the usual ideas of what was ‘right’ or ‘allowed’. Artists were largely in this group. Marcel Duchamp and Yasumasa Morimura are examples of artists who appropriated other people‚ things and paintings in their work‚ to change their meanings‚ and either rebel against the norms of society‚ make a statement about issues affecting them and their culture‚ or to add humour to a once serious piece. Marcel Duchamp‚ born in France in 1887‚ to an artistic family‚ was an expressive artist who was able to
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Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa Morimura is an internationally respected and controversial Japanese artist who through his art‚ represents social changes in Japanese culture‚ such as Western influences‚ politics and gender values. Morimura explores how Japan interacts with the World through the lens of the artist and how the artist creates an identity within his culture and the global community. Morimura was born in Osaka‚ Japan‚ in 1951. He was educated at Kyoto City University of the Arts where
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Marcel Duchamp worked from the beginning of the 20th century through the 1960s influencing the art world in ways that no other artists can claim. He had a part‚ even if it was small in nearly every art movement from the cubists to the futurists to the dada to surrealism and through to pop art‚ creating his own genre intermitted called ready made art. Duchamp was a French Artist born in 1887 and moved to Paris in 1904 to pursue his career as a painter. Over the next twenty years he did his most
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As best stated by British Pop artist Richard Hamilton‚ “All the branches put out by Duchamp have borne fruit. So widespread have been the effects of his life that no individual may lay claim to be his heir‚ no one has his scope or his restraint.” Marcel Duchamp was a leading‚ unorthodox figure who challenged all frames of reference‚ attempted to always anticipate new contexts‚ and altered the stakes of the game (the art world) radically‚ over and over again. Not only is he one of the most influential
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visit the “Duchamp to Pop” exhibition. The theme of this exhibit was to demonstrate Marcel Duchamp’s influence and sway over the development and emergence of Pop Art and its artists. Besides many pieces by Marcel Duchamp‚ there was a variety of other artworks on view by artists such as George Herms‚ Claes Oldenburg‚ Tom Wesselmann‚ Andy Warhol‚ Robert Rauschenberg‚ and Jim Dine. This exhibit was displayed in a space of three rooms‚ where the first room was greatly focused on Marcel Duchamp but also
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Jessica Brown Final Paper Art 104i Marcel Duchamp “The Fountain” To begin to understand Marcel Duchamp’s specific piece of art “The Fountain” I delved deep into the history behind the Dada movement‚ from which Duchamp thrived. This began with an in depth look at Western Europe during World War I‚ The Dada’s reaction to the World War‚ and more specifically Marcel Duchamp’s reaction to the World War. As stated in the book‚ “no single event influenced the development of modern as profoundly
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artwork and feel a sense an interest‚ is achieved as artist’s endorse the role of crafting unprecedented work with the use of conventional materials. This notion will be explored through use of the following artists: Pablo Picasso a Spanish cubist‚ Marcel Duchamp‚ was a French member of the Dada Movement‚ Rosalie Gascoigne a New Zealand contemporary artist (d.1999)‚ El Anatsui a West African contemporary artist and Fiona Hall a contemporary Australian artist. Artists explore the conceptual frame throughout
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Duchamp: Marginality and Modernism and The Questioning of the Androgynous Self Both Dada and Surrealism cannot be understood as just new art movements‚ but also social ones. During the 1960s‚ the whole notion of what constituted art underwent a profound change‚ accompanying this questioning of the aesthetics of the art object; this was also a time when massive acceleration took place in the extent to which sex was discusses and sexual images‚ produced. One of the main developments that came out
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Pablo Picasso & Marcel Duchamp Pablo Picasso is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He was born in Spain but worked mainly in France‚ where he became the most well-known artist of his time. Picasso’s massive output of paintings‚ sculptures‚ drawings‚ prints and ceramics was inspired by many different sources. In the early 1900s‚ Picasso developed a movement that signified him‚ it was known as “cubism”. This movement marked the beginning of modernism. Marcel Duchamp has been known
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Marcel Duchamp arrived in the United States less than two years prior to the creation of Fountain and had become involved with Dada‚ an anti-rational‚ anti-art cultural movement‚ in New York City. According to one version‚ the creation of Fountain began when‚ accompanied by artist Joseph Stella and art collector Walter Arensberg‚ he purchased a standard Bedfordshire model urinal from the J. L. Mott Iron Works‚ 118 Fifth Avenue. The artist brought the urinal to his studio at 33 West 67th Street‚ reoriented
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