Category — Painting

Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements.  As an Assemblage artist he used the process of making artistic compositions from putting together found objects.
“Duchamp painted few canvases after 1912, and in those he did, he attempted to remove “painterly” effects, and instead used a technical drawing approach.”

What I like most about his work is the simplistic colors that lets the figures tell the story. It tells a story about a specific time and in a specific setting.  The hard structures show the technical aspects he brought to all of his artistic pieces of work.  It has complex shapes with subtle details in it.

Here’s another one I enjoyed.  He participated in the Armory Show and one of his paintings was depicted in this stamp.  The paining is titled Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2. In the composition, Duchamp depicted motion by successive superimposed images.  A lot of what we’ve been talking about in my class lately.

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