Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel Duchamp, ‘Fountain’, 1917/1964

One of the most celebrated artists of all time, Marcel Duchamp opened up new ways of seeing and thinking about art.

Pablo Picasso's "Bull's Head" is both a brilliantly playful invention and a shrewd response to a perceived artistic challenge.

Hans Richter was the most important film maker to come out of the German Dada movement before it moved to France and evolved into Surrealism. The Dada movement started during World War One in Zurich, Switzerland amongst writers and artists, mostly Germans and a few Rumanians, hiding out from the war. The ideology of Dada was a rejection of any and all bourgeois values that they associated with a society that seemed to be completely falling apart in the carnage of the first mass industrial…

Dada's mockery, wit, and absurdity powerfully criticized European culture and opened new ways to make art. Revolutionary ideas by Duchamp, Ray, Hoch, Tzara+

“I’m a surprisingly limited photographer,” Penn insisted to me, “and I’ve learned not to go beyond my capacity. I’ve tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I’ve failed.” Yet it is difficult to deny that Penn was the supreme studio photographer of the twentieth century. His artistry both emerged from and depended on his very specific, highly aestheticized commercial work.

Artwork by Marcel Duchamp, La Mariée (G./P. E672), Made of Aquatint in colors on Arches paper

Marcel Duchamp ~ This picture captures the Futuristic element by creating motion in every single inch. The bodies flow with that around them which invoke a sense of passion, and stand out from the background to create almost a holographic effect. This truly embodies the spirit of futurism