Marcel DuChamp once said “I don’t believe in art. I believe in artist.” In his insistence that art should be driven by ideas above all, Marcel Duchamp is generally considered to be the father of Conceptual Art. Marcel DuChamp was born in 1887 to a family of artists. He was raised in Normany, France, where he played chess, enjoyed reading, painting, and music. He joined his older brothers in Paris to study painting at the Academie Julian. He really seemed to enjoy the influences of Fauvism, Cubism, and Impressionism. But he was captivated by new approaches to color and structure. He reordered reality, rather than simply representing it. He was most attracted to avantgarde notions of the artist as an antiacademic, which is rather ironic that