ALIAS MAN RAY : THE ART OF REINVENTION Nov 17, 2009
That group now reads like a modernist pantheon - Andr Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Marcel Proust and Gertrude Stein, among others ... Like his fellow Dadaist and close friend Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray took delight in playing games and confounding expectations. (AbsoluteArts.com)
When Tinguely met Rauschenberg Oct 23, 2009
His reputation was already established among the city's art scene - which included Rauschenberg, his contemporary Jasper Johns, and Dada master Marcel Duchamp through his Mta-Matic kinetic drawing machines. A few months later Tinguely staged his Homage to New York in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Hirst much more than a pricey dead shark Oct 21, 2009
marcel duchamp observed years ago something along the lines of " artistic fame and ... weehuddy, new zealand Story Tools The Goanna Goanna Tracks Most commented 99 comments 88 comments 84 comments 81 comments 54 comments 00004000 50 comments 219 comments 129 comments 58 comments 52 comments 22 comments 17 comments Editor's picks The Vulture Blog Things are looking up for the equilibrium-challenged egg, who is finally getting it together. Rocco Fazzari blogs on how the massive container ship... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Jasper Johns art on display at National Gallery Oct 11, 2009
Some of the works show motifs and symbols Johns repeats over time, such as silhouettes of his artistic predecessors Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso, paying homage to their work. The piece, "Red, Yellow, Blue," includes a fingerprint mark left by the artist as he played with color. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Irving Penn, RIP Oct 9, 2009
Some of the greatest writers, artists, and musicians of the last half-century posed for Penn; among those in the Morgan show are W.H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Marcel Duchamp, Carson McCullers, Igor Stravinsky, and Tennessee Williams. Penn is the natural heir to and , both of whom photographed cultural figures central to the early half of the 20th century for Vanity Fairand other lavish publications of the day. (Slate)
* Truth to power Aug 16, 2009
He also soaked up Western art history, taking Marcel Duchamp as a starting point then tracing a lineage that ran from Dada to Pop Art and Conceptual Art. His personal ideas of bringing together found objects, or readymades, and Chinese antiques, however, had not yet come into its own. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
'Anyone could paint that' and 7 other myths about art Aug 7, 2009
French artist Marcel Duchamp didn't make every shovel art, just the one he labeled. In other words, while context and intentionality can earn a work the title of "art," an object that randomly evokes an artistic reference does not. (Christian Science Monitor)
Exhibit is a fun way to take in the trash Jul 9, 2009
The idea came into vogue in the early 20th century, when such artists as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque started recycling newspapers and the like in collages and Marcel Duchamp dubbed a urinal Fountain and called it readymade art. It has never really gone out of style, and in recent years heightened focus on the environment has given it a particular cachet. (Boston Globe)
Mixing art and style Jul 9, 2009
My most favourite piece of art is called L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp (created in 1919). It is a painting of Mona Lisa with a moustache. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Duchamp exhibit Jun 24, 2009
Born in Blainville, France, near Rouen, Marcel Duchamp (18871968) first traveled to the United States in 1915 ... For more on Duchamp, purchase Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture edited by Anne Collins Goodyear and James W. McManus. (Harper's Magazine)
* Plus ça change ... Apr 29, 2009
(Ottinger is an expert on modern art and has written books and essays about seminal figures such as Jean Helion, Rene Magritte, Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, to name just a few. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Monet's 'Water Lilies' coming to the High Apr 15, 2009
In addition to Picasso and Warhol, the exhibit will include Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Fernand L;ger, Henri Matisse, Joan Mir;, Piet Mondrian and Jackson Pollock. The two museums have worked together before. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Art.view: Bull for a night Mar 1, 2009
Yet this eye-opening round of bidding was nothing compared to the stunned silence brought on by lot 37, La Belle Haleine, a ready-made perfume bottle by Marcel Duchamp. Four bidders took the price up to 6m, then the bidding settled into an aggressive back-and-forth between two New York consultants, Franck Giraud, speaking on his mobile phone, and Andrew Ruth, who sat next to and was apparently bidding for a member of the Pritzker family, who own the Hyatt chain of hotels. (The Economist)
* Records tumble as Yves Saint Laurent art collection sold Feb 25, 2009
Works by other artists, including Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian, Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi and French innovator Marcel Duchamp, earned record sums, well above earlier estimates. CHINA CLAIM. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
YSL art sale breaks new records Feb 25, 2009
Works by the Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian, Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi and French innovator Marcel Duchamp, also earned record sums, well above estimates. By contrast, a much anticipated Pablo Picasso work, the highest in the collection - Musical Instruments on a Table - flopped. (Ninemsn)
Saint Laurent Art Sets Records Feb 25, 2009
Although he is sanguine about the market, the dealer, based in Monte Carlo, Monaco, was staggered by Monday's sale, which also netted records for (two of the Dutchman's paintings sold for eight-digit figures), Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Klee and James Ensor. "It was the most amazing auction I've ever seen," Nahmad said on the main floor just after the last lot sold. (Time.com)
Yves Saint Laurent sale proves art is in fashion Feb 24, 2009
Works by Piet Mondrian, a big influence on Saint Laurent, Constantin Brancusi, the Romanian sculptor and Marcel Duchamp, the experimental artist, earned record sums well above earlier estimates. The 1917 work Madame L. R. by Brancusi went for 29 million, proving to many experts that collectors and investors were ready to put big money into art as a refuge in hard times. (Times Online)
Yves Saint Laurent art sells for €206 million Feb 24, 2009
A fifth record was improbably set earlier for a work by Marcel Duchamp, the master of the Dada movement propounding the absurd as an art form, when two banal toilet water flasks with added inscriptions fetched 8. 91 million. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Saint Laurent auction breaks world records Feb 24, 2009
A 1921 piece of found art a bottle of breath freshener created by the Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp sold for 8. 9-million euros, almost six times its estimated price. (Globe and Mail)
Artist's polarizing work Feb 21, 2009
When Marcel Duchamp signed his name on a bottle rack and called it art, people were outraged. Sure, Duchamp didn't break the law, but personally, I'd be thrilled if Fairey put one of his creations on my apartment building. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Giant Mona Lisa goes on display Feb 12, 2009
Dadaist painter Marcel Duchamp gave her a moustache and a goatee, while Andy Warhol created pop art serigraph prints of her. It is the first time a contemporary work inspired by the Mona Lisa has gone on display so close to the original. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
