Monday, October 4, 2010

For 10/5

From the Dadaist movement, we have seen the definition of art being challenged. The lines between art and non-art was becoming dim; art was becoming not only a sensory pleasure, but also an intellectual on. Marchel Duchamp was one of the early artists who operated like this, as illustrated by his interview, "It was a small snow-covered landscape made by who knows, that I bought from a shopkeeper, to which I simply added two dots--a red and a green--which indicate the pharmaceutical jars that one sees. says in his interview, " by adding these two small dots, he took a piece of formal art and turned it in to an intellectual piece of art. The labor and task in the pice he found was being mocked by Duchamp when he did this; this kind of irony seems to be very common in readymade art...the pinnacle of which is the Mona Lisa with the moustache (very ironic).

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