It is only replicas that are now in the most important institutions in the world. The original has been lost-with the prevailing view that Stieglitz threw it out after he photographed it. As for the original “Fountain”, proof of its existence remains in a photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. When it was denied by the Society, both Duchamp and Arensberg resigned from the board in protest, as all work was to be accepted so long as the artist paid the fee (a fee that was to be returned to R. “Fountain” quickly reached dizzying heights of controversy in the art world. For Duchamp, submitting it to the Society under the pseudonym (a society he co-founded, it’s worth noting), wasn’t to debate whether “Fountain” had any merit as art but whether the Society was willing to allow any artist the right to make this interpretation. Mutt (or perhaps his friend and artist Baroness Elsa did). Story has it (one of the many, it seems) that one afternoon Duchamp, together with friends including Walter Arensberg, went to a J.L Mott Iron Works in NYC and bought a urinal Duchamp took it home, flipped it over, and signed it R. Artists find meaning in ordinary, everyday objects: objects that can be elevated to the realm of fine art comparable to great paintings and masterpieces of the past as they attain new meaning that is beyond their form.
#MUTT MEANING SERIES#
It was around this time that Duchamp began a series of Ready-mades, or Objet Trouve, whose functions evolved beyond their original purposes, finding a new function that is recognized by, even created by, an “artist”.
Upon arriving in NYC he would reunite with Picabia, another great artist of the modernist era, whose show at MoMa was a profound, some say revolutionary, success.ĭuchamp’s artistic circle at the time included Picabia and Man Ray, and he garnered the patronage of the Arensberg’s of Philadelphia. Disillusioned with the Paris scene, Duchamp left for NYC in 1915. One year later, Duchamp was asked to withdraw “Nude Descending a Staircase” from the Salon in Paris (today it is considered one of the greatest works of art).
In 1911 he became friends with the artist Francis Picabia. Marcel Duchamp was born in Normandy in 1887.
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