the visual Most famous for: Fountain

  3. On Creativity… Duchamp on Creativity: In 1958 Duchamp said: The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act

  4. Dada Art (In short…) • Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European Avant-Garde in the early 20th Century • Pushing the boundaries of what was/is normal. • Experimental and thinking differently • Began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, approximately • Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. • Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition.

  5. Duchamp’s Fountain (1917)

  6. L.H.O.O.Q (Readymades)- The Bottle Rack- Fountain- The Bicycle Wheel

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