Marcel Duchamp: Readymade Art

The piece that I will be covering in this essay is known as the L.H.O.O.Q., which was produced by the artist and chess player Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp was a French naturalized American painter who lived from July 28th, 1887 – October 2nd, 1968. He was born at Blainville-Crevon in Normandy, France while being raised by a family with interest that included cultural activities that later would be influenced his artwork. Duchamp grew up in a house with the painter and engraver Émile Frédéric Nicolle, which was his maternal grandfather. While being raised the family enjoyed playing chess, reading books and composing music together. When first creating his work, Duchamp expressed his art to be known as “readymade”. Readymade art involves taking prefabricated, mass-produced objects that are isolated from their functional context, and designing it as art. Duchamp believed he could alter famous paintings within the eyes of historians and art critics without them noticing what he had done. His method believed he could distract them with graffito and a conceivable Dada (a concept that is against the traditional values and artistic practices manufactured during World War 1). His piece L.H.O.O.Q., produced in

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