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Marcel Duchamp: 1887-1968

July 28, 2013 By Wendy Campbell

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was born to a family of artists on July 28, 1887, near Blainville, France. Three of his siblings were successful artists and Duchamp was the grandson of painter and engraver Emile Nicolle.

From 1904-05, Duchamp studied painting at the Académie Julian but by his own admission, preferred playing billiards. His early works were influenced by the Post-Impressionist style however in 1911, Duchamp developed his own form of Cubism that combined earthy colours, mechanical forms and the depiction of repetitive images of objects or bodies in motion.  Perhaps the most well known in this style was his 1912 painting “Nude Descending a Staircase” that was shown at the Salon del de la Section d’Or and later created  great controversy at the 1913 Armory Show in New York.

After 1912, Duchamp rarely painted, preferring instead to create his own brand of art which he coined “readymades”.  Readymades were one or more ordinary everyday objects that were slightly altered then signed by the artist. Duchamp’s earliest readymades included “Bicycle Wheel” (a wheel mounted on a wooden stool), a snow shovel called “In Advance of the Broken Arm”, and a urinal titled “Fountain” that he signed “R. Mutt”.   Of his own readymades, Duchamp spoke of how using prefabricated objects freed him from the ‘trap’ of developing a particular style or taste.

In 1915, Duchamp traveled to New York, where he associated with patron and artist Katherine Dreier, and artist Man Ray, with whom he founded the Société Anonyme in 1920, and other avant-garde figures. Between 1915 and 1923, Duchamp created his most complex work “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, (aka The Large Glass)” which was constructed of two panes of glass with materials such as lead foil, fuse wire, and dust.

In 1918, Duchamp took a break from the New York art scene and traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he became fascinated with and played chess for nine months. Duchamp returned to Paris in 1919 and associated with the Dada group. In New York in 1920, he made his first motor-driven constructions and invented Rrose Sélavy, his feminine alter ego.

Duchamp returned to Paris in 1923 and appeared to have abandoned art for chess but did in fact continue his artistic endeavors. From the mid-1930s, he collaborated and exhibited with the Surrealists. In the 1940s, he associated and exhibited with the Surrealists in New York, and in 1946 began “Etant donnés,” a major assemblage piece which he secretly worked on for twenty years.  In 1942, Duchamp settled permanently in New York and became a United States citizen in 1955. In 1954, he married Alexina “Teeny” Duchamp whom he had met in Paris in 1923.

Duchamp’s influence on the art scene was relatively small until the 1950’s when young artists such as Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, seeking something beyond Abstract Expressionism, “discovered” his work. Duchamp gained international public recognition in the 1960’s with his first retrospective exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1963, a large exhibit at the Tate Gallery in 1966, and showings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Marcel Duchamp died on October 2, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and is buried in the Rouen Cemetery. He is considered by many to be the single most important influence on the formation and direction of Pop Art, Minamalism, and conceptional art of the 1960’s and 70’s. As well, his idea of the “readymade” forever altered our understanding of what constitutes a work of art.

For a complete biography of Marcel Duchamp, see the sources links below.



Father-Marcel-Duchamp



Sources: MOMA, Guggenheim, Tate Online, Wikipedia, Artchive (images)

Filed Under: ART, Art History, Mixed Media, Painting, Sculpture Tagged With: Dada, French Art, Marcel Duchamp, Readymades

DALeast: Powder of Light @ Jonathan Levine Gallery

December 17, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

DALeast (featured) was born in 1984 in China and is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and began making art in public spaces in 2004. His murals can be found in cities around the world.

His latest exhibition “Powder of Light currently on at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York, combines acrylic, ink and spray paint on a background texture of tea-stained canvas. DALeast paints animal figures in his signature style using a swirling vortex of organic black lines with white highlights. He creates a ribbon-like effect to form sinuous creatures that vibrate with kinetic energy. Horses, eagles, camels and rams leap off the picture plane, their shadows trailing behind them. Some appear to unravel while others merge together or attack one other. The artist draws inspiration from dichotomies such as the material and spiritual world, human emotion and animal nature.”

Powder of Light runs through December 29, 2012. To see more, visit Jonathan Levine Gallery, or DALEast.com.



Filed Under: ART, Exhibitions, Mixed Media, Painting Tagged With: DALEast, Jonathan Levine Gallery, Powder of Light

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 135

December 11, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy!




Filed Under: Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Colour Doomed, Herakut, Kakotomirai, Krisoft, Leon Steele, Lou Ros, Robert Grimes, Ruben Ireland, Андрей Осокин

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 133

November 26, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx – Enjoy!!




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Andy Kehoe, Ashley Vincent, David Kassan, Justin Gignac, Liu Yuanshou, Mathilde Roussel, Rob Sato, Robert Bissell

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 132

November 20, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Sculpture Tagged With: Danny Scheible, Jacub Gagnon, JM Gershenson-Gates, Johan Potma, John Hartman, Michihiro Matsuoka, Rubén Miranda, Samuel Silva, Sibylle Will

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 129

October 22, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx – Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art Tagged With: Adam S. Doyle, Alberto Seveso, Cecilia Paredes, Chloe Early, Christian Tagliavini, Comme des Garcons, Henri Lamy, INTI, Rorik Smith

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 128

October 17, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Cheers!




Filed Under: ART, Collage, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Camilla D'errico, Catherine Nelson, Denise Kester, Elizabeth St Hilaire-Nelson, Jody MacDonald, Melinda Cootsona, Michael Snow, Naoto Hattori, Russ Mills

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 127

October 9, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Collage, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: art-o-mat, Daniel Boylan, DrawingDreams.org, João Ruas, Kim Joon, ROA, Robert Grimes, Sefano Bonazzi, Yue Minjun

Michael Fields: Painting/Drawing

October 4, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Michael Fields is a self-taught artist based in Portland, Oregon. His work is the product of personal reflection.. “When I paint, I contemplate the world as I know it: situations and people of past, present and future come into focus and it is my reaction to these concepts that dictates what emerges onto the canvas.” Michael’s work is born not of planned composition, but inner dialog, often challenging the viewer to decipher messages both on the surface and buried deep within it’s structure. Fields is also a graphic designer and WordPress developer.

To see more, visit Art.MFields.org or his blog MFields.org.





Filed Under: ART, Drawing, Mixed Media Tagged With: American Art, Michael Fields

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 125

September 24, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx – Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Carol Brookes, Christy Lee Rogers, Dave Kinsey, Hendrik Beikirch, Lynnette Shelley, Mariana Ricterova, Mario S. Nevado, Travis Louie

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