Marcel Duchamp was a French naturalised, American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with cubism and conceptual art. Duchamp's work is very similar to Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. He has put an immense impact on the twentieth century as his work is very abstract and bold and in some way slightly complicated, this is what attracts the viewers to look and work from his creations.
This piece of work was created by Duchamp. The name of this particular artwork is "sixteen miles of string", it was created in 1942 and was made using only various types of string. He would take images of the areas that attracted him the most and focus on the areas that are more complicated as this was the way he worked. Using Marcel's work; as a group we will create a similar piece of work using different types of string. However after we have done that we will work from the lines and designs within the string and extended our ideas further and create something within the string. I will show my ideas as I continue researching and experimenting with the string.
Nude defending a staircase - Duchamp's cubism work was very similar to the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. He also did a lot of cubism work, however Duchamp's work has its own unique explanation behind it. As well as cubism he did work involving movement and objects, although in this particular piece he involved both. As you can see he has used many bold and abstract lines, however they are stages of a moving figure when you look into the painting more. The colours in this painting are very dull in my opinion however they link with the shapes and outlines of the person with in his work.
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp was produced in 1917, the Dada period. The piece was a porcelain urinal, which was signed ''R.Mutt''. The dimensions of the fountain were 61cm x 36cm x 48cm and seemed to be an off white colour. This is the original photo of the fountain as sadly the real sculpture was destroyed, however it has been replicated and signed with black paint, it is presented in the Tate museum in London and is presented on its back for exhibition purposes rather than upright.
The Bottle holder, Bicycle wheel and Fountain, these are his most famous sculptures that he created.
Duchamp's had a liking to movement with in objects and his sculptures. He felt it added something more to his artwork and made him very different to other artists. This particular image below is third version of The Bicycle Wheel created by another artist in 1951 as the original wheel created by Duchamp was lost in 1913, in other words possibly destroyed. Although Duchamp had collected manufactured objects in his studio in Paris, it was not until he came to New York that he identified them as a category of art. When he modified these objects in his own strange ways, for example by mounting a bicycle wheel on a kitchen stool, he called them "Assisted Readymades." Duchamp later recalled that the original Bicycle Wheel was created as a "distraction".
Now, this man below was named Eadweard Muybridge, he had a very strong interest in movement with in his artwork too. However he expressed it using human figures and animal figures. He was a English photographer and he would record the motion of living things through his images he would take himself. As I see observe his work I feel it is rather strange how he chose to make the people he worked with wear very little clothing and most of the time fully naked, as the actions he made them do in the photos are very active. However as I think about it I feel that is the message he is trying to get across, as if it makes the images more exciting to some people and more detailed.
A lot of Muybridge's pieces linked very cleverly with Duchamp's work as they both used the theme movement with in their creations. Duchamp simply took an image of his work where as Edward took several, to show each part of the body moving overtime, as the human moved or did an action of some sort he would take many images to get the correct photo he was looking for. Same with his animal work, although I find his human photos a lot more detailed and strange. From researching into his work I find him rather obscure so for that reason I may extended my ideas further and use his ideas with in my own work.
This person below is Rrose Selavy it is Marcel Duchamp. Marcel was not a transvestite but he felt he had an alter ego, a double life as some may say. He invented this personality to express another side to him and his artwork, the work was similar but had a deeper meaning to it when Rrose did it. Rrose had a desire for sex, almost an obsession and she would show this with in her artwork. Her name was a pun, it sounds like the French phrase ''Eros c'est la vie'' which translates into English ''Eros, that's life''. She used this name to show her attitude to life, I find it inspiring and very different.
This piece below is called Why not sneeze? It was created by the french artist Rrose Selavy in 1921 but was replicated in 1964. It is a simple cage but has a lot of meaning behind it. Included in the cage are 120 sugar cubes, a cuttle fish and a thermometer. When I found out what was inside the cage it didn't make any sense to me but quickly after finding out about her background history I realised why she used these particular objects. Everything with in the image below relates to her and how she is dealing with sex, the cuttle fish links as she is comparing herself to one as they alter their sex type, the thermometer is her body temperature changing constantly and the cubes of sugar are not actually sugar; they are marble cubes, she has put them inside the cage as she is comparing them to her as a cold, uptight person just like the object marble. To summarise the piece of artwork she placed all these objects in a cage to represent her feelings hidden way. The name of the piece is also linked with her sexual desire as the words ''Why not sneeze?'' relate to her. They say that when you sneeze its the 8th of an orgasm and she is saying that, that is the closet option she has had to having one by sneezing. Her work is insanely clever and I will defiantly work in the style of her but change certain objects and so fourth.
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