Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind. He is considered by many critics to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, and his output influenced the development of post–World War I Western art. He challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and rejected the emerging art market, through subversive anti-art. He famously dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain.
Known For Acting
Most Rating 4.497
Birthday 1887-07-28
Place of Birth Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
Also Known As Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp,
Entr'acte
1924

Entr'acte

Witch's Cradle
1944

Witch's Cradle

Paris: The Luminous Years
2010

Paris: The Luminous Years

Uncertain Verification
1965

Uncertain Verification

8 X 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957

8 X 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

Lafayette, We Come
1918

Lafayette, We Come

Merce by Merce by Paik
1978

Merce by Merce by Paik

Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp
1966

Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
2020

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable
2009

Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable

Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess
1963

Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess

A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
1956

A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

Dadascope
1961

Dadascope

Europe After the Rain
1978

Europe After the Rain

The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
1966

The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse

Dada
1969

Dada

Grimace
1967

Grimace