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The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas, French: Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau / 2° le gaz d'éclairage) is a 1966 assemblage by Marcel Duchamp. It was his last major artwork, surprising viewers and critics who had widely believed he had given up art; he was previously pursuing competitive chess which he had been playing for almost 25 years.
- Sculpture
- Marcel Duchamp
- 1946–1966
Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic assemblage Étant donnés: 1. La chute d'eau, 2. Le gaz d'éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas) has been described by the artist Jasper Johns as "the strangest work of art in any museum." Permanently installed at the Museum since 1969, this three-dimensional environmental tableau offers an unforgettable and untranslatable experience to those ...
Nov 14, 2017 · But between 1966 and 1968, room 403 served as the home of artist Marcel Duchamp’s final work: Étant donnés: 1. La chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’éclairage (or, in English, Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas). Visitors—if the artist had ever invited any—conceivably would have walked into the office space, only to be ...
- Childhood
- Early Training
- Mature Period
- Later Years
- 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
Étant donnés : 1° la chute d'eau 2° le gaz d'éclairage… 4 est le nom d'une installation de Marcel Duchamp élaborée en secret entre 1946 et 1966 à New York . Elle est considérée comme la dernière grande œuvre de l'inventeur du ready-made et ne fut révélée au public qu'après sa mort, en 1969.
- 1946-1966
- Mixte
- 153 × 111 × 300 cm
- Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp (American (born France), 1887–1968)
Dec 23, 2020 · Par Louis Gevart. Publié le 23 décembre 2020 à 15h27, mis à jour le 21 mars 2023 à 14h30. Des peintures pariétales jusqu’aux plus saisissantes installations, Beaux Arts vous partage 60 chefs-d’œuvre à voir au moins une fois dans sa vie.
