11VA Theory - Marcel Duchamp

The Influence of

DUCHAMP

Duchampism - the cult of Duchamp

Week 5, Term 1, 2015

BIOGRAPHY

• Birth Name: Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp• Born July: 28th July 1887, Blainville Crevon,

France• Died: 2nd October 1968 (aged 81), Neuilly

sur Seine, France• Nationality: French (became a U.S. citizen in

1955)• Art Form: Painting, Sculpture, Film• Movement: Dadaism, Surrealism

FOUNTAINOriginal Version

• 1917, New York• Original lost• Porcelain urinal• Readymade• No dimensions recorded• Painted on the side is

“R. Mutt 1917” by Duchamp, which was named so after Mott Works.

QUOTE• The creative act is not

performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

~ Marcel Duchamp

IN ADVANCE OF A BROKEN ARM"Even standing in the corner it

wouldn't do, for then it suddenly became a shovel again... When our little exhibition [1945 retrospective of three Duchamp brothers] went on tour, a janitor at a Museum in Minnesota the next winter mistook it for a shovel, as well he might, and went to work on a snowdrift, doing Duchamp's inscription no good."

QUOTE• It is necessary to arrive at

selecting an object with the idea of not being impressed by this object on the basis of enjoyment of any order. However, it is difficult to select an object that absolutely does not interest you, not only on the day on which you select it, and which does not have any chance of becoming attractive or beautiful and which is neither pleasant to look at nor particularly ugly.

~ Marcel Duchamp

QUOTE• This Neo-Dada, which they call

New Realism, Pop Art, Assemblage, etc., is an easy way out, and lives on what Dada did. When I discovered the ready-mades I sought to discourage aesthetics. In Neo-Dada they have taken my ready-mades and found aesthetic beauty in them, I threw the bottle-rack and the urinal into their faces as a challenge and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

~ Marcel Duchamp

READYMADE AND FOUND ARTClick the link below to view a video on Marcel Duchamp’s readymade art theory, and the difference between that and junk art.

Marcel Duchamp Talks with Martin Friedman about the Readymade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYqDpNmnu8I

HOMEWORK: Students will be required to login to the Wiki and provide the definitions for Found Objects and Ready Made art in their own words.

Week 6, Term 1, 2015

IMPORTANCE OF THE

F R A M E

POST MODERN FRAME: L.H.O.O.Q• 1919, France• Post card reproduction of the

Mona Lisa with pencil• Readymade• The name of the piece,

L.H.O.O.Q. (in French èl ache o o qu), is a pun, since the letters when pronounced in French form the sentence "Elle a chaud au cul", which can be roughly translated as "She has a hot ass".

POST MODERN FRAME: L.H.O.O.Q

Discuss within the artwork...

• Humour, wit, parody and appropriation

• Recontextualisation• Conceptualism • Rejection of traditional

aesthetics • Notion of the original

IMPORTANCE OF THE

THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: Fountain

How have these agencies interacted?

HOMEWORK: Students must begin researching their Theoretical task and must provide a preference for their chosen artist by next week’s Theory lesson.