Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchampwas 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...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth28 July 1887
CityBlainville-Crevon, France
Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists
I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.
Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.
I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.
Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.
I was poking fun at myself most of all.
It is the spectators who make the pictures.
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
There is no solution, for there is no problem.
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.