Essays on Duchamp

The 1912 Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 painting sparked a historical uproar ever known in the world of art. The art faced scads of rejection, mockery and worst of it, a presidential put-down, but eventually, the piece rose to be ranked as a masterpiece. This art possessed some hidden facts; it reimagines the humanity through a monochromatic lens in preserving the cubism, a century after its completion, the art is displayed in cubist art exhibits. Duchamp’s applications of twenty unique static positions displayed a sense visual violence and movement that the cubists affirmed made ...

In the mid-1960s and already on the peak of his popularity Andy Warhol carried the products of mass-production and, usually, highly popular among the consumers products into the realm of sculpture. The stack of boxes can remind a factory, in fact, the boxes were made by carpenters he employed and painted ‘with assistance from Gerard Malanga and Billy Linich and silkscreens the with logos’ [Warhol.org]. The gallery with the sculptures looked more like a warehouse with different products as the boxes were very similar to the real ones. The work of art was so ordinary and mundane it caused ...

Marcel Duchamp was a French and American painter, chess player, sculptor, and writer who worked with conceptual art, Cubism, and Dadaism. He is mostly famous for the influence he had on the art of the twentieth century and especially Pop Art represented by Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, etc. Duchamp to Pop is the Norton Simon Museum’s exhibition aimed to show the impact of Marcel Duchamp over Pop Art and its artists. The purpose of this paper is to analyze one of Duchamp’s works, Boîte-en-valise, and discover the way it influenced on the Pop Art movement. Boî ...

The Ivy Bridge Devonshire (see fig. 1) was an oil painting created by the famous English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner from 1814 to 1815. The term ‘scenery porn’ aptly describes the artist’s magnificent use of lines as decorative element to create wonderful landscapes. The colors were mostly earth tones with chiaroscuro was highly executed, creating an unworldly appearance that illustrates the peaceful life of the common people in the early 19th century England. The painting shows a young man wearing a beret hat, running across the bridge towards the carriage probably echoing shouts to halt the carriage ...