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Historical Artist - Marcel Duchamp (1901 - 1985)
Marcel Duchamp studied in Paris, where he acquired the stimulus of Cézanne and the
Fauves. He later combined the properties of Cubism and Futurism, to create a revolutionary piece
entitled Nude Descending a Staircase. Duchamp was also the creator of the ready-made in 1913 ,
an everyday object transformed by its context. For example, in Duchamp’s 1917 piece,
Fountain, he exhibited a unmodified urinal as his sculpture. In 1915, he moved to New York and
became an influential figure in American Dadaism. His later works were intending to be playful
and humorous, but also rebellions against the stiff nature of the art world. output influenced
the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy
Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art
during this period. A playful man, Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic
processes and art marketing, not so much by writing, but through subversive actions such as
dubbing a urinal "art" and naming it Fountain. He produced relatively few artworks,
while moving quickly through the avant-garde circles of his time.
Contemporary French Artists
Art Galleries in France
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