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    Marcel Duchamp was a French artist born in 1887 who was a pioneer in modern art. He was raised in a family of artists in Normandy. In his early career, he painted in a post-Impressionist style but became interested in avant-garde notions and challenged traditional definitions of art. In 1915, he immigrated to New York and began creating "readymades," mundane mass-produced objects designated as art. Throughout his career he explored ideas around sexuality, identity and what constitutes art. Duchamp died in 1968 and is still remembered today for his radical innovations and transformations of art.

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    Marcel Duchamp was a French artist born in 1887 who was a pioneer in modern art. He was raised in a family of artists in Normandy. In his early career, he painted in a post-Impressionist style but became interested in avant-garde notions and challenged traditional definitions of art. In 1915, he immigrated to New York and began creating "readymades," mundane mass-produced objects designated as art. Throughout his career he explored ideas around sexuality, identity and what constitutes art. Duchamp died in 1968 and is still remembered today for his radical innovations and transformations of art.

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    Biography of Marcel Duchamp

    Fast Facts: Marcel Duchamp

    Famous Quotes: "The painting is no longer a decoration to be hung in the dining room or living room.
    We have thought of other things to use as decoration."

    Full Name: Henri – Robert - Marcel Duchamp, also known as Rrose Sélavy

    Occupation: Artist

    Born: July 28, 1887 in Blainville, Normandy, France

    Parents' Names: Eugene and Lucie Duchamp

    Died: October 2, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

    Education: One year of school at the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris (flunked out)

    Childhood

    Marcel Duchamp was raised in Normandy, in a family of artists.

    Landscape at Blainville (1902) -one of Marcel's earliest artworks, painted at age fifteen, reflected his
    family's love of Claude Monet.

    Early Training

    Paris in the early 1900s was the ideal place for Duchamp to become acquainted with modern trends in
    painting.

    Made his first painting, Church in Blainville, at the age of 15, and enrolled in the Academie Jullian at
    Paris's École des Beaux-Arts.

    Nude Descending A Staircase (1912), - one of the early paintings that illustrate Duchamp's interest in
    machinery and its connection to the body's movement through space, implicit in early Modernism.

    Duchamp was most attracted to avant-garde notions of the artist as an anti-academic.

    Mature Period

    In 1911, Marcel Duchamp met Francis Picabia, and the following year attended a theater adaptation of
    Raymond Roussel's Impressions d'Afrique with Picabia and Guillaume Apollinaire.

    Felt that as a painter it was much better to be influenced by a writer than by another painter.

    This interest in cross-genre pollination would influence the artist to develop an eclectic approach to art
    making.
    In 1915, Duchamp immigrated to New York and conceived and manufactured several readymades.

    Duchamp laid claim to found objects, such as a snow shovel, a urinal, or a bicycle wheel. These objects,
    tied symbolically to themes of desire, eroticism and childhood memory, were designed to show the
    absurdity of canonizing avant-garde art practice.

    Later Years

    Duchamp traveled between New York and Paris, participating in printed textual projects, sculptural
    installations, and collaborations in all mediums.

    According to research by curator and writer Catherine Craft, Duchamp's readymades actually preceded
    the founding of the Dada movement in Zurich

    Rrose Selavy (1923), an alternate female persona adopted by Duchamp, to fully explore ideas of sexual
    identity.

    He continued to make readymades and exhibited his famous Bottle Rack series - an edition of eight
    bottle racks signed by Duchamp - in 1936.

    Etant donnes was Duchamp's last work. The work consists of a wooden door set in a brick frame. Inside
    the door are two peepholes, through which the viewer can see a deeply disturbing scene of a naked
    woman lying on a bed of twigs and holding a lit gaslight.

    Death and Legacy

    Marcel Duchamp died at his home in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on October 2, 1968.

    To this day, he is remembered as one of the great innovators in modern art.

    He invented new ways of thinking about what art can be and radically transformed ideas about culture.

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