Marcel duchamp brief biography of george washington
Duchamp was born in France but eventually became an American citizen.
Marcel Duchamp (American, b....
Marcel Duchamp
artistsculptor
July 28, (age 81)
Blainville-Crevon, Normandy, FranceThe start of Marcel Duchamp's career can be counted from the early s when he contributed drawing cartoons for comic magazines while studying in Paris.
Under the influence of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, Duchamp produced boldly colored pictures that demonstrated a mastery of post impressionist color theory. In , he was called up for a compulsory military service in the 39th Infantry Regiment, serving for a printer in Rouen.
L'oeuvre superpose trois images: un profil de George Washington, la carte des Etats-Unis et la bannière étoilée.Some of Duchamp's early works were featured at the Salon d'Automne and at the Salon des Indépendants the next year. Continuing his experiments with such major contemporary trends in painting as Post-Impressionism, Fauvism (Portrait of the Artist’s Father, ), and Cubism, he seemed to have no habit of any of them.
He was outside artistic tradition not only in shunning repetition but also in not attempting a prolific output or frequent exhibition of his wo
