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=Marcel Duchamp=

==== Marcel Duchamp was born in France in 1887 to a very artistic family. His grandmother, Emile Nicolle, was a painter and engraver. His siblings Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti all became successful artists as well. Marcel was mostly taught art by his brother Jacques but also had a drawing teacher who did not like avant-garde styles of art. Duchamp originally worked with Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and Fauvism. He was able to get some of his early work into the Salon d’Automne in 1908 because Jacques was part of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. ====

==== Duchamp is most famous for his work with an art movement called Dadaism, or Dada, another avant-garde movement. This involved him using an art style using Readymades. These were essentially regular objects that Duchamp found and then called art. Of these were the famous // Fountain // and // L.H.O.O.Q. // which are a urinal and a postcard with slight alterations. Duchamp had a large impact on the later development of art after World War I. His contributions to Dada art later led to new styles of art, like Pop Art. Duchamp in his later life, though, said that he did not like art and thought the world would be better off without it and anti-art themes were common theme in Dada art. ====

[[image:Duchamp.jpg width="154" height="255" caption="Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Cubism "]][[image:Fountain.jpg caption="Fountain"]][[image:LHOOQ.jpg align="right" caption="L.H.O.O.Q."]]
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp