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  1. View all 83 artworks. Marcel Duchamp lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of French Dada and Surrealism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

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    • The Legacy of Marcel Duchamp

    Marcel Duchamp was raised in Normandy, in a family of artists. His father was mayor of Blainville and his mother raised their seven children and painted landscapes depicting the French countryside. Family time was spent playing chess, reading, painting, and playing music. One of Marcel's earliest artworks, Landscape at Blainville(1902), painted at ...

    Paris in the early 1900s was the ideal place for Duchamp to become acquainted with modern trends in painting. Duchamp studied Fauvism, Cubism, and Impressionism, and was captivated by new approaches to color and structure. He related above all to the Cubist notion of reordering reality, rather than simply representing it. His early paintings, such ...

    In 1911, the twenty-five-year-old Marcel Duchamp met Francis Picabia, and the following year attended a theater adaptation of Raymond Roussel's Impressions d'Afrique with Picabia and Guillaume Apollinaire. This experience, and Roussel's inventive plots and puns in particular, made a deep impression on Duchamp. He noted that, for the first time, he ...

    As Surrealism became popular in France, Duchamp traveled between New York and Paris, participating in printed textual projects, sculptural installations, and collaborations in all mediums with the Surrealists. Yet Duchamp always stayed away from groups - that invariably came with their group politics. He was never truly part of the Surrealist group...

    After he withdrew from the art world, Duchamp remained a passive, if influential, presence in New York avant-garde circles until he was rediscovered in the 1950s by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns - the so-called Neo-Dadaists. Interestingly, at around this time Duchamp welcomed an association with Dadaism - willing to be associated with a grou...

    • French
    • July 28, 1887
    • Normandy, France
    • October 2, 1968
  2. Maria Martins (1946–1951) Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp ( UK: / ˈdjuːʃɒ̃ /, US: / djuːˈʃɒ̃, djuːˈʃɑːmp /, [1] French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.

  3. Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp ( UK: , US: , French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.

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  4. May 1, 2024 · Marcel Duchamp (born July 28, 1887, Blainville, France—died October 2, 1968, Neuilly) was a French artist who broke down the boundaries between works of art and everyday objects. After the sensation caused by Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) (1912), he painted few other pictures.

  5. Subverting traditional or accepted modes of artistic production with irony and satire is a hallmark of Duchamps legendary career. His most striking, iconoclastic gesture, the readymade, is arguably the century’s most influential development on artists’ creative process.

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  7. Associated art terms include. Dada and Readymade. Works. 164 works online. Marcel Duchamp. Man Seated by a Window. 1907. Marcel Duchamp. Landscape. 1908. Marcel Duchamp. Conversation. 1909. Marcel Duchamp. Portrait of. Yvonne Duchamp. 1907 or 1909. Marcel Duchamp. Sundays. 1909. Marcel Duchamp. Laundry Barge. 1910. Marcel Duchamp. Two Nudes. 1910.

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