Marcel Duchamp's version of Mona Lisa is a prime example of the Dada spirit.
Ironically, Duchamp's daring deviltry itself became a classic widely replicated on postcards, posters and mugs.
It picks Picasso, Duchamp, Kandinsky and de Chirico as the big influences of the century.
He has recycled tropes from Marcel Duchamp, Surrealism, Francis Bacon, Minimalism, and numerous near-contemporaries.
With abstraction as the hinge, Duchamp opened a trapdoor at the bottom of Western thought and feeling.
Yet it remains the most sophisticated but accessible introduction to Duchamp's motivation, evolution, imagery and intellectual sources.
Pierre Pinoncelli was convicted of vandalizing one of the famous urinals signed by Dada's artist, Marcel Duchamp.
Marcel Duchamp took a reproduction of da Vinci's painting, and drew a moustache and goatee on her face.
Its roster of artists boasts the names of Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondriaan and George Braque, to name just a few.
Whereas Picasso knew how to compete against fellow painters from Georges Braque to Henri Matisse, Duchamp could not be beat.
And Marcel Duchamp and other Dadaists had elevated the banal objects of everyday life to art back in the 1920s.
In 1917, Duchamp created one of his "ready-made" works again in the spirit of challenging what society defined as art.
On the point of intellect, the show makes an awkward but compelling case that Marcel Duchamp stands centrally in the history of abstraction.
The early 20th-century anti-art movement of Marcel Duchamp and Man-Ray rejected conventional forms, declared that art is dead and took a deliberately absurdist approach.
That's also engagingly reflected in "Prayer at the Museum" (2008) an assemblage by the Colombian Alvaro Barrios that is an homage to Marcel Duchamp.
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If you think of the deciphering of the genetic code and the worship of Duchamp for having exhibited a urinal, the contrast is only too obvious.
His four wives, for example, barely put in an appearance including the colourful Teeny Matisse, the mother of his three children, who went on to marry Marcel Duchamp.
Born in Germany, Hessel and his parents immigrated to France in 1924, where they settled into an avant-garde life, hanging out with artists like Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp.
In 1998 she took on the art establishment by authoring a study asserting that many of Duchamp's "found objects" weren't found at all but assembled by the artist (scholars aren't certain).
Banyuls is home to the Musee Maillol, where the works of sculptor Aristide Maillol, a contemporary of Paul Gauguin, are on display along with those of Marcel Duchamp and Picasso.
"Marcel Duchamp: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" (1973) was, by contrast, devoted to an artist whose aims were opposed to those of the painters with whom Golding felt deep affinity.
London is lucky at the moment to have encyclopedic shows of the flowering of American art in the last century, especially of New York artists influenced by Marcel Duchamp now at the Barbican.
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Or maybe (and this explanation seemed most likely) Stinky was suggesting that its taste-making power is strong enough to transform a pedestrian Snickers bar into a whimsical find the way Duchamp turned a urinal into high art.
Like Marcel Duchamp, who had just started to explore the heretical concept of turning a mass-produced, commercial object into a work of art "Readymades, " he called them Epstein believed that the machine he had bought with such boldness had its own validity as a sculpture.
Once you descend into Cadaques, a town that drew Pablo Picasso (The Port at Cadaques, 1910), and Surrealist artists like Jean Miro and Marcel Duchamp, it is only a few more kilometres to Portlligat and the wondrous, white Salvador Dali House Museum (reservations are required).
Still, this is a story that cannot be told without Breton because such was his dominating personality that, with the exception of Duchamp, Picasso and the aging Matisse, all the poets, writers and artists of the day were forced to define themselves as his friend or foe (and many of course went from friend to foe).
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection houses a first-class collection of 20th-century art from Dali to Duchamp in a beautiful white palazzo on the Grand Canal, and the Punta della Dogana, a contemporary art centre at the tip of Dorsoduro, contains the modern art collection of Francois Pinault, the CEO of Kering, which owns labels like Gucci and Saint Laurent.
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