Marcel Duchamp
HenriRobertMarcel Duchamp 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 twentiethcentury and twenty firstcentury art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists as retinal art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to put art back in the service of the mind.
Marcel Duchamp was born at BlainvilleCrevon in Normandy, France, and grew up in a family that enjoyed cultural activities. The art of painter and engraver mile Frdric Nicolle160 , his maternal grandfather, filled the house, and the family liked to play chess, read books, paint, and make music together.
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