Marcel Duchamp’s “the Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even”

On his reading, Nudity a la Grecque in 1799, ___________ explains the controversy of one of the most famous paintings of the Neo-classical artist, Jacques-Louis David, the Intervention of the Sabines (1799). This beautiful and controversial painting was characterized by the juxtaposition of male and female nude figures, its impact within women fashion and their power of intervention on society, as well as the David’s intent to represent on his paintings the social and political transformations in France during that time.

Marcel Duchamp’s Fresh Widow was created in 1920, and is on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Fresh Widow is a bluish green miniature French window, which he constructed with wood and leather. The Fresh Widow is considered to be a part of the Dadaist period and retains qualities of dadaism in that it is a stand alone object, that has been completely stripped of its utility and function. In addition, across the window sill, Duchamp wrote “COPYRIGHT” in capitalized black letters referring to the classic dadaist rejection of the commodification or reproduction of art. Duchamp created the Fresh Widow two years after the end of World War I. World War I was traumatizing and horrific for most of Europe, with millions of men being killed. The timing of Duchamp’s Fresh Widow, the title, as well as the form of his piece all work together to represent the losses felt by wives in France during the war. The use of a French window that has been blacked out by black leather, as well as the bluish-green color of the wood is a reference to the macabre realities of war and the

Both artistic movements Dadaism and surrealism both depicted the human form in varying ways. The pieces Monument II: Vanity (1926) by Hannah Hoch and Untitled Photogram (1929) by Maurice Tabard, both exemplify the attempts made by each respective movement to depict human bodies in unconventional ways. Following the war, an expansion of industrial innovations emerged and had a significant impact on the content produced by Dada artists. The mechanization of the human form was developed out of the post-war industrialization and is most significantly apparent in Hoch’s work where her rendering of the human body appears mechanized or manufactured, this was achieved by the artist through her unique use of the collage technique which would reconstruct

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) is an article about the life of famous artist, Marcel Duchamp and his reasoning behind his art pieces. By the time World War One broke out, Duchamp was disgusted by the works of other artists, claiming that they were working to only please the eyes and that there was no real meaning behind their works. Initially a traditional painter, painting impressionist paintings before shifting towards cubism, Duchamp was rejected by the artistic community, who claimed that his works were too different, even the Parisian

Picasso is an abstract artist, and therefore is thought of as “unskilled,” by the way he accentuates parts of the human figure. Picasso’s art had the most impact on the twentieth century. Even though he suggests going against what he had learned academically, it is important to know that he had started at a very young age. His father was a drawing teacher and a conservator at a small museum. Soon after his father became a professor at the art academy in Barcelona, the young Picasso completed the entrance examinations and was accepted to the school’s upper-level program. Picasso went to Paris determined to work through the avant-gardes’ techniques and subjects to better understand such art.

Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the punk scene in New York as a street-smart graffiti artist. He successfully crossed over his downtown origins to the international art gallery circuit. Basquiat’s work is one of the few examples of how an early 1980’s American graffiti-based could become a fully recognized artist. Despite his work’s unstudied appearance, Basquiat very skillfully and purposefully brought together in his art a host of disparate traditions, practices and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage. His work is an example of how American artists of the 1980’s could reintroduce the human figure in their work after the wide success of minimalism and conceptualism.

Visual opulence, creativity, inimitable vision, and a style that is highly influential are the many characteristics of an admired movement in art history, that being of the Post-Impressionism movement (1875-1892). This movement, which was a by-product of the Impressionism movement, is the bridging gap between the two movements known as Realism and Expressionism. Post-Impressionism takes on some of the stylistic characteristics of these movements; however, it does not contain the all too glossy visuals of Realism or the heavily fantastic visuals of Expressionism, rather it is the intermediary of these two poles. My paper will discuss why this link was absolutely essential to the history of art movements, and I will be specifically using the

Nude Descending Staircase, no.2 is by Marcel Duchamp who is best known as a painter and mixed media artist associated with Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism, although he himself avoided any alliances. His work is characterised by its humour and the variety and unconventionality of its media. He was passionate in his belief that ideas should be given more value than worldly things, a revolutionary notion that would resonate with a later generation.

As he was uttering all this, I wrote it all down, trying to make it fit into the significance behind the discovery of his signature style. He went on to tell me big part of the story follows the departure from his parents’ side. He said he went on to travel the globe, he studied art in Paris, found the love of his life. He commented that the sheer joy of just living life the way he wanted to steer it, allowed him to collect a bundle of memories and that it all has inspired his art. Life itself is a ceaseless source of inspiration and it morphed into his primary artistic influence: “I didn’t just sit one day and said ‘I’m going to have my own distinguished style.’ My art depicts aspects that are part of our normality—we just aren’t aware of

One thing I found interesting is with Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase is that it follows the notion with Jirousek’s photo art, that it a time-lapse photography. I am not a fan of his work, and I believe the uproar that came about due to his painting was just, even though it was for a different reason, I do not like it because it is very abstract and hard to

I am certain that while I was sketching the work, I became an obstacle for many of the other patrons of the Art Institute, which is one of the reasons I sat down. But from this vantage point I had the opportunity to marvel at the grand scope of this composition. Gustave Calliebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day has the peculiar ability to exist in duality. Standing close to the canvas, I could feel myself pulled into the scene that took place over 120 years ago. I could feel the dampness in my hair and smell the rain on my clothes, although I must attribute at least part of that to the rainy Chicago weather I encountered before entering the museum. From a closer perspective, the life-size characters effectively contribute to the realism of the piece. The immense size of the painting itself helps to incorporate the viewer into the scene. Being close, it feels as though this Parisian intersection could wrap around you, and standing there I would not be terribly surprised if I turned around to see nothing but the rest of the street, continuing through the brick-laden

The message is depicting the life events of Christ and how significant they were and still are. This window was made well after the life of Christ so the fact that his life story was put into this window is significant and portrays the message of his importance. Knowing this window is in the Chartres Cathedral, one could see that in French Gothic times, Christ and his life was important to these people and their lives. The most important parts of his life and the people he associated with are in this window so they play some significance in these people’s lives of this time. My connection to this art piece is pretty simple. I believe in Christ and his life and all that he did so to see this picture and each of its stories told and shown in a popular place is important to me. I recognize and know the meaning behind many of the window panels. This window is significant to me because Christ lived and died for me and this is all shown in this

I could say I thought about that famous poem about Duchamp’s painting, but I didn’t. I could say that I thought how he drew from the futurists or competed with a new invention -movies - to depict a woman in motion as she took the stairs one step at a time. I didn’t,

When it comes to art, the artist generally leaves his or her creation open for interpretation. Rene Magritte, on the other hand, tells the observer exactly what to think and what to feel. His art engages those who gaze upon it. During his lifetime, the Surrealist movement was at its zenith. Magritte’s distinct painting style majorly influenced parts of the Surrealist movement.

that Duchamp was conceptualising, an idea registered in a title rather than any sense of artisanship or manufacture.