Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. His output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. Duchamp advised modern art collectors such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period.
A playful man, Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much by writing but through subversive actions such as dubbing a urinal "art" and naming it Fountain. He produced relatively few artworks, while moving quickly through the avant-garde circles of his time.
“All in all, 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,” said Duchamp.
Born on July 28, 1887, in Blainville, brother of the artist Raymond Duchamp-Villon and the painter Jacques Villon, Duchamp began to paint in 1908. After producing several canvases in the current mode of Fauvism, he turned toward experimentation and the avant-garde, producing his most famous work, Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) in 1912. Portraying continuous movement through a chain of overlapping Cubistic figures, the painting caused a furor at New York City's famous “Armory Show” in 1913.
Duchamp painted very little after 1915, although he continued until 1923 to work on his masterpiece, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, an abstract work, also known as The Large Glass — composed in oil and wire on glass — that was enthusiastically received by the Surrealists.
In sculpture, Duchamp pioneered two of the main innovations of the 20th-century kinetic art and ready-made art. His "ready-mades" consisted simply of everyday objects, such as a urinal and a bottle rack. His Bicycle Wheel, an early example of kinetic art, was mounted on a kitchen stool.
After his short creative period, Duchamp was content to let others develop the themes he had originated; his pervasive influence was crucial to the development of Surrealism, Dada and Pop art.
Duchamp became an American citizen in 1955. He died in Paris on October 1, 1968.
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(Biography provided by David Barnett Gallery)
1960s Dada Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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1960s Dada Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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1960s Dada Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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1960s Surrealist Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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20th Century Surrealist Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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1920s Surrealist Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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1940s Surrealist Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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2010s Expressionist Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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1960s Surrealist Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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1960s Surrealist Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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1970s Surrealist Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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1960s Contemporary Marcel Duchamp Figurative Prints
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