Marcel Theroux

I. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968): Marcel Duchamp (hereinafter referred to as ‘Duchamp’), was a 20th century French artist. He is considered to be of the era in which Art and particularly Paintings were influenced by elements such as constant change, transition, fluidity, movement and distance etc. He’s considered as a pioneer of ‘DADA’, a movement that questioned the deep rooted assumptions about ‘what art should be’ and ‘how it should be made’ . He himself was intrigued by the concept of a fourth

Marcel Duchamp revolutionized the art world with his readymade works of art. He took objects from everyday life and turned them into works of art. He posed the question of what can be considered art and who gets to decide what art is. Duchamp believed it was the viewer who by giving meaning the object decided it was a work of art. He took art into the realm of ideas and thoughts by ignoring the rules of aesthetic and what is considered to be beautiful works of art. In Duchamp’s first readymade Bycicle

'The Fantastic Corpse' is Chaotic in the Best Way In The Fantastic Corpse, five directors come together in an nontraditional way to make a single film. We've all heard the expression 'too many cooks spoil the broth,' or something similar, and in many cases, the truism does hold true. In many projects, having more than two artistic visions, sometimes eve n just more than one, will result in the visions clashing in a way that detracts from both visions and serves to weaken the entire project. However

builds on the Duchampian tradition of ready-made materials in the production of art. Koons brings the art objects out of mainstream culture and pushes them to their ultimate limit, compared to the ordinary and frequently mass produced objects that Marcel Duchamp reimagined as art objects such as the bicycle wheel and the urinal. For Duchamp however, this act was one of supreme skepticism. As the New York Review of Books art critic Jed Perl explains in his critique of Jeff Koons’ Whitney Museum Retrospective

R Mutt’s Fountain, is considered one of Duchamp’s most famous works, and “is widely seen as an icon of twentieth century art” . The original, which is lost, consisted of a standard urinal, presented on its back, with “R Mutt 1917” written on the side of it. Although the original was lost, 17 known replicas have been made from glazed earthenware, painted to resemble the original porcelain. R Mutt’s Fountain has been seen as an ultimate example of what Duchamp called a ‘readymade’; an ordinary manufactured

ReadyMade was a do-it-yourself magazine targeting adults in their 20’s and 30’s (millennials). This group of individuals want to express their creativity with new hip trendy ideas. ReadyMade gave it to them, by showing how to do things themselves by individualizing products and saving them money at the same time. Also, the readers contributed a lot of ideas to ReadyMade. Millennials are more apt to go green, so they are finding ways to reuse materials they already have and yet be creative in

Thomas Carlyle, a famous Scottish philosopher known for his poetry, and morality once said, “It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has beings.” This quote relates to Pearl in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne because of her ability to make her own moral choices apart from those of her mother, or the townspeople. Throughout the novel, the letter A, the rose, and nature all symbolize Pearl and her morality. To begin, the letter A is presumably a symbol