Marcel Duchamp and His influence on Modern sculpture

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Marcel Duchamp and His influence on Modern
sculpture
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In Advance of The Broken Arm 1915 (First
Readymade)Mona Lisa 1919Why Not Sneeze
Rrose Selavy 1921Bicycle wheel 1913 (first
kinetic sculpture)

• Duchamps Readymades From top left to right

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Fountain 1917

• Marcel Duchamp challenged the
• notion of what constituted art.
• Because of This, at the end of his
• life, he acknowledged that the
• concept of the readymade was his
• most important contribution to art.
• In the Surrealist dictionary by
• Paul Eluard and Andre Breton, a
• Readymade is defined as,
• An ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a
  work of art by the mere choice of the artist.
• In Marcel Duchamps own words
• It was always the idea that came
• first, not the visual example. he
• said, .a form of denying the
• possibility of defining art.
• At right Fountain 1917

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Left, Pablo Picassossynthetic cubist piece,
Still life with wicker caning Picasso and
Georges Braque were the first artists to bring
the real world into their art.On the right
One of Joseph Cornells shadow boxes, Hotel Eden

• Below (from l to r) Damien Hirsts Away from
  the Flock, (1994)
• Robert Rauschenbergs combine painting,
  Monogram, 1955
• Far right another combine painting by
  Rauschenberg

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• To the left, Robert Rauschenbergs Bed,1955
• Above Tracey Emins, My Bed, 1998

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• Look at the following artists work
• Joseph Beuys
• Jean Tinguely
• Damien Hirst
• Rachel Whiteread
• Look up Installation and conceptual art
• Look up the term modernism
• Ask yourself these questions
• 1/How would you define art?
• 2/ Which of the above artists are true artists,
  if there is such a thing?
• 3/ What should a true artist do?
• 4/ What should the artists role in society be?
• 5/ Is art an effective means of communication? if
  so, why? If not, why not?
• 6/ There are some who think Modernism is dead.
  Why would they think this?