Duchamp

[ dy-shahn ]

noun

1. Mar·cel [m, a, r, -, sel], 1887–1968, French painter, in U.S. after 1915 (brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon).

Duchamp

/ dyʃɑ̃ /

noun

1. DuchampMarcel18871968MUSFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor Marcel (marsɛl). 1887–1968, US painter and sculptor, born in France; noted as a leading exponent of Dada. His best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)

Example Sentences

Another room is devoted to his love affair with Marcel Duchamp.

From The Daily Beast

This is not the same thing that artists have been doing since Duchamp hung a urinal on a wall and called it art.

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What could come closer to the anti-retinal position of Duchamp than paintings so dark they can barely impinge on our retinas?

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In making the Black Paintings, Reinhardt may have been as indebted to Duchamp as to Malevich and Barnett Newman.

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The Daily Pic: In 1913, New Yorker Robert Winthrop Chandler was a successful radical, until he got swamped by Matisse and Duchamp.

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Duchamp, a slighter talent than either Léger or Gleizes, is the Whistler of the movement.

From Project Gutenberg

In his series of ready-mades, Marcel Duchamp anticipated much more than a style.

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M. Duchamp has recorded a fatal piscine epizoty amongst tenches (Tinca vulgaris), occurring in the ponds of La Bresse.

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