What pointless rules. Shall we flip them over… like a urinal?
Duchamp
Suppose the key to escaping old art has been placed within her hands.
A solitary muse said to have given birth to modern art. She looks upon the world with a cold, cynical gaze, but beneath it lies a fierce fighting spirit born from her intense rejection of classical art. She is also obsessed with chess—to the point that once she becomes absorbed in a match, she forgets to eat or sleep.
Style
DadaismeHometown
France
Classics
- "Fountain"
- "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even"
- "L.H.O.O.Q." etc.
This is the Duchamp piece!
Fountain
A landmark of “Readymade” art. The work consists of nothing more than a mass-produced men’s urinal turned on its side and signed with a name, yet its bizarre nature forced society to confront the question: “Can this truly be called art?” The original has been lost, but because the work is inherently easy to reproduce, several replicas still exist today.
I tried submitting a piece under a fake name to an exhibition committee I’m on, but they rejected it. Honestly… how boring.
Year
1917
Medium
Glazed ceramic male urinal
Dimension
61 cm x 36 cm x 48 cm
Collection
The original is lost. Multiple replicas exist.
Who is Duchamp?
Marcel Duchamp
A French artist who had an immeasurable influence on 20th-century art through the concept of the “Readymade.” His work Fountain, which displayed a mass-produced urinal as it was, is still discussed more than a century later as a symbol of modern art. In recent years, scholars have also revisited the possibility that fellow Dada artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven may have been involved in the ideas or production behind some of his works, and research on the subject continues today.
Full Name
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp
Born
July 28, 1887
Died
October 2, 1968(aged 81)