Marcel Duchamp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marcel Duchamp

French painter and sculptor

Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1887

Place of Birth: Blainville-Crevon, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 02-Oct-1968

Profession: photographer, actor, poet, librarian, engraver, painter, sculptor, chess player

Nationality: United States, France

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Marcel Duchamp

  • Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (; French: [ma?s?l dy??~]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.
  • He was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups.
  • 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 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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