The language in which Duchamp uses and presents is unique, and with only those who are willing to study and learn it could be able to "read" such writing. The language was an extension of the mediums he worked with, this being the medium of communication, a "un amas d'idees" (Seigel 154). .
The "readymade" object series referenced three languages that Duchamp presented with his works. The first work eliminated reference to concrete objects in the world. This work is composed of symbols whose meaning Duchamp established himself, all having a common element in the elimination of language's ordinary role as a medium through which human beings establish relations with one another. A languages ordinary role is to allow individuals to communicate their personal feelings and ideas, on the one hand, and their perceptions of the external world on the other. .
Only the third is strictly private language (although, like symbolic universe of the Large Glass work by Duchamp, accessible to others who are given enough information.)The second, like some of Duchamp' s pictures, offered the appearance of comprehensibility but without the possibility of achieving it: and the first was devised as a medium to express relations too abstract to be accessible by any existing language (Seigel, 154).
The private language and incomprehensible pictures are some of the barriers that the artist constructs in front of the works hiding their meaning. He worked with puns and play on words, which have underlying meaning but simply reading over them, they appear as nonsense and confusion. This is where the investigation must begin, to bring out the meaning behind the puns and word play in the titles of Duchamp's work.
To exemplify how this twist on language, personal mystery and symbolism one can examine the "readymade" series, the piece entitled, In Advance of the Broken Arm will be unraveled. To a normal audience, reading the title In Advance of the Broken Arm, which accompanies the unaltered object, a snow shovel is seemingly out of context.
An example during the early 20th century is Marcel DuChamp (1887-1968). ... Marcel Duchamp's evolution from ordinary to abstract began with the painting: Nude Descending the Staircase. ... As a result of this, DuChamp was able to keep many of people talking about it. ... I believe that Marcel DuChamp's artwork should be considered art, because in my opinion anything made by man is art. ... Marcel DuChamp was a renegade. ...
Two artists which have succeeded in representing their artworks and ideas throughout the art world by testing boundaries and thinking outside of the box, are Marcel Duchamp and Damien Hirst. Marcel Ducahamp's art works achieve the representation of his ideas as he is an established Dadaist artist, which means his works have the intent to oppose all the norms of bourgeois culture and art forms, making dada, anti-dada. ... In search of an alternative to representing objects in paint, Duchamp began presenting objects themselves as art. ... Another work of Marcel Duchamp that represents hi...
To help show you the differences between these two movements I will use one example of each movement, as a Dada example I will use Marcel Duchamp and his work "The Fountain" and for Surrealism, Salvador Dali and his painting "The Persistence Of Memory". ... Marcel Duchamp's three dimensional piece "The Fountain" is not what many people would call a great piece of art. "The Fountain" is what Duchamp referred to as a readymade. ... With Dali's painting something you wouldn't see as realistic, it is also hard to picture Duchamp's work with a fitting surrounding. ... As...
This essay contextualizes Marcel Duchamp's Etant Donne's (1946-1966) to Man Ray's Le Violin d'Ingres (1924), both of whom are modernist practitioners, in relation to the Modernist concept of the Anti-Aesthetic. ... Etant Donnes by Marcel Duchamp is an interactive sculpture where viewers firstly face a rustic and antiquated looking wooden door (figure 1) with a peephole (figure 2) in an empty room within the Philadelphia museum. ... Instead of the classical and modest pose used in conventional nudes at that time, Duchamp has posed the nude model in an awkward and highly sex...
For example, a urinal is seen as something functional in its natural environment; yet when Marcel Duchamp placed a urinal in an art exhibition in 1913 and called it Fountain, it was transformed into sculpture. Duchamp himself described the conventions by which we measure Art today, saying, "It is we who have given the name "art" to religious things; the word itself doesn't exist among "primitives." ...
These new developments in technology and in particular the works of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, inspired artists such as Umberto Boccioni, Marcel Duchamp and Giocomo Balla. ... Marcel Duchamp, an artist who's work spans over several art "movements", was greatly inspired by the work of Etienne-Jules Marey, and his particular form of chronophotography. ... It was based directly on the multiple exposure photographs produced by Marey, and Duchamp writes himself of how he was inspired by this work, "in one of Marey's books, I saw an illustration of how he indicated people...
Her friends and admirer were among the most infamous of names such as; Picasso, Kandinsky ,and Marcel Duchamp. ... Frida's first exhibition was in 1938 in New York at the Julien Levy Gallery , where after 2 more were held in Paris, all were set up by Andre Breton, the surrealist poet, and Marcel Duchamp. ...