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Marcel Duchamp

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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

Artist auction records

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.  askART lists Marcel Duchamp in 4 of its research Essays. Marcel Duchamp has 3 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Marcel Duchamp available:    Naum Gabo,  Robert Delaunay,  Sonia Terk Delaunay,  Jean Hans Arp,  Guenther Uecker,  Gunther Forg,  Rachel Whiteread,  Otto Dix,  Paul Klee,  Auguste Herbin,  Piet Cornelis Mondrian,  Cecily Brown,  Jean Jansem,  Lynda Benglis,  Maurice Denis,  Ernst Wilhelm Nay,  Moise Kisling,  Max Ernst,  Francisco Lopez,  Gilbert & George,  Carlos Cruz-Diez,  Yves Tanguy,  Paul Delvaux,  Enrico Baj



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Marcel Duchamp


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Europe
Art Association
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Artist Colony
  • Ridgefield, New Jersey
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim, New York City
  • Little Galleries of Photo Secession 291, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
  • Armory Show 1913, New York

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