Marcel Duchamp

Surrealist painters and their precursors (84 person items)

"(1887-1968) Étant Donnés (1945-1966)"

People I find Inspiring (104 person items)

"Love him or hate him, but you can't deny his influence on avant-garde and modern art. Marcel began his career as a modernist painter inspired by then fashionable Futurism and Cubism, but after he got panned by critics he decided to move on to some other forms of expression. Now, art can be viewed as two dimensional work consisting of technicality and concept. An art piece can be purely technical simply by being well painted or otherwise built, but without any statement or concept. The other ex"

100 Great Paintings (139 art items)

"Sad Young Man in a Train (1911)"

What is Art? (80 person items)

" Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. He has had an immense impact on 20"

The Moral Imperative of Art (21 art items)

"“Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.”"