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"Has anyone drawn skibidi Duchamp’s Fountain yet"
–A discord user, about a minute before they saw the worst thing in the world. (1642)
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN A Perfect Day, 1999
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Happy Heavenly Birthday to Man Ray (1890-1976), the pioneer of visual art and “found objects.” He was born in American but spent most of his career in Paris, becoming an informal contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements surrounding him. His career intersected with Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and a hit list of actors, artists, dancers, filmmakers, and musicians. Despite Ray tagging himself as “just a painter,” he produced major works in a variety of media and is best known for his pioneering photography—specially fashion and portrait photography. He is also noted for his work with photograms (photographic images made not with a camera but with light exposure) which he called “Rayographs.” In the 1920s he directed and appeared in a number of avant-garde films, including the 1924 urban fantasy ENTR’ACTE (directed by René Clair). Ray appears with Frances Picabia, playing chess on a chessboard that transforms into a city center with busses and cars. I used this scene in a video for my song “It’s In Your Hands,” with music that quotes heavily from Erik Satie (who also appeared in ENTR’ACTE). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxReq4Xr-U8 Meanwhile, thank you Man for getting us to see the art in everything.
#manray #birthday #visualart #foundobjects #foundthings #Paris #dadaism #surrealism #salvadordali #marcelduchamp #pablopicasso #painter #photography #photogram #rayograph #avantgarde #reneclair #francespicabia #eriksatie #entracte #art #johnnyjblair #gnosseinnes
#johnny j blair#singer songwriter#music#singer at large#pop rock#san francisco#Man Ray#birthday#found objects#found things#Paris#Dadaism#surrealism#Dali#Duchamp#picasso#photogram#rayograph#avant garde#Rene Clair#Erik Satie#gnosseinnes
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Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose
Gender Performance in Photography
Jennifer Blessing
with contributions by Judith Halberstam, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nancy Spector, Carole-Anne Tyler, Sarah Wilson
Guggenheim Museum Publ., New York 1997, 224 pages, softcover, 27,30x33,65cm, ISBN 0-89207-185-0
euro 120,00
email if you want to buy [email protected]
Exhibition New York January 17- April 27, 1997
This important volume, whose title combines Gertrude Stein’s famous motto, “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” with the name of Marcel Duchamp’s feminine alter ego, Rrose Selavy, features portraits, self-portraits and photomontages in which the gender of the subject is highlighted through performance for the camera or through technical manipulation of the image. In many of the works, photography’s strong aura of realism and objectivity promotes a fantasy of total gender transformation. In other pieces, the photographic representation articulates an incongruity between the posing body and its assumed costume. Features work by Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hàch, Man Ray, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Yasumasa Morimura, Catherine Opie, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Inez van Lamsweerde and Andy Warhol.
02/05/24
#gender performance#photography books#Beaton#Brassai#Duchamp#Man Ray#Mapplethorpe#Cindy Sherman#Warhol#fashionbooksmilano
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09.08.24 Treasures from the Pompidou Museum, Paris.
Magneli, Delaunay , Legere x 2, Duchamp, Brauner x 4, Constat, Schoffer x 2, Millares, Arman, Rancillac, Panton, Broodthaers, Raynaud, Aaron S. Davidson / Melissa Dubbin
#Magneli#Delaunay#Legere#Duchamp#Brauner#Constat#Schoffer#Millares#Arman#Rancillac#Panton#Broodthaers#Raynaud#Aaron S. Davidson / Melissa Dubbin#contemporary art#Pompidou
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Marcel Duchamp minted over 300 editions of a slapdash drain stopper he made for his bathtub, in steel, silver, and bronze. This is the first I've seen that still had its little leather pouch, though.
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Jacques Villon
Yvonne Duchamp de face
1913
#jacques villon#french artist#french art#french painting#french painter#portrait#portrait art#portrait painting#portraiture#duchamp#cubism#cubist art#cubist#modern art#art history#aesthetictumblr#tumblraesthetic#tumblrpic#tumblrpictures#tumblr art#aesthetic#beauty#tumblrstyle
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thoughts on Duchamp's Fountain (1917)?
My favorite part about it is that I don't even like it that much, but the fact that literally everybody lost their shit about it and lose their shit about it to this day is one of the funniest things about art and art history imo
Also multiple people have pissed in it. Which, genuinely, I think is what Duchamp would want.
Fountain (1917) is about finding beauty in everyday objects, it's about how the history of an artwork adds to its impact on the viewer, it's about being able to derail literally any conversation on what is "art", it's about pissing off fascists, it's about making you the viewer stop and consider what art truly is.
and, critically,
it's a fucking urinal on its side with the name R. Mutt and the year written on it.
(duchamp is, also, legitimately one of my favorite artists, up there with dali, varo, and magritte)
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デュシャン風扇風機 Duchamp-style fan
Art on the Beach tripple091014 Beach of Nakijin Okinawa Island
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You don't argue with artists, you just say words, and they say words, and there is absolutely no connection. Absolutely none. Beautiful on both sides, full of new words and flourishing language and so forth, but no actual exchange and no understanding of the other one's ideas.
Marcel Duchamp, interviewed by Calvin Tomkins, 1964
#MarcelDuchamp#herecomethosetearsagain#art#Duchamp#CalvinTomkins#Calvin Tomkins#fallentreesbringrepercussions#Marcel Duchamp
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shower la ducha
Imagine a victorian duchess taking a shower. She is very prudish, so doesn’t take her clothes off, which makes it a big hassle. It takes forever.
A new work in a modern art museum: an crappy, cheap, plastic, dirty shower cabin. It’s by Marcel Duchamp (remember his porcelain urinal?), so it IS art. The cabin actually still smells a bit.
It’s a Dutch shower. (whatever that might mean to you, use your imagination)
Does the room have a shower? ¿La habitación tiene ducha?
Picture by Lisby on Flickr
#shower#ducha#duchess#Duchamp#marcel duchamp#spanish#vocabulary#vocab#hint#mem#mnemonic#wotd#word of the day
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Portrait of Rrose Sélavy, 1920
Meet Rrose Sélavy: Marcel Duchamp’s Female Alter Ego
Rrose Sélavy first appeared in 1920, but the second ‘r’ in her name wasn’t added until 1921 when she added her signature to Francis Picabia’s collage L’Oeil Cacodylate. Soon after, she began appearing in photographs taken by Man Ray, fashion photographer, fellow artist and informal Dada compatriot. The perfect Duchampian character, Rrose brought to life the artist’s well-marked and symbolic use of language as well as all the playfulness and irony of Dadaism. Her name, a pun on the French adage “Eros, c’est la vie,” has inspired everything from collections of surrealist poetry to an oyster bar in Manhattan.
Rrose personified everything about Duchamp’s art, from its wit and its ersatz aesthetic to its erotic undertones. A living, breathing double entendre, she is a figurehead of New York’s short-lived answer to Dada, the irreverent European art movement with beginnings in Zürich’s Cabaret Voltaire. In Man Ray’s portraits she appears in several guises, at times moth-eaten and decidedly masculine, and later, stylish and more fluent in the cues of feminine allure. A murky example of the former appeared on a perfume bottle that Duchamp labelled Belle Haleine (Beautiful Breath). Beyond photographs, she lives on as the author of particular works throughout his career, from writings to the animated film Anemic Cinema.
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Happy Heavenly Birthday to Man Ray (1890-1976), the pioneer of visual art and “found objects.” He was born in American but spent most of his career in Paris, becoming an informal contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements surrounding him. His career intersected with Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and a hit list of actors, artists, dancers, filmmakers, and musicians. Despite Ray tagging himself as “just a painter,” he produced major works in a variety of media and is best known for his pioneering photography—specially fashion and portrait photography. He is also noted for his work with photograms (photographic images made not with a camera but with light exposure) which he called “Rayographs.” In the 1920s he directed and appeared in a number of avant-garde films, including the 1924 urban fantasy ENTR’ACTE (directed by René Clair). Ray appears with Frances Picabia, playing chess on a chessboard that transforms into a city center with busses and cars. I used this scene in a video for my song “It’s In Your Hands,” with music that quotes heavily from Erik Satie (who also appeared in ENTR’ACTE). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxReq4Xr-U8 Meanwhile, thank you Man for getting us to see the art in everything.
#manray #birthday #visualart #foundobjects #foundthings #Paris #dadaism #surrealism #salvadordali #marcelduchamp #pablopicasso #painter #photography #photogram #rayograph #avantgarde #reneclair #francespicabia #eriksatie #entracte #art #johnnyjblair #gnosseinnes
#Man Ray#birthday#visual art#found objects#found things#Paris#Dadaism#surrealism#Dali#Duchamp#Picasso#photography#rene Clair#Frances Picabia#Erik Satie#Entracte#Johnny J Blair
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