The most beautiful work of Marcel Duchamp is the use of your time.
Marcel Duchamp was born in Blainville-Crevon, a small town where his father, Eugène Duchamp, served as notary and mayor, his mother was Marie-Caroline-Lucie Nicolle. It was the third of six siblings. Marcel attended drawing classes in high school. His elder brother Gaston had reached a certain fame as a sign painter in Paris, where Henri Toulouse-Lautrec excelled also performed humorous illustrations for Parisian newspapers that satirized the religion, the military and many other bastions of conventional morality. Marcel, admired his brother and tried to imitate his style in his early drawings.
At fourteen, he painted his first oil paintings, impressionist influence in the landscape shown Blainville. Also perform several designs with different media: watercolor, gouache, monotype, pen with a single theme: his sister Suzanne, two years younger than also be devoted to painting, Dada painter emerging as an example of this painting is the Multiplication brisée et rétablie.
Duchanp of Brothers dedicated to painting, but not Raymond who chose sculpture. He was master of the modern movement of the early twentieth century. developed a style more and more geometric and abstract, his bust of Baudelaire, a simplification is absolute in its pure lines and ovals.
sculpture His famous horse, half animal and half machine, is an abstraction of great courage who had a big influence on later sculptors.
older now, and Ruan, his brother Marcel helped organize an exhibition called Les Duchamp: Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp who showed her various works.
When Marcel had eleven years his brother Gaston taught to play chess, both had great passion for the game. Jugabam Sunday, when he went to visit him in Puteaux, a suburb outside Paris, where the weather was good out to the garden of the house for lunch and spend the afternoon playing.
I ask the teacher if their fond memories of those times, his gaze rests on Miró on the wall and passes through the drops. I respect that some of these moments has captured in his paintings.
Marcel has been a friend of Apollinaire, Brancusi, Man Ray, Picabia, Breton, Satie, Cage, and many people more impossible to enumerate. And has had several love Mary Reynolds, Maria Martins, Teeny Matisse ... and some others
Marcel is a painter and an excellent chess player. Starts as an artist devoted to painting in Montmartre to leave home. Paris is where he paints: Portrait of the artist's father and the game of chess.
By this time he exhibited his work in the classroom of independent, also initiated a series of cartoons. His influence is regarded in the development of surrealism, Dadaism. Precursor of conceptual art, pop art, minimal, the performance of process art, virtually all the trends for which the art has run since the second half of the twentieth century.
Marcel breaks with the groups of painters and imposes a subversive force, a new aesthetic to new intellectual concerns. Destroy the idea of \u200b\u200ba work of art and sacred operator with his ready-mades. The challenge began with his Nude Descending a Staircase. A naked not drop a ladder!
The term: "readymades" found art, was invented by Marcel and refers to art produced through the use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they have no artistic function.
His first readymade, Bicycle Wheel entitled, the viewer creates a new thought for common objects.
Marcel says: I do not grant the artist the kind of social role in which it feels obliged to do something, which is due to public. All these considerations I am horrified ... I would have liked to work, but there was in me an enormous background of laziness. I prefer to live, breathe, rather than work
Marcelo has done it all and barely explained anything, leaves the viewer the ability to invent some of his work. Duchamp boasts the irony of a corrosive sense of humor with which mocks everything, including himself and is playing chess-depicting the ultimate intellectual activity, compared to a naked woman.
She Wrote: The readymade is a tradition. It is from that Duchamp himself installed in the Museum, where decides to put on stage, not only exhibits but enroll in history. The most brilliant artists know that it is not repeatable comfort, but something that, like everything that belongs to the tradition, the history of art, can become a reference point, a problem from which one can think and make art . If that is the paradigm of something, it is opening. the horizon of the artistic, rather than rupture.
In his life's passion for art combined with his interest in chess. In the world of chess Duchamp won several tournaments such as the Paris Championship 1932 and New York. Was also part of the French team in five Olympics: Paris 1924, The Hague 1928, Hamburg 1930, Prague 1931, Folkestone 1933. Among his teammates figured world champion Alexander Alekhine, exiled in France. came to possess the title of the French master.
mentioned in some letters to friends such events as: "I have made great progress ... and does not have the slightest chance of reaching the French championship, but within a year or two, I'll have the pleasure of against practically anyone can play. Obviously, it's part of my life that I enjoy more That we mentioned Jean Crotti, married to his sister Susan.
tells him a letter to Picabia, one of his best friends: "My goal is to become a professional chess player" Right now, the only thing capable of interesting would be a potion allow me to play chess divinely.
Write to Ettie Stettheimer "I'm starting small countries ... maybe one day I decided to become a champion of France "
During the Tournament Brussels Duchamp played surprisingly well, winning seven and a half points out of ten against experienced opponents and finished in third place. A brilliant start.
The Bulletin of the Fédération française des échecs, there is an article that discusses the merits of Duchamps, toughness and depth of his game, his imperturbable serenity, his witty style and impeccable manner that has to take the least advantage. considered to be a formidable opponent.
Has taken several years of work The Great mirror as well as his work on the Large Glass? asked Marcel.
Marcel smiles and confesses, speaking of painting bores me a bit.
Then I suggest you answer the questions or words that you mentioned, with the first thing that comes to mind is smiling again. Sure, I like humor and a bit of irony,
this reminds me of Brittany!.
The irony.
started right! The irony is a way to accept something fun.
Chess.
is also fun! When you play a game is like designing something or build a mechanism through which you win or lose. The competitive aspect is not important. The game itself is very, very plastic. That's probably what drew me to him so much. I absorbed the attention of chess. He played day and night.
Each time I liked less paint. "Theirs is a love of chess?
is a way to say, long play day and night and nothing in the world interested me more than finding the right move ... and increasingly less interested me in painting. All around me took the form of King or Queen. I was a fan of chess!
Marshall Chess Club.
played a lot of chess at the Marshall Chess Club, where she managed to win twice at Frank Marshall in the master simultaneous games played against twelve opponents.
Teeny Duchamp.
Haha haha, if she was my wife, Honeymoon full and tired by my love of chess, the pieces stick to the board, making it impossible to play, since I spent several hours in front of the board, which she greatly disliked.
Capablanca.
I've admired and studied, even playing against him in his simultaneous He performed at the Marshall Chess Club. Capablanca won twenty of twenty-four games, including the one that played against me.
Meta irony.
You mean my readymades? Well, well! The readymades float unrelated to any claim. They are manifestations of the spirit high, and home to the statement of any kind of principle. Act as the complaint to the myth of the masterpiece as are exercises in acute irony. They are subversive operations and are double or multiple sets of meaning. It is an object released from unequivocal condemnation of their use, may be two or more things at once. The readymade surrealist shared with the invitation to be interpreted.
Trebucher stumble
trap the question has become the art!. It was a ismpiracion and "ready made" corresponds to a chess board position, a coat hook that studded the floor of my apartment. I chose a wooden plank with several teams that had acquired to hang clothes but in my laziness had left on the ground, to time and I used to stumble often and I definitely key in the soil, Trébuchet-hanger-name, a play on words that means stumbling trébucher
is said that this work displays his irony built on what is, formally, also is a particular pawn structure in the game of chess.
Then it seemed like a great idea.
His paintings about chess.
The king and queen surrounded by swift nudes, the game of chess, a portrait of chess players.
later. Certainly the sale of these three pictures, gave me 600 dollars I was happy to make money!
has won several championships, right?
We go back to chess! actually Championships in Paris and one in New York, part of the French team in four Olympics: The Hague, Hamburg, Prague and Folkestone. Among my teammates was the world champion Alexander Aliojin, exiled in France. He was sick the day of the France-US meeting in Hamburg, so I had to defend the first board to Frank Marshall, one of the best players of his time, and achieve a draw
Is it a art solution?
I am someone that is not characterized precisely because of my desire to draw attention, not for my excessive labor supply, nor theoretical fatigue. On the contrary, never considered art as a solution to anything, and on top I stopped painting and I decided to look the good fortune to pass through the drops. I try to be happy
I wanted to use paint, art serve to establish a modus vivendi, a sort of way to understand life, that is probably trying to make my own life a work art, rather than spend my life doing art in tabular form in the form of sculptures.
I thought, I think now I had not thought as he did, that one could deal with very good life, that is, your breathing, how they act, how they react with individuals, one can treat it as a picture, if you want, like a living painting, a painting, even as a film box. I am my own ready-made live
Roche.
A good friend who said: "A good start is so important to Marcel as a bottle for a baby and returns to laughter.
"Duchamp's art leaves the game an endless game of chess"
The myth started by my friend Brittany, the phrase is his.
His love
You mean women?
Yes
I married, but I was able to weather the storm thanks to my luck. At one point, I realized that life had to carry too much weight, too many things to do, what they call a woman, children, a country house, a car. And happily I understood quite early. moral weight, the responsibility of marriage, I realized that I'm selfish bachelor.
woonder Beatrice.
Oh what memories that name causes me, writer, painter, actress, beautiful woman! I met her in New York and we became lovers.
His best works.
In the production of any painter or artist, there are only four or five things that really count in life. Everything else is just filling us every day. Usually these four or five things surprised at the time appear.
Goethe.
I quote: "I founded my cause at all," "The divine look to God, the human looks at the man. My cause is not divine or human, is neither true, nor Well, neither fair nor free, is mine, not general, but only as I am single. Nothing is above me. "Is it all a declaration of principles right?
Picabia and Man Ray
My inseparable friends. Man Ray, the son of Russian immigrants whose real name is Emmanuel Radnitski, cambo family but his name, adopting the Ray. A Picabia always liked women and fast cars ... - his laugh is loud-1916. He is of Cuban origin. I remember writing in the journal Tritan 391 Tzara, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau and me.
Picabia wrote "They are all accused, put yourself in the foot ... / What are you doing here, parked as oysters serious ... / Dada feels nothing is nothing, nothing, nothing. / Like a paradise, nothing. / As artists, nothing. / As their religion, nothing. "
a Man Ray did not like that never call him a photographer. Breton calls him a magician of light. Portrayed Ray Picabia, posed as if the famous painter Tamara de Lempicka, looking at the camera with a large horn at your hand and the hand holding the steering wheel.
Ray stood by your imagination. Soil solarization is an effect discovered by Ray and his lover, the beautiful Lee Miller, who later abandoned him, I tell you that there are versions that it was she who, by accident I find the process of solarization, rayograms , images taken without a camera by placing the procedure objects directly on light sensitive paper and exposed to light accidents are life!
His painting, Nude Descending a Staircase.
My naked down the stairs, it may be a great owner who fears falling he cried, bursting into laughter. A work of art should not fatally impose a solution to the look, but perhaps an open door to the imagination of everyone.
His work is not then a message
When something is done, is done with guts all being involved, heart and brain, and it flows spontaneously in the pleasure of creation and the enjoyment in love. Everyone creates all day without thinking, however, that broadcasts a message.
"Chess is like painting?
Find, causes, invent new sources.
Breton Freud
Breton wrote his manifesto The Revolution surréaliste Breton said that the source of his interest in automatism was due to Freud. Breton had studied medicine, worked in Charcot's clinic, where Freud's study of hysteria. What he did was start a monologue Breton, pronouncing quickly without criticism or trial Operator to reach the unconscious.
Silence.
Silence is the best production you can do: you do not sign it and everyone benefits from it.
Jules Laforgue and Raymond Roussel.
From his humor first attracted me cynical detachment from his characters and their games verbal. Second, your work based on puns, and puns transliterations. I drew the insanity of the unexpected and the discovery of a work that only part of the author's imagination, because for Roussel works should not contain, nothing but completely imaginary object combinations.
You painted a beard and mustache on the Mona Lisa, put a bicycle wheel on a stool, put an iron nails, took a porcelain urinal and sent him with a nickname to a prestigious salon art.
Marcel with a simulated straight face says,
Anarte I, if I am, and his eyes twinkle.
"Chess is sport?
is a violent sport, which diminishes its artistic connections. If there is to be defined with one word, is a struggle.
"theorists in art?
The work of art without an idea, most singular, ribald or witty it was, without an idea again, to support it would have no value, on the other hand art has a nice habit of spoiling all art theory. I do not believe art, I believe in artists. Against all opinions, not the artists but the spectators who make the pictures.
Clement Greenberg.
Go art critics! This critical position - endorsed by the School of New York's defense was a pure art and faith in the intrinsic value of the artwork. Clement believed in the superiority of an art doomed to the solution of problems of form, purged of any reference or relation to the contingency, with the world and also believed in the value of the originality of the work and the artist's style. Consequently I Duchamp, appeared before him as a threat fierce, located too close to the vulgarity. I was conspiring against the religion of art and laughed at the claims above the postwar artists who wanted to rehabilitate the romantic poetry sublime.
Is the object is presented and is meant to itself?
African wooden spoons were nothing at the time they were made. They were simple utilitarian objects. Then they became beautiful objects, works of art.
know from their various contributions What art has brought you to the game?
with an investigation of the late kings and pawns, reflected in a book written with Halberstan, only 1,000 copies were published. Extends the study of the opposition of the kings and the boxes with moves. I know that these positions are only given once in life!
dryer cylinders.
One of my first ready made, resembling a chess pawn.
Why has stopped painting?
What do you want?, I have no ideas
Do you read what is written about you?
course, but I've forgotten.
Labour.
I hope you have a day when you can live without having the obligation to work. I like to live to work. I do not consider the work I did have importance from a social standpoint in the future. So if you want, my art is to live, every second, every breath is a work not registered anywhere, that is neither visual nor cerebral. Is a sort of constant euphoria.
contradiction.
I have always been forced to contradiction, to prevent my own taste settle a balance is created fatal as in chess. We must always strive to see everything with fresh eyes, even if we contradict, because today's context is never quite the same as yesterday.
Have things.
try to reach does not own anything, it is necessary to achieve freedom, the freedom to live, to live intensely every minute with the spontaneity of a bird pecking a seed, the leaves of a film, come back and sing the joy of discovery. The bird sings, is an artist, the squirrel gathers provisions, is a nasty bourgeois capitalist. Without provisions, not having anything because possession is overloaded. Be the traveler without luggage.
live without worries.
Delete the most of all to be sustained in order to be free. Childhood and adolescence, periods in which this function is unique, forming a solid preparation for the moment the function of creating flourish. This, according to the individual, may be exercised from the making children more material to the most ethereal of the mathematician or chess player, they only build for themselves and without any concretization. This being so, why not try to get rid of all concerns pertaining to the maintenance function, ie to avoid flooding or intellectual (read anything) and slavery hoarders of what is called 'a living' becomes reducing free indispensable to a strict minimum and, secondly, to ensure the maintenance of regular and effective rents, sponsorship, or other for those who want access to the true role of creation, the artist.
Montmartre
Vivi there for several years, my father sent us to live on. Memories cafes, he always carried a notebook to scenes notes that life in the neighborhood of their loved everyday life.
The chess game
paint that picture in my brothers and their wives sat playing next.
was an innovative painting
Each of my works is different from the other. Paint after: Young sad on a train then;
Nude Descending a Staircase
Nude Descending a Staircase "caused an enormous controversy?
.
Nude Descending a Staircase combines elements of cubism and futurism movement of futurism to cubism attacked, well I display the picture on the independent living suggested that the title change thing that I did, got my picture and I took him . It was a real turning point in my life. I realized that, after that, never again to be interested too in the groups. They asked me to withdraw Cubist Nude Descending a Staircase Independents Hall because they thought people would think it was a mockery of Cubism. And I said: "They can go to hell." And I did not see them again. I realized that we had different objectives.
Cubism.
Since then fled the was decisive, leaving the paint.
chess Widows
Haha haha \u200b\u200bYeah the end is great!. I abandoned this hobby my wife Yvonne Chastel getting tired of chess and returned to Paris.
René Clair.
Participate in twenty-minute film is a representation of Relâche ballet. I appear in a scene playing chess with Man Ray until interrupted water jet heading
You are a wanderer of art, "where he has been playing chess?
He left Paris for weeks to participate in tournaments. Rivera played in the team next to Nice, and returned to participate in a tournament in Brussels the following year occupies the fourth place team was invited to represent France in the first Olympics of chess, where France was seventh. I was champion of the High Normandy to win a tournament in Rouen. Participated in several competitions with the French national team, captained by Alexander Alekhine, world champion.
You design the poster of the French Championship.
Marcel looks tired, and answers: Yes, I thought of a striking image cube base black roses and inscribed within the profile of the figure of the king. In this tournament, he defeated little Champion, Robert Crepeaux, achieves the sixth.
Award bright.
I got it in the Tournament of Hyeres.
Tartakover.
was a great privilege to play with it to achieve a draw. In the Paris International Turnoi played with the best players on the planet. Finish Last, but tie with Xavier Tartakower and made tables with George Koltanowski ..
Is your last tournament?
.
Folkestone.
Why
left the game?
Not at all, only the skills I wanted to be a chess champion. Today I am content to play. I am still a victim of chess. Has all the beauty of art and much more. Can not be marketed. Chess is purer than art in its social position. The chess pieces are the components of the alphabet which shapes thoughts and these thoughts, in addition to visual design of the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem ... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all yes that chess players are artists.
words.
words have absolutely no chance of saying anything. As we began to pour our thoughts into words and phrases all goes out the window.
Books.
The lucky discovery of a single book can change the destiny of a man.
You've reached the celebrity?
If someone were famous, I knew it would be impossible. Being famous is like being dead: I do not know that the dead are dead. I hear people when they say I'm famous, but that does not mean accepting the idea to the point of believing it. Besides, who can feel some respect for the celebrity? The celebrities are the mascots of the mass. The dough needs someone to worship, there is Einstein!
twentieth century
The twentieth century is one of the poorest of art history, poorer even than the eighteenth, where great art was not only frivolous. Twentieth century art is a simple hobby light, as if we lived in a happy time, despite all the wars that were part of the landscape.
Given
I was never a true dadaist. There was in Zurich when Tzara and the others began. But Picabia and I had done something similar. Nothing new, of course, Pop Art is just a rehash of Dada. As for the Abstract Expressionists, I liked things like my picture: The King and Queen surrounded by naked, fast. Characters who can not identify anything from the anatomical point of view of course: abstract expressionism is merely a rehash Kandinsky, Mondrian and Kupka perhaps.
Artists are beasts.
Everyone! Since Courbet, they are all beasts. Should intern them all to have the bloated ego. Courbet was the first to say: "Please accept my art or not accept it. I'm free. " That was in 1860. From there, each artist came up that needed to be more free than before: the pointillist freer than the Impressionists, the Cubists freer still, and the Futurists and the Dadaists even more, etc.. Freer, more open, freer: call it freedom. A drunks they put them in prison. Why should we allow the ego of the artists poison the atmosphere? Did not you feel the stench?
As appreciates their work.
rather live, breathe, that the work I do not think that the work that I can have some meaning social standpoint in the future. So if you want my art to live. Every second, every breath is held INE which fits anywhere, which is neither the visual brain. It is a sort of constant euphoria.
is autumn and the wind blows, you look through the window at the falling leaves occurs to me asking what kind of readymade, would a fall like this.
mental quickly says: Put a book on chess with a string of a tree branch for the wind to pass your page and learn.
For you chess is a masterpiece of imaginative Cartesianism and at first glance, does not even look Cartesian.
If
attracts me cope with the two attitudes, chess and art.
Grand viidrio .
I intended to make no eye a painting but a painting in which color tube were a means not an end in itself. The fact that literary call this kind of paint does not worry me. There is a difference between a painting that only addresses the retina and a painting that goes beyond the retinal print, a painting that uses color tube as a springboard to jump farther. This is what happens to the religious Renaissance. The tube colors were not interested. What they wanted was their idea of \u200b\u200bdivinity in this or that way. Without trying the same and for other purposes, I had the same idea: pure painting itself does not interest me or purpose. For me the purpose is different, is a combination or at least an expression that only the gray matter may occur.
"I was a pawn naked
will be the last question. I'm glad you know later! Babita Eve is a young model, a friend of the photographer Julian Wassenaar accept that she and I posed for a picture, it would appear playing a game of chess, with the detail that it would completely naked. The picture was held in Pasadena California Art Museum.
Certainly the model wrote his version with the humorous title: "I was a pawn naked for art, the true story of the day when Marcel Duchamp put the West Coast underground on the map of culture playing chess with the author, who at that time was a young undressed with a lot to learn. " By the way we played three games which certainly win
was an image that traveled around the world
At the time yes.
Free Will.
All these trifles, existence of god, atheism, determinism, free will, societies, death, etc., are the pieces of a chess game called language and are only fun if you do not worry to win or lose this chess game .
Frank Marshall vs Marcel Duchamp
http://deludoscachorum.blogspot.com/2010/05/marshall-vs-duchamp.html
Frank Marshall - Marcel Duchamp
http://www.worldchesslinks.net/szs09.html
White: Duchamp. Black: Wreford Brown. Paris, 1924.
1 Nf3 Nc6 e5 2 c4 Nf6 3 d3 Bc5 4 CBD2 5 0-0 6 h3 g3 d5 7 cxd5 Nxd5 8 Bg2 Qd7 10 Be6 9 0-0 Rh2 Cce7 11 b3 Ng6 12 Bb2 f5 13 Qc2 Bd6 14 Ng5 Nb4 15 Qc1 c6 16 Cxe6 dxe6 17 Nf3 f4 18 Ng5 Qe7 19 Qc4 + Nd5 20 Bxd5 + cxd5 21 Qxd5 + Kh8 22 Ne4 Rad8 23 cxd6 Txd6 24 Qc5 b6 25 Qc3 DG5 26 Aa3 fxg3 + 27 fxg3 Txf1 Txf1 28 f6 29 Qc8 + Nf8, and Brown gave up without waiting for the obvious answer
Idea and collection
Dr Gabriel CapóVidal.
