Know the Artist: Marcel Duchamp
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Marcel Duchamp (b. Normandy, 1887-1968) dabbled in the modernist realms of Cubism and Dada, but he was really in a league of his own. His radical creations are both humorous and cerebral, designed to prompt that crucial question: is it art?
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Call out Joan Miró's crappy work.
Why is he even considered a great artist?
Shouldn’t art inspire? What’s inspiring about buying a random object designed by someone else then presenting it as your own work of art?
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Duchamp was himself intolerant of both other modernists, and his immediate predecessors. He claimed he wanted to "destroy art" as religion had been, in his mind, destroyed. He's an anti-artist, and he's anti-art. He ushered in the mundane, the banal, the neither ugly nor beautiful. He wanted to put the utterly innocuous on a pedestal in a rebellion against aesthetics, beauty, meaning, and transcendence. His art is like flavorless food: library paste on a spoon celebrated as the greatest cuisine of our times. He strove to make the boring into art, to rid his art of anything visually appealing, to make art a mundane, mute, thing. And he succeeded. After Duchamp died, Picasso famously said (assuming this story isn't apocryphal), "He was wrong". Picasso was right.
Great presentation insightful and enjoyable. I will be sure to watch more. Thank you.
Thanks Scott!
Really interesting video, love how you manage to touch on so many different but connected categories.
Learned about Duchamp from the art assignment and wanted to know more about this artist so thank you for this video and hope you have a great 2021!!!
Amazing! Love the Art Assignment. Thank you so much for watching, and a happy/healthy new year to you! 🥂
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I can think of no more boring artist. However, that was something Duchamp heralded. Not only did he seek to present object he selecting very specifically because they he was "indifferent" to them, and they were completely mute in terms of aesthetics and visual language, he also adulated the boring in art, and argued people had started to go to "happenings" and other art events in order to be "bored".
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Superb coverage of M.D. Thus was born our late 20th century Pandora's Box of 'conceptualistic parasites' leaping in facile and commercial manner (unlike the brilliant philosophic founder, M.D. himself) on anything that "anyone could have done"! Bottom line: anything requiring catalogue notes to explain itself has captured
nothing but its own solipsistic existence. But M.D. - a genius for his time, but not - in his wake, politically, socially, etc - ours. The definition of art remains as anarchic as any interpretative response to anything. That said, your longer narrative commentary was wonderfully comprehensive (as usual) and guaranteed to prompt discussion galore. Thank you. Ta. MB
Precisely! He opened the flood gates for a lot of crap (and a lot of great art, too) but if nothing else I hope the takeaway is that his philosophy was revolutionary. Kinda like the Shakespearean sentiment that “all the world’s a stage,” it’s just really cool that he was amongst the first to see the potential for art in anything and everything. So glad you enjoyed the vid!
Can you make a video about Elsa von Freytag? the dada artist who Duchamp stole the urinal from
I always think of DADA and Duchamp when the question "what is art?" comes up... It is really a question of sincerity and intention. If an artist makes it, is it art? If he or she is not trying to deceive anybody, and calls it art, then it is art. If its intention is questionable, then so is how it is defined as art.
The ever-debatable question! That’s why we adore Duchamp. Regardless of whether his creations resonate, he certainly prompted a meaningful and enduring topic of discussion.
What a great presentation, full of thoughtful ideas and explanations.
Ok I'm officially taking issue with your correct pronunciation of hannah hoch, yet you called Vincent "van go" in the munch video. You can pronounce Gogh better than any of us lol ^^;
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The most important artist of the last century.
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Marcel Duchamp is one of my big art heroes. My favorite works of his are Fountain and L.H.O.O.Q. It could be quite interesting to have a deep conversation with Marcel Duchamp.
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Elsa von Freytag-loringhoven changed the art world,Marcel stole her works and her life.
Just wanna say your videos are great watched five in a row!
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I love it that before Duchamp, people knew the definition of art. After, no one.
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Another excellent video. Thank you again.
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he was ahead of his time
Totally! Depending upon how you look at it he was also very much a product of his time, integrating modern appliances and contemporary concepts/concerns into his work. Either way he was definitely forward-thinking!
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very good analysis - thanks a lot - love it
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video :)