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    art movement‚ but instead as a literary movement. Rather than through painting or sculpture‚ Dada is best understood through the text‚ manifestos‚ poetry‚ and magazines produced by the Dadaists. Dada visual art by artists like Francis Picabia‚ Marcel Duchamp‚ or Hans Arp do not rely on traditional formal elements of art‚ but rather on the titles of the works. Dadaists have more in common with their contemporary‚ poet Guillaume Apollinaire‚ than with any painter‚ and they are more concerned with Symbolist

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    Zurich began to discuss art and perform in the Cabaret Voltaire‚ voicing their opinions of disgust about the war. These artists include Hugo Ball‚ Tristan Tzara‚ Jean Arp and others. Marcel Duchamp was a French artists who‚ while also practicing Dada‚ also has works which belong to the surrealist movement. Duchamp is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century‚ he challenged conventional values about art making processes through his subversive actions. Possibly his most famous

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    postmodern thought‚ artists have set to create more shocking and confronting work to distinguish themselves from the rest. Marcel Duchamp was perhaps the first to push the boundaries with his Fountain‚ a urinal in an art gallery‚ which was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th Century by 500 artists and forced his audience to think for themselves. Many artists have followed Duchamp‚ but have had to go to more and more extreme measures to get noticed‚ hence Chris Burden’s Shoot and so on. If Xiao

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    have been the creative vision and influence from cubism‚ conceptual art and dadaism. Deren openly admired Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp‚ with the latter being casted in one of her unfinished films titled Witch’s Cradle (1943). This collaboration with Marcel Duchamp was to produce a film that exhibited the choreographed set of movements between the figure (played by Duchamp) and the camera. The film was intended to be an exploration of the magical qualities of objects in Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of

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    thoughts that drove people to want to think of photography as art. Charlotte Cotton begins to discuss the introduction of conceptual art. The father of conceptual art Marcel Duchamp‚ submitted a factory made urinal to the Armory Show in New York. He wanted to prove that anything could be art‚ if the artist decided it to be. Marcel took something that was already created and made it into art. The judges rejected the piece and it was removed days later. When it comes to photography there isn’t one

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    the 17th century Vanitas still life’s objects have been used in art to create and project meaning – the transience of life. The traditionally realistic style held to this genre has been repeatedly challenged throughout history‚ by artists like Marcel Duchamp‚ Kosuth‚ Pablo Picasso‚ Paul Cezanne and Tom Wessleman. By pushing and ultimately destroying the regulations and boundaries set by tradition‚ these artists have transformed the meaning of art and the purpose of objects in art‚ influencing the

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    The most influential Dadaist artist was the French sculptor Marcel Duchamp. He exhibited what he called ready-mades‚ or common objet that he would submit as works of art‚ such as bicycle wheels or a birdcage. His intent was to ridicule the idea that art had to convey some profound message. Duchamp’s most famous work was Fountain‚ a urinal. It was rejected by the art community when Duchamp first showed it in 1917. But it later became celebrated as a brilliant reflection of

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    different meanings‚ however‚ it is only know that its use is being questioned on whether it is original or just a "carbon copy" of another work. There are a number of artists that are considered "Appropriation Artists". Some of these artists include Marcel Duchamp‚ Yasumasa Morimura‚ and Maria Kozic. Such artists as Edouard Manet‚ Pablo Picasso and Leonardo Da Vinci have inspired these artists to the extent that they have used the "Great Artists’" actual artworks in their own works. Appropriation seemed

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    political‚ social and cultural issues. Concepts are usually reused but shown in different ways. Chosen artists that display this theory and have affected the development of modern art in particular are‚ Edouard Manet‚ Paul Cezanne‚ Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. Manet (b.1832-1883) focused on light and shadow‚ rebelling against the idea of ‘ideal art’ created by the academies. Cezanne (b.1839-1906) was interested in the simplification of naturally occurring forms to their geometric essentials; he did

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    in the Hollandische Meierei a popular tavern located in Zurich Switzerland‚ it was the birth place of Dada and was opened on February 5th 1916 by Hugo Ball and his wife Emmy Hennings. It was run by hardcore Dada enthusiast such as Tristan Tazara‚ Marcel Janco‚ Jean Arp‚ Richard Huelsenbeck‚ Sophie Tauber and Hans Ritcher‚ along with others. They put on a variety of shows in relation to expressing their disgust with the war and what inspired it‚ breaking down all stereotypical and bourgeois values

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