VPSA63H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Marcel Duchamp, Cubism
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Lecture 5 notes (+ consultation with professor kwan) Today in class: completed group work exercise #2 and handed in essay outline on blackboard before 9:00 am, oct. 6. ~ was exposed to cubism before he turned to ready made art. ~ cubist paintings were different than regular cubist paintings in the sense that his paintings incorporated a sense of humour and movement. ~ nude woman walking down staircase looked like an automaton: a robot that was moving down the staircase. The textbook author states that duchamp has a sense of humour in his paintings: the title. ~ cubist painters rejected duchamp"s works because cubism was a serious painting style that was interested in perception and visual analysis, and with serious subject matter. ~ he was influenced by his cubist painter brothers, machinery and the idea of the lack of an artist"s signature in products of mass creation (mass production), and the art community around him.
