Marcel Duchamp Assignment

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Marcel Duchamp

Year 9 Visual Arts Assessment Task

By Darcy Imrie 9VA1

The ideal traditional art piece was something to be looked at, a piece that was clearly what it was, without needing to be dissected the traditional art was about form and function, it had a clear form like a painting of a house or it was functional like an ornate chair, but Duchamp and many artists after him changed the way we look at art, from pleasing the eye to interpreting what the artist’s motives were.
Duchamp created art pieces that were very much influenced by Futurism such as Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2. Though other movements like Dada and Surrealism influenced Duchamp’s artworks as well, like Fountain and L.H.O.O.Q. most of these artworks influenced other artists, and in turn and created more love of what was Duchamp’s art.
Above Right: Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2, Marcel Duchamp, 1912, oil on canvas 147cm X 89cm. Above Left: Bicycle Wheel, (second version, after lost original of 1913). Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, 1.29m high. Far Right: replica of L.H.O.O.Q., Marcel Duchamp, 1919, colour reproduction of the Mona Lisa altered with a pencil, 19.7cm X 12.7cm. Right: Fountain (urinal), Marcel Duchamp, 1917, “ready-made” with R. Mutt 1917 written in black, 61cm high.
Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 depicts a naked woman walking down a flight of stairs the futuristic part of this artwork is the kinetic shadow of the motion and the round overlapping steps. This piece is a humorous attack on the academic art society’s way of looking at nudity, and by doing so changed the way all art was created and criticised (as have many of Duchamp’s works) but this is a very different piece because it is a painting, not a readymade like most other influential works he created.
L.H.O.O.Q. is an artwork that has been very significant, even today artists are still

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