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Item No: 25261
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| Keywords: Movement, Nude, Stairs, Staircase, Cubism, Cubist, Futurism, French, Figure, Movement, Motion, Walking, Brown, Ochre, Oil, Modern, Representational, |
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Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968)
Marcel Duchamp, born in Blainville, near Rouen, is the brother of painters Jacques Villon and Suzanne Duchamp, and of the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon. He began his career in 1909 at the Salon des Independants and by 1912 he had passed rapidly through Impressionist, Fauvist, and Expressionist phases to arrive at a form of Cubist-Futurism in Nude Descending a Staircase, one of the most successful works at the New York Armory Show of 1913.
Duchamp settled in New York to paint and earned his living giving French lessons. When the artist Francis Picabia came to New York in 1915, his meeting with Duchamp sparked the New York Dada movement (1915-22) based on principles of inversion, negation, and anti-aestheticism. Between 1915 and 1923, Duchamp worked leisurely on his masterpiece, The Bride Undressed by Her Bachelors, painted on glass and adorned with bits of painted tin. When the painting was completed Duchamp laid down his brush and did not paint again, in order not to repeat" himself. He devoted his time to playing chess and to the creation of "ready-mades," ordinary objects raised to the level of fine art.
Duchamp's twenty paintings are psychologically meaningful, humorous, and curiously disquieting, with witty titles that add to our confusion or enjoyment. Such titles are also given to his "ready-mades," whose principle is that the creation of a work of art is not limited to draughtsmanship, but stems from the imagination and vision of the artist. Although Duchamp had given up painting his influence on the Dadaists, the Surrealist movement and beyond was enormous. His death in Paris in October, 1968, deprived the world of one of the most original personalities of the twentieth century." |
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