Dali And Duchamp Essay

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For Dali /Duchamp review, my team had an educational visit to Royal Academy of arts art gallery in London, which I collected different 20 century art pieces and art works from Dali and Duchamp as part of my inspirations and research. This exhibition brings around eighty art works pieces, including some of Dali’s most inspired and technically accomplished paintings and technically accomplished paintings and sculptures. This exhibition also showcases the less familiar photographs by Dali’s paintings by Duchamp. This exhibition focused exploration offers fresh ways of looking at two figures, radically revising their familiar places in art history. Dali became the first artist celebrity, whitle Duchamp preferred to go underground.Salvador Dali was born, in Figures, Spain. From an early age Dali was encouraged to practice his art. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began interacting with artists such as Picasso (1881-1973), and Magritte (1898- 1967) , which led to Dali's first Surrealist phase. Marcel Duchamp was born in Blainville, Normandy, France. Duchamp was the son of a notary and the younger brother of the painter Jacques Villon and the Cubist sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon.There are two items …show more content…

“In his twenties, he attended adaption of Raymond Roussel’s Impression d’Afrique with Picadbia and Guillaume Apollinaire.” From this experience, which made deep impression on Duchamp. Duchamp noticed that the first time he “felt that as painter it was much better to be influenced by a writer than by another painter” this would influence him to develop an eclectic approach to art making. Duchamp renounced painting and invented READYMADE. After immigrated to New York, Duchamp laid claim to found object, such as a bicycle wheel which tires to symbolized the themes of desire, eroticism and childhood memory, therefore to show absurdity of canonizing Avanti- grade art