Marcel Duchamp

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L.H.O.O.Q flouted contemporary, cultural, and artistic conventions, but with humor, not anger." (www.understandingduchamp.com). During his time in the Dada, he made the decision to stop painting and began making "ready-mades" or everyday objects. One of his well known "ready-mades," the urinal, ironically named Fountain...
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One of his well known "ready-mades," the urinal, ironically named Fountain. With "ready-mades," Duchamp was proving that seeing was a physically creative process as well as a psychological one. The "ready-mades" were supposed to arouse the minds of the beholders instead of the eyes. He felt that on-lookers were just looking with the eye and not the mind, and "not seeing things as thoroughly or accurately as we might suppose...
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