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Marcel Duchamp

French Artist

Died when: 81 years 65 days (974 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

Marcel Duchamp

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (UK: /'dju???~/, US: /dju?'??~, dju?'???mp/, French: [ma?s?l dy??~]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work was associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.

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 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art, and he had a seminal influence on the development of conceptual art.

By the time of World War I he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (such as Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye.

Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind.


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