ArtistInfo

Marcel Duchamp

voc, 1887-1968 FR, Blainville-Crevon
Classical and Spoken Word

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp ([maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃] ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retina

Genres

• Classical
• Spoken Word
• Electronic

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