Duchamp

[ dy-shahn ]

/ düˈʃɑ̃ /

noun

Mar·cel

[mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/, 1887–1968, French painter, in U.S. after 1915 (brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon).

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Examples from the Web for duchamp

This is not the same thing that artists have been doing since Duchamp hung a urinal on a wall and called it art.
Art on the Tracks|Malcolm Jones|February 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What could come closer to the anti-retinal position of Duchamp than paintings so dark they can barely impinge on our retinas?
Ad Reinhardt's Black (-on-Black) Humor|Blake Gopnik|December 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The Daily Pic: In 1913, New Yorker Robert Winthrop Chandler was a successful radical, until he got swamped by Matisse and Duchamp.
Painting, Red in Tooth and Claw|Blake Gopnik|November 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It seems he was offered a spot in the great Armory Show, but turned it down – and then went on to buy a Duchamp that he saw in it.
The American Picasso?|Blake Gopnik|July 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The Daily Pic: Everything the pop master made pointed back to Duchamp's urinal.
Warhol's Self-Portrait as a Toilet|Blake Gopnik|September 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Duchamp, a slighter talent than either Léger or Gleizes, is the Whistler of the movement.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright

British Dictionary definitions for duchamp

Duchamp

/ (French dyʃɑ̃) /

noun

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)

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