1915-23
Dada
Mixed media
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
‘The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, or The Large Glass’ was inspired by the author Raymond Roussel’s use of homophones. Duchamp often used puns and double meanings in his work.
Marcel Duchamp
Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Conceptual Art, Kinetic Art
Born: 28 July 1887, Normandy, France
Nationality: French
Died: 2 October 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Duchamp was a painter, sculptor, writer, and chess player whose work is most often associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse; Duchamp is regarded as one of the three artists who defined the revolutionary development in the plastic arts in the first decades of the 20th century. Duchamp’s developments in painting and sculpture had an enormous impact on 20th-century art. By challenging the notion of what is art with his readymades, Duchamp is one of the few artists who changed the course of art history. He sent shock waves across the art world that are still rippling today
