lunadalionly1 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

what is the purpose of art? to be able to communicate an idea? or just to express it?

lapsus5 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

a freakin' genius!

lapsus5 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

I love Duchamp. He was an innovator in the art world. He realized art could surpass modernist trends and did what nowadays we call "new media" art and "installation". He was a true vanguard in the art world.

nichelodeonband (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Nichelodeon's first promo is called "Cinemanemico", an homage to a genius

yellville (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Funny you should mention Lang (whom I love, and perhaps appreciate more than I do Duchamp, though I don't think the two bear comparison). The wheel aesthetic actually reminds me very much of Lang. However, just because the two artists are from the same time period doesn't mean it makes sense for the quality of their pieces to be compared broadly and generally.

sheep41 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

arts next big question is"can art get any more simple then this?" reply with your thought and commenti say no cause casue i just cant think of anything else? if there was something more simple someone would of done it by now!

mopsius (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

A seminal work at the beginning of the second stage of cinema, bridging the kinematic of Nude Descending a staircase and the effects of Doctor Melies.By the end of his life and work, Duchamp had already transcended television and computer graphics, and is now still at least fifty years ahead of lagging world.

xicocamotl (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

I guess it's not necessary to "understand" a work of art; at least, not in the domestic way you "understand" other things... Visual arts, especially since the artist you call "the guy" showed up in 1914, demands from you as a viewer something more than just opening your eyes. If you are interested in the origins of contemporary art, you may want to study in depth the work of Marcel Duchamp. Two books I suggest: the Complete Works (by A. Schwartz) and his biography by Calvin Tomkins.

republikanin (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

do you think you're an artist if you make something only you can understand? that's what the guy did. the rest claims to see in it some incredible message, but most of them don't get it as well and pretend to be smart. give u an example: a friend of mine wrote a song on having sex on a train. he used no dirty words, just tried to make it nice: the audience said it was a metaphysical story on searching of the meaning of life and the autor must have a deep spirituality. c what i mean?

xicocamotl (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

They are puns, amazing wordplays in french