Artwork 1 - Activity 1
1. What do you see?
I see an abstract designed artwork, done using pencil and pastels.
2. Do you consider the figure to be human or animal? Explain
The figure has attributes that are both human and animal,
3. Describe any similarities and differences between the styles of the head, neck, torso, and legs of the figure.
The head has animal form while having human style lips, the arm has the form of a fish. The ears have an organic leaf style. The legs and torso have a human look, while the feet are like tennis rackets & there are what look like tennis balls there to. The eyes are on ribbon like sections coming from the sides of the head.
4. How do you think this work was made?
I think this has been made by using the Exquisite Corpse style of one person drawing each section and folding it over for the next person to do the next section.
5.Research:
• How was this artwork made?
This artwork as I had expected was made using the Exquisite Corpse style.
• Which Art Movement belongs this artwork to?
The artwork belongs to the Surrealist movement.
• In what context was this artwork created? (Circumstances)
This artwork was created in 1927, Exquisite Corpse was a perfect parlour game for the surrealist's of the time. Surrealism developed out of Cubism and the Dada ( Dada movement was set up to rebel against WW1) activities during World War I, Andre Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement. Salvador Dali was a leading figure of the movement. Surrealism as a political force developed unevenly around the world: in some places more emphasis was on artistic practices, in other places on political practices, and in other places still, Surrealist praxis looked to supersede both the arts and politics.
Starting in Zurich in 1916 the Dada movement was against any form of authority and rebelled against the factions that had started WW1. They were against Nationalism and Rationalism, Dada was taking a mockery of the materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, this was a powerful influence on many avant-garde artists, poets & filmmakers of the day in major cities around the world. They took their influences from Futurist and Expressionist works. Dada art varies so widely that it has not got one style to explain it. Dada was one of those movements that tried to confuse everyone, and this is just what they wanted.
The movement is believed to have dissipated with the arrival of Surrealist in France.
• What do you think of this technique of creating art?
This technique of creating art I think is very interesting in that everyone is different and the results show that.
I see an abstract designed artwork, done using pencil and pastels.
2. Do you consider the figure to be human or animal? Explain
The figure has attributes that are both human and animal,
3. Describe any similarities and differences between the styles of the head, neck, torso, and legs of the figure.
The head has animal form while having human style lips, the arm has the form of a fish. The ears have an organic leaf style. The legs and torso have a human look, while the feet are like tennis rackets & there are what look like tennis balls there to. The eyes are on ribbon like sections coming from the sides of the head.
4. How do you think this work was made?
I think this has been made by using the Exquisite Corpse style of one person drawing each section and folding it over for the next person to do the next section.
5.Research:
• How was this artwork made?
This artwork as I had expected was made using the Exquisite Corpse style.
• Which Art Movement belongs this artwork to?
The artwork belongs to the Surrealist movement.
• In what context was this artwork created? (Circumstances)
This artwork was created in 1927, Exquisite Corpse was a perfect parlour game for the surrealist's of the time. Surrealism developed out of Cubism and the Dada ( Dada movement was set up to rebel against WW1) activities during World War I, Andre Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement. Salvador Dali was a leading figure of the movement. Surrealism as a political force developed unevenly around the world: in some places more emphasis was on artistic practices, in other places on political practices, and in other places still, Surrealist praxis looked to supersede both the arts and politics.
Starting in Zurich in 1916 the Dada movement was against any form of authority and rebelled against the factions that had started WW1. They were against Nationalism and Rationalism, Dada was taking a mockery of the materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, this was a powerful influence on many avant-garde artists, poets & filmmakers of the day in major cities around the world. They took their influences from Futurist and Expressionist works. Dada art varies so widely that it has not got one style to explain it. Dada was one of those movements that tried to confuse everyone, and this is just what they wanted.
The movement is believed to have dissipated with the arrival of Surrealist in France.
• What do you think of this technique of creating art?
This technique of creating art I think is very interesting in that everyone is different and the results show that.
Practical Activity 1
CHANCE WORDS (Random words technique)
TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM
Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
My Dadaist poem
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TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM
Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
My Dadaist poem
Reorganisation libraries A campaigner Queensferry
libraries Councillors deeside with voted incandescent
to press Centre council he was provision move plans
members Flintshire Leisure Flintshire Flintshire to
shut approve Unpopular with an after withdrawn to
a councillors to work Cabinet ahead senior.
Artwork 2 - Activity 2
Take a couple of minutes to look at the image and describe what you see. Include composition, color, material, and images in your description.
I have looked at this artwork and I see an abstract collage of all differing materials in random shapes, good use of colour with the different shades of green & beige.
The composition of this artwork is random, some might say busy. There is good contrast of light and dark colour. there is rhythm in this work with the use of similar shape and use of repeated colours. I think there is balance in this work there is an attraction that draws you into the centre of the artwork.
How do you imagine this picture was made?
this was made as a collage with different materials stuck together in a random form in an abstract way.
In this image there is a use of a lot of green's & beige colour with the odd bit of red. The image is a collage of cut out Pieces of Fabrics, Paper, Newsprint, Card, Postcards, Business card, Maps, Leafs.
I have looked at this artwork and I see an abstract collage of all differing materials in random shapes, good use of colour with the different shades of green & beige.
The composition of this artwork is random, some might say busy. There is good contrast of light and dark colour. there is rhythm in this work with the use of similar shape and use of repeated colours. I think there is balance in this work there is an attraction that draws you into the centre of the artwork.
How do you imagine this picture was made?
this was made as a collage with different materials stuck together in a random form in an abstract way.
In this image there is a use of a lot of green's & beige colour with the odd bit of red. The image is a collage of cut out Pieces of Fabrics, Paper, Newsprint, Card, Postcards, Business card, Maps, Leafs.
Kurt Schwitters
Merz Picture 32A The Cherry Picture
This was as i suspected a collage of lots of different materials that were attached to the painted board by using glue and nails in a carefully composed layout (I thought it was random). There are many layers of light and dark paint on the board of this work, there are lots of different materials that Schwitters found on the streets of his home town in Germany there is also Three-dimensional objects, including a broken pipe, protrude from the surface.
This artwork is from the Merz series invented by Schwitters using the second syllable from the German word "Kommerz" (commerce) to differentiate from the Dada movement of the time.
This artwork was created in 1921, not long after the end of WW1. Schwitters was an artist that at the end of WW1 adopted Collage as his preferred medium for art. Quote from him at the time :- “Everything had broken down in any case and new things had to be made out of the fragments.” With his Merz project he aimed “to create connections, preferably between everything in this world.”
This technique I think is very interesting, find everyday, obscure objects and creating a piece of art appeals to me a great deal. Making the new from the old.
Merz Picture 32A The Cherry Picture
This was as i suspected a collage of lots of different materials that were attached to the painted board by using glue and nails in a carefully composed layout (I thought it was random). There are many layers of light and dark paint on the board of this work, there are lots of different materials that Schwitters found on the streets of his home town in Germany there is also Three-dimensional objects, including a broken pipe, protrude from the surface.
This artwork is from the Merz series invented by Schwitters using the second syllable from the German word "Kommerz" (commerce) to differentiate from the Dada movement of the time.
This artwork was created in 1921, not long after the end of WW1. Schwitters was an artist that at the end of WW1 adopted Collage as his preferred medium for art. Quote from him at the time :- “Everything had broken down in any case and new things had to be made out of the fragments.” With his Merz project he aimed “to create connections, preferably between everything in this world.”
This technique I think is very interesting, find everyday, obscure objects and creating a piece of art appeals to me a great deal. Making the new from the old.
Artwork 3 - Activity 3
Take a couple of minutes to look at the image and describe what you see. Include composition, color, material, and images in your description.
this artwork is an abstract painting using three colours Grey (background), Blue & white. The images painted are squares of differing size not all the exact same shape in a random pattern. There is balance in this artwork with the shapes yet unbalance with the colour of the shapes.
How do you think this artwork was made?
I think that this artwork is a painting, grey background with blue & white square shapes painted in a random pattern in different sizes.
this artwork is an abstract painting using three colours Grey (background), Blue & white. The images painted are squares of differing size not all the exact same shape in a random pattern. There is balance in this artwork with the shapes yet unbalance with the colour of the shapes.
How do you think this artwork was made?
I think that this artwork is a painting, grey background with blue & white square shapes painted in a random pattern in different sizes.
Jean Arp - Collage with squares
Arranged according to the laws of chance
This artwork is also a Collage (I thought it was a painting), it was created by torn up pieces of coloured paper pasted onto a colour paper background.
This artwork belongs in the Dada movement, Jean Arp was a member of this movement in Zurich during WW1.
The artwork was made in 1916/17 so was at the height of WW1 and artists in the Dada movement created works of art many for propaganda to oppose the war regime. Quote from the time:- "Arp made "chance collages" such as this one: by tearing paper into pieces, dropping them onto a larger sheet, and pasting each scrap wherever it happened to fall. The relatively ordered appearance of Arp's collages suggests, however, that the artist did not fully relinquish artistic control. Skeptical of reason in the wake of World War I,"
I think that this "Chance Collage" style is very good, although Arp must have arranged these torn squares after dropping them it is still a very good technique.
Arranged according to the laws of chance
This artwork is also a Collage (I thought it was a painting), it was created by torn up pieces of coloured paper pasted onto a colour paper background.
This artwork belongs in the Dada movement, Jean Arp was a member of this movement in Zurich during WW1.
The artwork was made in 1916/17 so was at the height of WW1 and artists in the Dada movement created works of art many for propaganda to oppose the war regime. Quote from the time:- "Arp made "chance collages" such as this one: by tearing paper into pieces, dropping them onto a larger sheet, and pasting each scrap wherever it happened to fall. The relatively ordered appearance of Arp's collages suggests, however, that the artist did not fully relinquish artistic control. Skeptical of reason in the wake of World War I,"
I think that this "Chance Collage" style is very good, although Arp must have arranged these torn squares after dropping them it is still a very good technique.
Artwork 2 Artwork 3
Compare Artwork 2 and Artwork 3.
How are they similar and how are they different?
The main differences in Artwork 2 & 3 that I can see are that artwork 2 is an abstract collage using different materials in a random piece of work, while artwork 3 is also a collage using only two colours of torn up paper on a coloured paper background in a random style. Artwork 2 looks very busy/cluttered while artwork 3 has lots of whitespace. The artworks are similar in that they are both abstract works of art, both using shape as their main theme, and both having three main colours (all be it artwork 2 has different shades of said colours). Artwork 2 shows an unbalance in the shapes and placing of the shapes while artwork 3 shows balance with the shapes yet an unbalance in colour of the shapes. These artworks are from a period of only 4/5 years apart and created in a time of oppression of the war & just after. Artwork 3 is from the Dada movement while artwork 2 is from the Merz series to set it away from Dadaism.
Compare Artwork 2 and Artwork 3.
How are they similar and how are they different?
The main differences in Artwork 2 & 3 that I can see are that artwork 2 is an abstract collage using different materials in a random piece of work, while artwork 3 is also a collage using only two colours of torn up paper on a coloured paper background in a random style. Artwork 2 looks very busy/cluttered while artwork 3 has lots of whitespace. The artworks are similar in that they are both abstract works of art, both using shape as their main theme, and both having three main colours (all be it artwork 2 has different shades of said colours). Artwork 2 shows an unbalance in the shapes and placing of the shapes while artwork 3 shows balance with the shapes yet an unbalance in colour of the shapes. These artworks are from a period of only 4/5 years apart and created in a time of oppression of the war & just after. Artwork 3 is from the Dada movement while artwork 2 is from the Merz series to set it away from Dadaism.
Practical Activity 2
A collage like Artwork 2 can be viewed as a journal of objects encountered by the artist. Collect five objects, images, or fragments that you find over the course of a day or weekend, photograph and/or scan the objects and make a collage. Write a journal to accompany the visual one of found objects, explaining the objects’ significance and making connections between them. What objects did you collect? What objects did you leave behind?
My collage is going to have a theme of Waste Food, Water & Household waste. It will be on a canvas with scanned images glued on to it as a background. I have collected old Mc Donalds packaging an old water bottle and will be using some sticky back plastic with a water pattern on it as well. I also found discarded thrown away food that I will not use as it will rot.
Below is the start of my collage using images, photos & scanned images. This is going to be my background image of the collage with other objects giving a 3D effect to the work.
My collage is going to have a theme of Waste Food, Water & Household waste. It will be on a canvas with scanned images glued on to it as a background. I have collected old Mc Donalds packaging an old water bottle and will be using some sticky back plastic with a water pattern on it as well. I also found discarded thrown away food that I will not use as it will rot.
Below is the start of my collage using images, photos & scanned images. This is going to be my background image of the collage with other objects giving a 3D effect to the work.
Practical Activity 3
Bring 2 different things, images, or objects together to make a new one
Bring 2 different things, images, or objects together to make a new one
I took the black & white image of Elvis and the colour image of a yard brush, I opened them in photoshop and deleated the background with the magic eraser tool from the selection tools box. I then removed the microphone from the elvis image and replaced it with the yard brush.
I added a colour background of an American Dinner for effect
EasyChair Rider
Self loading Toothbrush
Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory
1. Name elements in The Persistence of Memory that remind you of real views in nature. Name unusual or unfamiliar elements that may have come from Dalí’s imagination. Are some of the elements hard to categorize as being strictly from nature or strictly from the imagination?
The elements that remind me of real views in nature are.
The elements that remind me of real views in nature are.
- The blue sky
- The mountains/cliff edge ... image reflection in sea
- The sea
- The dead tree
- The rocks on the beach
- The ants on the back of the pocket watch
- Sunlight & Shade
- The table top
- The distorted/melting pocket watches
- The fetus-like image looks like a sea shell
- The fetus-like image looks like a sea shell
How did Salvador Dali develop creative thinking techniques
Salvador Dalí is the father of surrealistic art, Surrealism is the art of writing or painting unreal or unpredictable works of art using the images or words from an imaginary world. Dali's creative thinking technique, now there is a question to conjure with. A lot of his works are everyday images seen through dreams, in different guises melting clocks, crutches holding up distorted figures and women with heads of bunches of flowers. We all see things differently in our subconscious dream state, this is where a lot of Dali's ideas came from. Awakening from dark to light there is this process in Dali's works, they show a lot of light & shade. Dali was intrigued with the images which occur at the boundary between sleeping and waking. He would capture an image whilst waking up and paint or draw that image whilst still in a subconscious state.
Quote from internet:- www.creativepost.com Salvador Dali’s Creative Thinking Technique
“His favourite technique is that he would put a tin plate on the floor and then sit by a chair beside it, holding a spoon over the plate. He would then totally relax his body; sometimes he would begin to fall asleep. The moment that he began to doze the spoon would slip from his fingers and clang on the plate, immediately waking him to capture the surreal images. The extraordinary images seem to appear from nowhere, but there is a logic. The unconscious is a living, moving stream of energy from which thoughts gradually rise to the conscious level and take on a definite form. Your unconscious is like a hydrant in the yard while your consciousness is like a faucet upstairs in the house. Once you know how to turn on the hydrant, a constant supply of images can flow freely from the faucet. These forms give rise to new thoughts as you interpret the strange conjunctions and chance combinations”.
Quote from internet:- www.creativepost.com Salvador Dali’s Creative Thinking Technique
“His favourite technique is that he would put a tin plate on the floor and then sit by a chair beside it, holding a spoon over the plate. He would then totally relax his body; sometimes he would begin to fall asleep. The moment that he began to doze the spoon would slip from his fingers and clang on the plate, immediately waking him to capture the surreal images. The extraordinary images seem to appear from nowhere, but there is a logic. The unconscious is a living, moving stream of energy from which thoughts gradually rise to the conscious level and take on a definite form. Your unconscious is like a hydrant in the yard while your consciousness is like a faucet upstairs in the house. Once you know how to turn on the hydrant, a constant supply of images can flow freely from the faucet. These forms give rise to new thoughts as you interpret the strange conjunctions and chance combinations”.
The Career of Marcel Duchamp
1887-1968
1887-1968
In 1912 Duchamp produced two of his most iconic works, Nude Descending a Staircase No2
The Bride.
The waterfall 2
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The difference between Duchamp's works over the years is plain to see, when he first started out in 1913 with Nude Decending stairs no2 he was doing abstract works in oil on canvas, at the same time he produced
The Bride, which he created on two glass panels using Oil, Varnish, Lead wire, Lead foil and dust in what can be described as a mechanical style. In 1914 Duchamp became involved with the DADA movement in New York till 1920. Then when most of the art world thought he had retired from art Duchamp was producing The Waterfall 2 from 1946-66 this was created on a wooden door with mixed media using nails, bricks, brass, sheet metal, steel clips and a female form made from parchment.
The differences in each artwork are that they have been created in different medium's one is an oil on canvas one is a collage on glass and the last one is created on an old wooden door with lots of materials to make the collage. The one thing that they all have in common is that there is a female form in each, all be it in differing styles. The last artwork The Waterfall 2 was started just before WW2 ended it was dark times and there was the depression after the war I think this is shown in the artwork. I think that it is dark and sinister with what looks like a dead female body in the undergrowth. This artwork shocked the audience of the time and was said to be pornographic.
The Bride, which he created on two glass panels using Oil, Varnish, Lead wire, Lead foil and dust in what can be described as a mechanical style. In 1914 Duchamp became involved with the DADA movement in New York till 1920. Then when most of the art world thought he had retired from art Duchamp was producing The Waterfall 2 from 1946-66 this was created on a wooden door with mixed media using nails, bricks, brass, sheet metal, steel clips and a female form made from parchment.
The differences in each artwork are that they have been created in different medium's one is an oil on canvas one is a collage on glass and the last one is created on an old wooden door with lots of materials to make the collage. The one thing that they all have in common is that there is a female form in each, all be it in differing styles. The last artwork The Waterfall 2 was started just before WW2 ended it was dark times and there was the depression after the war I think this is shown in the artwork. I think that it is dark and sinister with what looks like a dead female body in the undergrowth. This artwork shocked the audience of the time and was said to be pornographic.
The Career of Marcel Duchamp
Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp was born in France on 28th July 1887, Marcel went to Paris to be with his artist brothers and studied painting at the Academie Julian Until 1905.His early works were as a Post-impressionist and his works were on display in many salons in trendy Paris.In 1911 the brothers held a discussion group in their home town of Puteaux, with many of the prominent artists of the day. They became known as the Putaeux group and their works became known as Orphic Cubism or Orphism. In 1912 Duchamp produced two of his most iconic works, Nude Descending a Staircase No2 and The Bride.
“Duchamp's nude was proclaimed scandalous, this was Analytic Cubism (a static representation of movement).This style found its demise in WW1, In 1913 Duchamp withdrew from the paint scene and in a letter he wrote “Painting is washed up. Who will ever do anything better than the propeller? Tell me, can you do that?”
After war broke out in 1914 Duchamp moved to America arriving in New York in 1915 this is where and soms friends started the Dadaist movement and was instrumental in the Dadaist magazine The Blind Man.Dadaism was short lived only lasting from 1915-1920,During Duchamps stay in New York he created his Readymades his major work of this period was the infamous Fountain. A Quote from the time :- “Duchamp submitted this urinal to the Society of Independent Artists exhibit in 1917. The jury, however, rejected the work. The rejection was all the more spectacular since the jury’s principle was to display everything submitted. By the end of the century, however, Duchamp’s urinal would be voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century”.
After the war Duchamp moved back to Paris only briefly then on to Buenos Aires where he became a 'victim of chess' and then eventually back to New York. Duchamp made a series of collaberations with many artists at this time calling them his 'Kinetic works' he also experimented with Photography Music and some Cinema works. By 1923 Duchamp was hardly practicing art he referred to himself in a quote
“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art—and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position”.
In the 1040's Duchamp edited the surrealist magazine VVV and in the 1960's he co-found an international literary group to oppose the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, named Oulipo. Through a great deal of his life Duchamp had an inter-mate relationship with the Surrealist and yet never joined them.
“In 1966, some quarter of a century since his last discernible work of art, Duchamp revealed his final piece, Etant Donne: 1. la chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’eclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas). He had been working on this piece secretly since 1946; not even his spouse and closest friends knew of the work, they were all convinced he had given up art over two decades before. Given Duchamp’s work, his stance on the art of the late 20th century is pivotal. An erroneously attributed quote, suggests a rather negative attitude:”
“This Neo-Dada, which they call New Realism, Pop Art, Assemblage, etc., is an easy way out, and lives on what Dada did. When I discovered the ready-mades I sought to discourage aesthetics. In Neo-Dada they have taken my readymades and found aesthetic beauty in them, I threw the bottle-rack and the urinal into their faces as a challenge and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.”
This quote, however, was not uttered by Duchamp himself, but by fellow Dadaist, Hans Richter. Nonetheless, the letter in which the quote is contained suggests that Duchamp fully approved of the sentiment. His stance regarding late 20th century art is seemingly further complicated by a statement from 1964:”.
Duchamp died on 2nd October 1968.
Quotes in this article from
www.egs.edu Marcel Duchamp Biography
Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp was born in France on 28th July 1887, Marcel went to Paris to be with his artist brothers and studied painting at the Academie Julian Until 1905.His early works were as a Post-impressionist and his works were on display in many salons in trendy Paris.In 1911 the brothers held a discussion group in their home town of Puteaux, with many of the prominent artists of the day. They became known as the Putaeux group and their works became known as Orphic Cubism or Orphism. In 1912 Duchamp produced two of his most iconic works, Nude Descending a Staircase No2 and The Bride.
“Duchamp's nude was proclaimed scandalous, this was Analytic Cubism (a static representation of movement).This style found its demise in WW1, In 1913 Duchamp withdrew from the paint scene and in a letter he wrote “Painting is washed up. Who will ever do anything better than the propeller? Tell me, can you do that?”
After war broke out in 1914 Duchamp moved to America arriving in New York in 1915 this is where and soms friends started the Dadaist movement and was instrumental in the Dadaist magazine The Blind Man.Dadaism was short lived only lasting from 1915-1920,During Duchamps stay in New York he created his Readymades his major work of this period was the infamous Fountain. A Quote from the time :- “Duchamp submitted this urinal to the Society of Independent Artists exhibit in 1917. The jury, however, rejected the work. The rejection was all the more spectacular since the jury’s principle was to display everything submitted. By the end of the century, however, Duchamp’s urinal would be voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century”.
After the war Duchamp moved back to Paris only briefly then on to Buenos Aires where he became a 'victim of chess' and then eventually back to New York. Duchamp made a series of collaberations with many artists at this time calling them his 'Kinetic works' he also experimented with Photography Music and some Cinema works. By 1923 Duchamp was hardly practicing art he referred to himself in a quote
“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art—and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position”.
In the 1040's Duchamp edited the surrealist magazine VVV and in the 1960's he co-found an international literary group to oppose the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, named Oulipo. Through a great deal of his life Duchamp had an inter-mate relationship with the Surrealist and yet never joined them.
“In 1966, some quarter of a century since his last discernible work of art, Duchamp revealed his final piece, Etant Donne: 1. la chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’eclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas). He had been working on this piece secretly since 1946; not even his spouse and closest friends knew of the work, they were all convinced he had given up art over two decades before. Given Duchamp’s work, his stance on the art of the late 20th century is pivotal. An erroneously attributed quote, suggests a rather negative attitude:”
“This Neo-Dada, which they call New Realism, Pop Art, Assemblage, etc., is an easy way out, and lives on what Dada did. When I discovered the ready-mades I sought to discourage aesthetics. In Neo-Dada they have taken my readymades and found aesthetic beauty in them, I threw the bottle-rack and the urinal into their faces as a challenge and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.”
This quote, however, was not uttered by Duchamp himself, but by fellow Dadaist, Hans Richter. Nonetheless, the letter in which the quote is contained suggests that Duchamp fully approved of the sentiment. His stance regarding late 20th century art is seemingly further complicated by a statement from 1964:”.
Duchamp died on 2nd October 1968.
Quotes in this article from
www.egs.edu Marcel Duchamp Biography
I used these web sites for my research and also used some quotes from them.