Duchamp Research

Marcel Duchamp invented the art of readymades, which were basically everyday items on the street or in the home that he basically gave a title and signed it, than called it art. Sometimes he would even modify the objects, but only to a certain extent. He challenged the art world with the old question, basically what makes art, art and what i art and what isn't art. If you ask me, it was a brilliant idea, because, all in all, what is art if not everything. Everything is art, because everything is natural, thus once origination from the same place; nature.

cite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymades_of_Marcel_Duchamp

Duchamp's Large Glass Blog

The reading itself was very confusing, mainly the point of the machine never really got to me. The ideas none the less were rather interesting in the depth that they were capable of. The idea behind the bride and the bachelors and the separation between them , in the sense of what the machine represented brought a mysterious side to the whole thought process that Duchamp must have gone through when inventing this contraption. When reading about a work from a man like Duchamp, you really need to look at his work from an alternative perspective from your original. A different kind of thinking has to go into it. The idea of 'mind, body and spirit' all come together when discussing his work, because all these pieces intertwine. Overall, the reading although difficult brings out the absolute 'craziness' in a sense of what Duchamp's mind was like, so in turn, I really like the reading, mainly the ideas behind it though.

Gestalt

Gestalt - In the terms of art, gestalt is the type of picture that has two pictures within it. A picture is created by both the positive and negative space.