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Tickets Search. Mutt' with a letter stating that it had no place in an art exhibition. Philosopher Stephen Hicks believed that Duchamp, who was quite familiar with the history of European art, was making a profoundly provocative statement with Fountain:. The artwork is not a special object - it was mass-produced in a factory. The experience of art is not exciting and ennobling - at best it is puzzling and mostly leaves one with a sense of distaste.
But over and above that, Duchamp did not select just any ready-made object to display. In selecting the urinal, his message was clear: Art is something you piss on. Books New. Signed Editions. Shop by Subject Art. Children's Books. Decorative Arts. The replicas were probably manufactured in Europe by a sanitary ware manufacturer using a conventional slip-cast technique. The sculpture appears to be a hollow fired clay construction with a bluish white glaze typical of mass produced urinals.
However the glaze does not appear to have been satisfactory and all the replicas were painted a dense white. Subsequent investigation showed that original paint layers, including a grey alkyd primer and titanium white alkyd top coat, were still present under several alternating layers of nitrocellulose paints and varnishes.
The underside of the sculpture is signed by the artist across the broken wing. A lacquered copper plate with engraved edition details is adhered to the centre of the underside.
A similar plate was fixed to all replicas editioned at this time. James Hall. The term readymade was first used by French artist Marcel Duchamp to describe the works of art he made from …. To coincide with the first exhibition to explore the inter-relationship between Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia, to be staged at …. Main menu additional Become a Member Shop. In Tate Modern. Artist Marcel Duchamp — Medium Porcelain. Collection Tate. Acquisition Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery Reference T Summary Display caption Technique and condition.
Thus, from the start, there was an interplay of Mutt: a fat little funny man, and Jeff: a tall thin man I wanted any old name. And I added Richard [French slang for money-bags]. Get it? The opposite of poverty. But not even that much, just R. Camfield , p. We are not even able to consult the object itself, since it disappeared early on, and we have no idea what happened to it … We do not even known with absolute certainty that Duchamp was the artist — he once attributed it to a female friend — and some of his comments raise fundamental questions regarding his intentions in this readymade.
Camfield commented on this reference to a woman: Even if we grant that he did not want his test of the Independents compromised by knowledge that Fountain had been submitted by a director of the organization, why did he mislead his sister in Paris? Was Fountain actually submitted by a female friend?
And if, indeed, a female friend sent Fountain to the Independents, must that mean that she and not Duchamp was the artist who conceived, selected, and altered the urinal — or might she have acted merely as the shipping agent whose participation kept Duchamp out of sight? The last possibility seems most plausible, but this point remains a mystery.
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Readymade The term readymade was first used by French artist Marcel Duchamp to describe the works of art he made from …. You might like Left Right.
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