 |
Business | Industries | Finance | Tax |
| Index: > A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
|
|||||
| First Prev [ 1 2 ] Next Last |
A USPS stamp depicting visitors to the Armory Show viewing Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 Born Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp in Blainville-Crevon Seine-Maritime in the Haute-Normandie Region of France, he came from an artistic family. Of the six children of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp, four would become successful artists. Marcel Duchamp was the brother of:
Living and working in a studio in Montparnasse, Marcel Duchamp's early works were Post-Impressionist in style but he would become perhaps the most influential of the Dada artists. A student at the Académie JulianThe Academie Julian was an art school in Paris, France. Seen here is a painting of the Academie Julian studio by art student Marie Bashkirtseff. In 1868, the Academie Julian was established by Rodolphe Julian (1839-1902), at the Passage des Panoramas, as, his influence is still strongly felt to this day by contemporary artThis article is part of the Art history series. Pre-historic art Arts of the ancient world European art history Islamic art history Arts of the Far East Contemporary art The term contemporary art encompasses all art being done now. It tends to include artists.
At his eldest brother Jacques' home, in 1911 Marcel and brother Raymond organized a regular discussion group with artists and critics such as Francis PicabiaFrancis-Marie Martinez Picabia ( January 28, 1879 November 30, 1953) was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish father who was an attache at the Cuban legation in Paris, France. Born in Paris, France, he was educated there at, Robert DelaunayRobert Delaunay (born April 12, 1885 in Paris, France; died October 25, 1941 in Montpellier, France), French impressionist artist. Life and work As an artist, Delaunay concentrated on impressionism, while his later works were more abstract, reminiscent of, Fernand Leger and others that soon was dubbed the Puteaux GroupThe Puteaux Group is the name applied to a group of European artists and critics associated with Cubism but because of their unique style, were branded a Cubist offshoot called Orphism. The group was formed around 1911 by gathering regularly to discuss th.
In early years, Duchamp had some contact with the Salon CubistsIn 1903, the first Salon d'Automne (Fall Salon) was organized as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon. The exhibition almost immediately became the showpiece of developments and innovations in 20th century painting and sculp of Paris, but aesthetic as well as political differences precluded closer affiliation. In 19121912 is a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar) Events January 1 Establishment of Republic of China. January 6 New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U. January 17 British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the, he painted Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, in which motion was expressed by successive superimposed images, as in motion pictures. The work was originally slated to appear in Paris, but the Salon Cubists demanded that Duchamp retitle it to avoid possible scandal. Duchamp removed the work from the exhibition entirely, and, in 1913, it went on to create a scandal at the Armory Show in New York City instead; it also spawned dozens of parodies in the years that followed. It was at that show that he met the Dadaist painter Jean Crotti who later married his sister Suzanne.
Politically, Duchamp opposed World War I and identified with Individualist Anarchism, in particular with Max Stirner's philosophical tract The Ego and Its Own, the study of which Duchamp considered the turning point in his artistic and intellectual development.
Duchamp was one of the first artists to use found objects as the basis for his artworks. His work "Fountain" consisted mostly of a ceramic urinal. His work "In advance of a broken arm" consisted of an old snow shovel. Another displayed a bicycle wheel.
Escaping service in the First World War on the pretext of a dubious heart condition, he travelled to the United States, where he befriended Katherine Dreier and Man Ray, with whom he founded the Société Anonyme in 1920. Duchamp's circle also included Louise and Walter Arensberg , Beatrice Wood and fellow Frenchman, Francis Picabia, as well as other avant-garde figures.
Duchamp's parody of the Mona Lisa adds a goatee and moustache. Marcel Duchamp took aim at conventional notions of "high art," "culture" and commodities by presenting mass-produced objects such as a bottle rack or a snow shovel as sculpture. He coupled his visual assaults on "art" with verbal puns: he signed his urinal "R. Mutt," or "armut," German for poverty, and named another piece "L.H.O.O.Q.," a coarse French pun. When the Jury at the 1917 Independents exhibition in New York rejected his urinal as not being art, Beatrice Wood defended him: "The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges."
After 1923 he devoted much of his time to chess but from the mid- 1930s onwards he collaborated with the Surrealists and participated in their exhibitions. Duchamp settled permanently in New York in 1942. From then until 1944, together with Max Ernst and André Breton, he edited the surrealist periodical "VVV", in New York.
The last surviving member of the Duchamp family of artists, in 1967, in Rouen, France, Marcel helped organize an exhibition called "Les Duchamp: Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp." Some of this family exhibition was later shown at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.
Marcel Duchamp died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and is buried in the Rouen Cemetery, in Rouen, Normandy, France.
__NOTOC__
| Politics | Business | Finance |
 |
 |
 |
|