Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Yves Klein (April 28, 1928 – June 6, 1962) (see Neo-Dada) Hans Leybold (April 2, 1892 – September 8, 1914) Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2, 1944)
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (French: Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) is a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp.The work is widely regarded as a Modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time.
Dada (sometimes called Dadaism) is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design.The movement was a protest of the barbarism of the war; its works were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art.
Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. It began in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1916, and spread to Berlin shortly thereafter. [33] To quote Dona Budd's The Language of Art Knowledge, Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I.
Marcel Duchamp, photograph published in Les Peintres Cubistes, 1913. This is an incomplete list of works by the French artist Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968), painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada.
L.H.O.O.Q. (French pronunciation: [ɛl aʃ o o ky]) is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp. First conceived in 1919, the work is one of what Duchamp referred to as readymades , or more specifically a rectified ready-made. [ 2 ]
Eljer Co. Highest Quality Two-Fired Vitreous China Catalogue 1918 Bedfordshire No. 700. Marcel Duchamp had arrived in the United States less than two years prior to the creation of Fountain and had become involved with Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Beatrice Wood (amongst others) in the creation of an anti-rational, anti-art, proto-Dada cultural movement in New York City.
By submitting some of them as art to art juries, the public, and his patrons, Duchamp challenged conventional notions of what is, and what is not, art. Some were rejected by art juries and others went unnoticed at art shows. Most of his early readymades have been lost or discarded, but years later he commissioned reproductions of many of them.