Except for certain periods of absence, Leonardo’s mona lisa It has been on display at the Louvre for 228 years. Although this painting was created by Italians in Italy, it has long been part of French culture. At some point, La JocondeAs, mona lisa Known locally, it reached such popularity that it inspired the label jocondism. for Marcel Duchampit all seemed a bit much. In 1919, he bought a postcard with the most famous of all paintings, painted a mustache and goatee on it, and called the result a “work of art.” LukeFrench pronunciation “Elle a show au cru” translates, as Duchamp modestly put it, as “there is fire below.”
A century ago, this would have been an extremely irreverent, even sacrilegious act, but it was also to be expected from a man who signed a urinal and displayed it in a gallery a few years ago. As has been highly scrutinized, fountain, Luke This was one of Duchamp’s “readymades,” or artistic provocations carried out by modifying and recontextualizing found objects.
Neither was unique. Just as Duchamp signed several urinals, he also painted facial hair on several urinals (or not). mona lisa postcard. In one instance, he even gave permission to fellow artist Francis Picabia to create a work for publication in a New York magazine that was “on par with Marcel Duchamp.” However, the work was missing a goatee, an omission that the artist corrected himself some 20 years later.
in 1956 interview immediately aboveexplains Duchamp. Luke as part of his “Dada era” (and, with characteristic humility, “a great iconoclastic gesture on my part”). He also brought out a fake check (“not a bank at all”) that he had made for use at the dentist (which he had received). And a system designed to “bankrupt in Monte Carlo” (which stubbornly did not). “I believe that art is the only form of activity that allows humans to show themselves as truly human individuals and transcend their animal condition,” he declares. Due to his conflict, jocondism And even among the unlikely combinations he devised, such as Dada, he showed himself to be art’s greatest prankster of the early 20th century. And the prank went beyond entertainment and inspired an academic industry that continues today.
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