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Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) was active/lived in New York, California / France.  Marcel Duchamp is known for Dada, avant-garde, cubism, assemblage.

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Marcel Duchamp, born in Blainville, France, became a painter and sculptor who was part of the early 20th-century Dada movement that blurred the boundaries between these two aspects of fine art. In league with Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hans Arp, Man Ray, and Kurt Schwitters, Duchamp held to the Dada credo that "everything the artist spits out is art." (Mayer 105)

Duchamp made his first big impression in the American art scene with his entry of Nude Descending the Staircase at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. This event was the first organized exhibition in the United States that included avant-garde artwork from Europe, and the biggest French names were Picasso and Braque. However, Duchamp and his artist brothers, Jacques Villon, and Raymond Duchamp-Villon received the most advance publicity of the French entries, because the press built them up "as a family of avant-garde artists; pictures of them in their garden at Puteaux were the only photographs of contemporary Eur   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4515 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Marcel Duchamp

   Marcel Duchamp  Born:  1887 - Blainville-Crevon, France
Died:   1968 - Paris, France
Known for:  Dada, avant-garde, cubism, assemblage

Marcel Duchamp, born in Blainville, France, became a painter and sculptor who was part of the early 20th-century Dada movement that blurred the boundaries between these two aspects of fine art. In league with Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hans Arp, Man Ray, and Kurt Schwitters, Duchamp held to the Dada credo that "everything the artist spits out is art." (Mayer 105)

Duchamp made his first big impression in the American art scene with his entry of Nude Descending the Staircase at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. This event was the first organized exhibition in the United States that included avant-garde artwork from Europe, and the biggest French names were Picasso and Braque. However, Duchamp and his artist brothers, Jacques Vi  ...  Displaying 750 of 4515 characters.

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