A Range Of Artists And Their Works

Duchamp once said, "An artist should be a destroyer of tradition." By this he believed a persons artwork should be different than any other, causing it to stick out dramatically.

For years and years, generations to generations, there have been hundreds of thousands of talented artists with creative minds that are constantly developing new ideas, concepts and realities. Every artists has his/her own way of portraying reality, and there are artists whose visually stunning images have changed reality in itself and opened up new ways of storytelling. Those artists for me include; Armand Serrano, Robert Kondo and Daisuke

The post modern era is one in which things were twisted, changed and critiqued. Some people questioned the ways and ‘rules’ of society, rebelling against conformity and the usual ideas of what was ‘right’ or ‘allowed’. Artists were largely in this group. Marcel Duchamp and Yasumasa Morimura are examples of artists who appropriated other people, things and paintings in their work, to change their meanings, and either rebel against the norms of society, make a statement about issues affecting them and their culture, or to add humour to a once serious piece.

This being said indicates that Pop art could be seen as one of those crossover movements. The confusion and extreme madness of colour and space show events of the Dada influence. Investigating the historical and cultural issues could be the starting point for many artworks and inspiration. To say that an artwork is brash, extreme or subversive, indicates a responds to any artwork or movement. However the point of art, to get a respond either being good or bad… ''If you have serious ideas, you make art, discoveries, and all of a sudden your head starts to break up into laughter, if you find that all your ideas are useless and ridiculous, know that DADA HAS BEGUN TO SPEAK TO YOU'' 10.The readymade object being seen as a thing becomes an issue of context rather than the use of materials. The question it raises, is it art because its contexts are in a gallery space? or should we ask what is the fundamental aim of the objects used? The object of art is the intelligently language in a visual format. The Dada movements short influence could be seen as a weapon that injected humour both in a rebellious and spontaneous revolution.This could be misread and not seen as well though out, however the fundamental elements of Dada and assemblages as still being practiced today as a

With R Mutt’s Fountain, one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, this places an art historical value on the Duchamp piece. R Mutt’s Fountain was created in 1917, shortly after he became associated with the Dada movement, who emerged amid the brutality of World War One. Dadaism is a movement of art, who were experimental, pushing the boundaries, provocatively reimaging what art and art making could be. They used unconventional materials and chance based procedures, infusing their work with spontaneity and irreverence. Duchamp was a central figure in the Dada movement, declaring common, and “manufactured goods to be ‘readymade’ artworks, radically challenging the notion of a work of art as something beautiful made by a technically skilled artist . R Mutt’s Fountain is one of Duchamp’s most famous works reflecting the Dada movement and ideas surrounding it. He

Conceptual art is the one where materials and techniques are replaced by ideas and concepts, creating art objects that are expected to serve a particular artistic idea. Dadaism initially coined by Marcel Duchamp was one of the branches of conceptual art, showing how the idea may be primary in creating a work of art. Joseph Kosuth’s “The Boundaries of the Limitless” is an example of conceptualism, seen in Figure 4, while the collage “Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany” by Hannah Höch represents Dadaism, seen in Figure 5. Although the distinctions between styles and movements may be no as clear as their value for the viewers, these artworks still represent the ideas of the artists applied through the extraordinary use of resources and techniques without limiting it to a gallery or a private collection, making them accessible and usable to some

What he created and brought upon the art world transformed it forever, which is a change that many weren’t and still aren’t eager to accept. William be Kooning, an abstract artist from Warhol’s time never held back on how much he disliked Warhol, even right after Warhol’s assassination attempt he was seen shouting, "You're a killer of art, you're a killer of beauty, and you're even a killer of laughter.” There’s many accusations of lack of originality in his work as pointed out by literary critic Frederic Jameson who pointed out that Warhol’s “Diamond dust shoes” shared far too many similarities with Van Gogh’s “A pair of shoes” as the only difference being is Warhol’s piece seems more commercialized. Criticisms haven’t faded away with time either, the blogger behind current blog Legally irrelevant recently shared their opinion on Warhol’s art when they revealed,” I tried to keep an open mind (about attending a Warhol exhibit), but as it gradually got filled with pompous crap created with little effort or skill, I couldn't help but become perplexed at Andy Warhol fans.”. Contrary to Warhol’s famous words, pop art may not be for everyone after

Duchamp’s controversial art piece, Fountain, caused a critical shift in how the world views art. Many beliefs were challenged when he tried to submit the piece to the Society of Independent Artists, including the definitions of “art” and “artist”. From my observations, “art” and “artist” are entirely subjective. Everyone seems to have a different perspective, unique ideas about what art is to them. To me, art is altering something in some purposeful way--whether it be recombining materials to create an image, changing how we look at an object, or channeling and expressing emotion in a physical sense. Because this definition of art Art is not something that can be easily defined; due to this, it is hard to quantify what is and is not art. I

Andy Warhol was a famous American print artist. He did most of his works in the 1960’s. This was an important time for popular culture. During this period, new kinds of art, music, movies, and books were being created (“Andy Warhol and Color Discovering Design”). This is what inspired Warhol to view art in a different perspective. Andy helped establish a new style of art known as pop art. Starting pop art was as a result of his hatred for abstract expression. He printed images of famous people as well as ordinary objects. His works portrayed what was popular in the American culture at that time. Warhol’s art was different from other works despite the fact that many people did not pay so much attention to his creations.

Call it baby talk “Dada”, abstract, or ready-made, Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (Fig. 32-30) remains one of the most risen works of art of the twentieth century.

Marcel Duchamp’s concept of the objet trouvé or ready-made as subject matter and material for his work inspired the use of popular imagery in Pop art. The use of trivial imagery in his work brought art into the every day world and made the every day world into art. In his book Pop Art, Tilman Osterwold declares ‘Dada combined advertising, images and texts, slogans, revolutionary films, assemblages, theatre and performances’ in its art. It was this idea of reality dubbed as art that later inspired Andy Warhol in his Campbell’s Soup

When one thinks of Art the most popular image is of great works, famous for their visually pleasing and intellectually rousing qualities. These works, aside from being visually and intellectually stimulating, have been used to challenge and encourage an audience to think about what it’s representing in flexible and open-minded ways, this is usually done by shocking the audience out of their “complacency” when viewing artworks. The great artists of the Conceptual Art movement especially emphasised this by focusing more on the concept behind a piece than the art itself. Three particular artists that are famous for challenging audiences with their work include Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), Jenny Holzer (1950-present) and Ai WeiWei (1957-present). Even though these three artists are part of different times, countries, political and cultural movements, they all use their works to confront and challenge every part of their audience including critics, the media and the general public.

The art world is a forever changing system, with new ideas and concepts constantly emerging. Marcel Duchamp, working in a world where art was focused heavily on pleasing the eye, is seen to emerge with a new idea that aimed to challenge this ‘retinal’ approach that was expected of art during this time. Duchamp would call this new approach ‘the readymade’.
This essay will discuss how Duchamp used the readymade, specifically his 1913 piece Bicycle Wheel, to move away from the focus on the visual and shift attention to a focus on the conceptual. Likewise, this essay will explore how Duchamp’s readymade has influenced artists such as Jeff Koons, who similarly incorporated the conceptual focus of the readymade within his own 1981-87 readymade

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In a ‘tradition breaking spirit’ [D’Alleva, 2012], that characterised modernist artists, early in the twentieth century, Duchamp abandoned traditional ideas and techniques, to create a new kind of ‘art’, one that the idea behind a work of art is more important that its visual realization, the ‘retinal’. The ready-mades was the product of Duchamp’s questioning what art is.