Marcel Duchamp was one of the worst things that could have happened in XX century , till this days you are accommodated with some (called) artists insanity.
Duchamp appropriated the urinal without crediting the original “creator”, his friend Elsa vov Freytag-Loringhoven , except for one letter to his sister. The incriminating evidence was later published by Duchamp’s biographer, Francis Naumann: “April II [1917] My dear Suzanne- impossible d’écrire. (in the Parisian French of 1917, this meant ‘nothing much to write about’, re Dr. Glynn Thompson.) - I heard from Crotti that you were working hard. Tell me what you are making and if it’s not too difficult to send. Perhaps, I could have a show of your work in the month of October or November-next-here. But tell me what you are making- Tell this detail to the family: The Independents have opened here with immense success. One of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture it was not at all indecent-no reason for refusing it. The committee has decided to refuse to show this thing. I have handed in my resignation and it will be a bit of gossip of some value in New York- I would like to have a special exhibition of the people who were refused at the Independents-but that would be a redundancy! And the urinal would have been lonely- See you soon, Affect. Marcel." read more-->legrady.com/writing/history.html
I admire Duchamp’s whole career, but I’m absolutely floored by his earlier paintings. The understanding of motion mixed with a deliberate distortion of it is mesmerizing. With his more provocative works, I don’t see much beauty in them, although I still respect their place in history and the statements they made.
This is absolutely incredible!!! This has to be the most beautiful documentary I’ve seen in my NHD career. What programs/techniques did you use for it to turn out like this? Honestly the fact that this didn’t win is criminal.
Some people love art as an aspirational activity, as something that humans can attempt to transcend our animal nature.and seek beauty and excellence. For such people, Duchamp and anti-art isittle more than an act of subversive juvenile delinquency.
You forget that "The Large Glass" had an inadvertent addition to its design. In moving the piece to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the shipping people managed to crack the piece. In discovering this, Duchamp made no attempt at fixing the damage, he instead incorporated it into the piece, and stabilized it. Also, the first installation of "The Fountain" actually got disposed of by the custodial staff since they saw it as just a urinal, which it is, just with a signature on it.
“L.H.O.O.Q. is a pun; the letters pronounced in French sound like ‘Elle a chaud au cul,’ ‘She is hot in the arse,’ or ‘She has a hot ass.’ ‘Avoir chaud au cul" is a vulgar expression implying that a woman has sexual restlessness. In a late interview, Duchamp gives a loose translation of L.H.O.O.Q. as ‘there is fire down below.’”
“In 1935 André Breton attributed the urinal to Duchamp, but it wasn’t until 1950, long after the artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had died and four years after Alfred Stieglitz’s death, that Duchamp began to take credit for the piece and authorise replicas.”
' I think that good conceptual art can exist. What bothers me is that so much attention and value is given to clearly bogus art and artists. Conceptual art was initially an attack on traditional visual arts calling them worthless, self indulgent decoration. I would like to see Sol Lewitt stand in front of Paul Cezanne and say that! What also bothers me is how Museums and art publications have relinquished their roles as guardians of quality. You do not see grand exhibitions of the work of Thomas Kinkade at The Metropolitan or at Boston's Museum of Fine Art. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3x5pKh3S2Xw.html And rightly so. But to see The Tate give a build up to Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons is a sign that they would rather exhibit the flashy current craze that they think draws the public and which is, to me, an abdication of their function as custodians of quality. Conceptual art is, essentially, a 180 degree departure from what we have traditionally thought of as “art”. And by art, I mean the visual arts: painting, drawing, sculpture architecture etc. The big problem is that while the traditional visual arts have a millenniums long history, this new kid on the block does not. Sculpture has evolved from The Venus of Willendorf to the Great Sphinx, the Venus De Milo, Michelangelo's David up to Rodin, the Statue of Liberty and Alexander Calder. The arts of painting and drawing can be traced back to the cave paintings of Lascaux in France to The Sistine Chapel, Monet and Degas, Mark Rothko and beyond. And through all of the changes, these art forms have stayed essentially the same:making marks on paper, canvas, wood, plaster etc. and building up forms in three dimensions as sculpture and architecture. Along with the evolution of these art genres has developed a language and a set of criteria that form standards by which such pieces can be critiqued, evaluated and placed in historical context. And while some people might like the lurid landscapes of Thomas Kinkade, his paintings are not and should not be hung alongside the landscapes of Church, Cole, van Gogh, Cézanne and Thiebaud. There IS such a thing as bad art and we know what it looks like and why! It is called esthetics. This cannot be said of Conceptual art. All sorts of crappy, bogus and hare brained stuff is piled up or strewn across the floors of museums and exalted as art because no one knows or can know what is worthy and what is not. So you get pieces of blank white paper crumpled up in a ball, three basketballs suspended in a fish tank and cans of human excrement. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LKCtmumB-Sw.html Here is Koons' own ArtSpeak explanation of his floating basketball 'concept' verbatim: “ This is an ultimate state of being. I wanted to play with people’s desires. They desire this equilibrium. They desire pre-birth. I was giving a definition of life and death. This is the eternal. This is what life is like, also, after death. Aspects of the eternal” Rather lofty goals for 3 basketballs suspended in a fish tank!! Welcome to the wonderful, wacky world of Conceptual art !
