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Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp , 1887-1968, French painter, brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and half-brother of Jacques Villon . Duchamp is noted for his cubist-futurist painting Nude Descending a Staircase, depicting continuous action with a series of overlapping figures; it was the cause of great... Read more |
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Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Raymond Duchamp-Villon , 1876-1918, French sculptor; brother of the artists Marcel Duchamp and Jacques Villon. From the tradition of Rodin he turned to cubism in 1912. He began to assemble machinelike forms with more than a touch of fantasy. His famous geometrically faceted Horse is in the... Read more |
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Jacques Villon
Jacques Villon 1875-1963, French painter, brother of Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Duchamp-Villon . Villon became an exponent of cubism in 1911 and is best known for his refinement of the cubist style. His works are noted for their free use of color and carefully structured composition (e.g., ... Read more |
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kinetic art
kinetic art term referring to sculptured works that include motion as a significant dimension. The form was pioneered by Marcel Duchamp , Naum Gabo , and Alexander Calder . Kinetic art is either nonmechanical, e.g., Calder's mobiles , or mechanical, e.g., works by Gabo, László ... Read more |
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Section dOr
Section d'Or. Group of French painters who worked in loose association between 1912 and 1914, when the First World War brought an end to their activity. The members included Delaunay, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Gleizes, Gris, Léger, Metzinger, Picabia, and Villon. Their common stylistic feature... Read more |
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Antoine Pevsner
Antoine Pevsner , 1886-1962, Russian sculptor and painter. He was influenced by cubism while in Paris in 1911 and 1913. During World War I he was in Norway with his brother Naum Gabo . They returned to Moscow after the Russian Revolution. Pevsner taught at the Moscow academy and associated with... Read more |
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Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons In the tradition of Marcel Duchamp, Dada, and Pop Art, American artist Jeff Koons (born 1955) created controversial works of art that forced the spectator to reexamine the impact of consumerism and popular culture on both the individual and contemporary society. Jeff Koons was... Read more |
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ready-made
ready-made. A name given by Marcel Duchamp to a type of work he invented consisting of a mass-produced article selected at random, isolated from its functional context, and displayed as a work of art. His first ready-made (1913) was a bicycle wheel, which he mounted on a kitchen stool. Strictly... Read more |
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objet trouve
objet trouvé (French: found object). An object found by an artist and displayed with no, or minimal, alteration as (or as an element in) a work of art. It may be a natural object, such as a pebble, a shell, or a curiously contorted branch, or a man-made object such as a piece of pottery or old... Read more |
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Man Ray
Man Ray 1890-1976, American photographer, painter, and sculptor, b. Philadelphia. Along with Marcel Duchamp , Ray was a founder of the Dada movement in New York and Paris. He is celebrated for his later surrealist paintings and photography. Among his inventions is the rayograph, a photograph... Read more |
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The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, 2 vols, 3d rev. ed.
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Marcel Duchamp's strange monument to eros; Duchamp's strange ode to eros ; In...
...Donnes,', his final work created between 1946...through November. "Marcel, Marcel, I love you like Hell, Marcel." So ran a mash note written to Marcel Duchamp in 1923 by the Baroness...Created in almost ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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MARCEL DUCHAMP, RELUCTANT ARTIST, FINALLY GETTING HIS DUE RESPECTS
...premises acted out by Duchamp that has snaked...every proposition Duchamp submitted in the...rapidly and was nearly complete by 1974, when a...25th anniversary of Duchamp's death, the...a generation. "Marcel Duchamp" is ... |
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Profile: Studies of the late biologist Stephen Jay Gould into the work of...
...Stephen Jay Gould into the work of artist Marcel Duchamp Host: JOHN YDSTIE Time...found another aspect of the work on Duchamp attractive. It was controversial...says, consider what may be Duchamp's best-known ... |
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The loo that shook the world: Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabi ; In 1917, nobody...
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Arts: Pop Art and after As retrospectives of his work open in Barcelona and...
...pioneer, friend of Marcel Duchamp and creator of some...boundary-blurring works as Toaster 1965...it is as much a work of art as anything...process is pretty well complete: to paraphrase...into my aesthetic. Duchamp's idea ... |
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A fountain, a spontaneous combustion, and the Mona Lisa: Duchamp's symbolism...
...within a literary work, an interpretation...definition its complete break with what has...raised about art by Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain...particular features of Duchamp's readymade as...aspect common to Duchamp's ... |
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ARTS: The complete history of art; Tate Liverpool breaks new ground again as...
...representing almost the complete history of drawing...familiar and rarely seen works bringing together...impressive display the works of artists such as...own much praised work. As Newman herself...In the exhibition works are creatively ... |
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A bit of a joke
...clear, the artist Marcel Duchamp was obviously an...personality was luminous. Marcel smiled. I smiled...great such a glow, Duchamp clearly was quite...probably only his complete personal amiability...the most bizarre works ... |
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Pseud ascending
...supportive. Duchamp's father was...struggles here; Duchamp pere even came...turning-point in Marcel's career came...machines. When Duchamp went to New York...is itself "a complete work of art"; the only ... |
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