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Marcel Duchamp Analysis

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Two artists who have sought to interpret the world in new ways were Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso. Marcel Duchamp was born on 28, July 1887,in blainville - crevon , France and on Died 2 October 1968 in neuilly-sur-seine, France. Duchamp worked across many art movements but he was most famous as Dada artist. Two of his most well-known artworks are fountain (1917) , L.H.O.O.Q (1919). Duchamp interpreted world in new ways to give the audience a taste for jokes, and subversive humor. He characterizes his works and makes for much of its enjoyment. He fashioned puns out of everyday expressions which he sent through visual means. . Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain and Picasso Died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France. Picasso was known working in various art movements but hes mostly noted for a cubist artist. Two of his famed cubist artworks are Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910) , Girl with mandolin (1910). Picasso …show more content…

Dada was born out of negative reaction and it introduced logic, nonsense and irrationality. He also introduced collage into artworks, reformed in an offensive manner and represents every emotion in the artist world views and to capture the contemporary scenes at the time. Duchamp used variety of materials to create his Dada artworks which includes canvases, montage, newspapers and magazines. He used a variety of colours and images depending on the idea he wanted to portray. Duchamp added random everyday objects to create a new pictorial perspective. Images + magazines were very important parts of the composition to capture, used composition inspired by world events. They experimented with jumbling up photographs or photo-shopping them to create original photographs, made up but on the face of it looks real.Dada artists Glue many pieces of small paper together, to create an overlapping on one background to form an

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