Who Influenced Marcel Duchamp

Continued Influence of Marcel Duchamp

You cannot begin a research paper about ones influence on art, other artists, and societies view about art as a whole without first getting to know the actual person who influenced all of these people and the ones who influenced this profound human being. The concept of artwork has been challenged since the beginning of time, people were always asking to this day what is and what is not considered art.

The answer to this question is strictly up to each person’s likes and dislikes, but one cannot argue that artwork comes in all forms, shapes, and sizes. I believe that anything can become a piece of art and all it takes is a little imagination. Below you are going to see just how one person’s imagination changed the view of an entire world. This great artists and idealist was born on July 28, 1887 near Blainville, France under the name Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp. From the beginning Marcel was gifted partly because his family was made up of talented artists, his brothers Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon studied art in Paris where Marcel joined them in 1904. Marcel began his work as Post-Impressionist at the Académie Julian until 1905. Even at the age of 21 Marcel’s work was being exhibited at the Salon des Independents and the Salon d’Automne in Paris. Beginning around 1911 Marcel

When was the last time you were watching television and did not see a commercial about reclaiming antiques, older homes, vintage cars, and etc...? All of these can be considered art. That is just the point anything can be considered art, anything that each individual person deems fit to be considered a piece of art. Before Duchamp the only pieces of art were the pieces that were hanging up on the wall in homes or on exhibit, sculptures, and