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Marcel Duchamp
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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.