“Artists throughout the ages are like Monte Carlo gamblers and the blind lottery pulls some of them through and ruin others… …I do not believe in painting per se – A painting is made not by the artist but by those who look at it and grant it their favors. In other words, no painters knows himself or what he is doing” a quote by Marcel Duchamp. I feel that there is no definition term for “Modern Art’’. However, surrealism, Dadaism, expressionisms, imagism, futurism and vorticisms make modern art. “Modern’’ refers to art made from the beginning of the twentieth century until after World War II. Which is usually associated with art from the past, traditional art. Moving away from the traditional notion of art and creates artworks that were more about what they were …show more content…
As surrealism and Dadaism influenced Duchamp’s early artworks, it is not wrong to use unwanted items into an art piece and as he was in the modern art movement period, which is to create new ideas, so he was just challenging the very definition of art. Since that Dada was not much a style of art like the cubism, it was more of a protest with an anti establishment manifesto so Marcel Duchamp wanted to react to it by using a urinal, to show he was pissed against “anti -art’’, like how people piss in the urinal. I feel that Marcel Duchamp did not want to be stereotype, he want to break free from reality and wanted to show to the industrial world that he is embracing art. Duchamp is changing the mindset of art, pushing the boundaries of what art is. He once also mentioned that why are we painting what you see, it is just a duplicate of nature, where there is no interacting but visuals only. Marcel Duchamp declared similar “readymade” artworks to challenge the notion of a work of art as something pretty done by a technically skilled