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Gaëlle Choisne Wins Marcel Duchamp Prize, France’s Top Art Award

Gaëlle Choisne Wins Marcel Duchamp Prize, France’s Top Art Award

Gaëlle Choisne is this year’s winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp, the top art award in France. The 39-year-old French-Haitian artist will receive a €35,000 grant ($38,000 USD) and a two-year residency in at the porcelain factory Sèvres – Manufacture and Musée Nationaux. “I’m thrilled to have a large space within the exhibition, because that creates something fairly immersive, which goes well with my art,” the artist told the Center Pompidou, which announced the news of the prize on its website on October 14. Related Articles The other finalists were Abdelkader Benchamma, Noémie Goudal, and the duo Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain. Choisne and the other finalists are all showing their work in Paris at the Centre Pompidou. Her Choisne’s installation at the institution was described by Centre Pompidou Magazine editor-in-chief Séverine Pierron as a “temporal and sensorial journey in a recomposed space.” “On the floor: dyed, black concretions made of cork, like a volcanic beach; on the walls: large painted panels adorned with a collection of various found items; in the centre: hive-like structures, …

9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp

9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp

  Marcel Duchamp left a lasting mark on art history and many modern and contemporary artists. Duchamp was not concerned with creating a lot of artworks. Instead, he would spend several years studying and working on one piece. He also never refused to help other artists. Duchamp was interested in other people’s art, he helped artists gain recognition and participated in various group exhibitions. Here is a list of 9 artists who were inspired by the works of Marcel Duchamp.   1. John Covert Brass Band by John Covert, 1919. Source: Artvee   John Covert was born in Pittsburgh, United States. He was a founding member of the Society of Independent Artists and a Dadaist painter.   Covert probably met Marcel Duchamp in the Arensberg circle in New York. Covert, who was also Walter Arensberg’s cousin, was among the frequent attendees of their meetings, alongside Joseph Stella, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray, and numerous poets and writers. He quickly befriended Duchamp and became one of the first artists who were inspired by his works.   Although …

8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About

8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About

  The French artist Marcel Duchamp is widely known for his readymades. Even those who don’t know who Duchamp is probably know about his work called The Fountain. However, his artistic journey began much earlier. In the beginning, he focused on paintings. Duchamp switched from one style to another in pursuit of something that would allow his ideas to materialize. Therefore, to understand how he became the genius we consider him today, we must turn to his first significant paintings that helped him pave the way for future grand artworks.   1. Sonata Sonata by Marcel Duchamp , 1911. Source: Philadelphia Museum of Art   Sonata marked a turning point in Marcel Duchamp’s artistic journey. It was the first painting that indicated his shift to a more radical artistic perspective. He started working on it in January of 1911 in Rouen. The painting depicts his three sisters—Yvonne is seen playing the piano, Magdalene playing the violin, and Suzanne sitting in front of them, listening. There’s a fourth figure in the background which shows their mother. …

How Marcel Duchamp Signed a Urinal in 1917 & Redefined Art

How Marcel Duchamp Signed a Urinal in 1917 & Redefined Art

Mar­cel Duchamp did­n’t sign his name on a uri­nal for lack of abil­i­ty to cre­ate “real” art. In fact, as explained by gal­lerist-Youtu­ber James Payne in the new Great Art Explained video above, Ducham­p’s grand­fa­ther was an artist, as were three of his sib­lings; he him­self attained impres­sive tech­ni­cal pro­fi­cien­cy in paint­ing by his teen years. In 1912, when he was in his mid-twen­ties, he could tran­scend con­ven­tion thor­ough­ly enough to bewil­der and even enrage the pub­lic by paint­ing Nude Descend­ing a Stair­case, which also drew crit­i­cisms from his fel­low Cubists for being “too Futur­ist.” From then on, his inde­pen­dent (and not entire­ly un-mis­chie­vous) streak became his entire way of life and art. That same year, Duchamp, Con­stan­tin Brân­cuși, and Fer­di­nand Léger went to the Paris Avi­a­tion Salon. Behold­ing a pro­peller, Duchamp declared paint­ing “washed up”; what artist could out­do the appar­ent per­fec­tion of the form before him? Get­ting a job as a librar­i­an, he indulged in a stretch of read­ing about math­e­mat­ics and physics. This got him think­ing of the pow­er of chance, one …