French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
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He put a urinal in a gallery and called it art — and the art world has been arguing about what counts ever since. Duchamp didn't just make provocations; he rewired the entire premise of what an artist does.
Born in France in 1887, Marcel Duchamp spent his last quarter-century in New York, where he became the quiet agent of the avant-garde's American turn. He was the first to elevate a urinal to the status of art, a gesture that cracked open the definition of the medium itself. In a 1957 lecture in Houston, he described the artist as working in "pure intuition," unable to fully account for the work's meaning — a gap he called the art coefficient, "an arithmatic relationship between the unexpressed but intended and the unintentionally expressed." That idea seeded conceptual art and later appropriat…
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The Dada movement was an anti-movement which corresponded to a need born of the first World War.
Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that?
I have been wanting to write to you for some time, but never have time, so absorbed I am in playing chess.
To be looked at [from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass'] with one eye, close to, for almost an hour.
People talk of Pablo Picasso as the leader of the Cubists but, strictly speaking, he is no longer a Cubist. Today he is a Cubist, tomorrow he will be something else.
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