TownieDeac
words are futile devices
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Perhaps my favorite abstract work is by the much hated Marcel Duchamp:
He would go on to begin pushing the limits of what could be considered art, with works like Fountain and Bicycle Wheel.
I know this led to some heated discussions in my sculpture class in London. Duchamp himself did not want these later works to be galleried, but when they did, he wrote extensively on why the question of what made art was irrelevant. I personally can only really speak to what piques my interest. The latter two pieces don't really intrigue me in the same way his earlier work did.
He would go on to begin pushing the limits of what could be considered art, with works like Fountain and Bicycle Wheel.
I know this led to some heated discussions in my sculpture class in London. Duchamp himself did not want these later works to be galleried, but when they did, he wrote extensively on why the question of what made art was irrelevant. I personally can only really speak to what piques my interest. The latter two pieces don't really intrigue me in the same way his earlier work did.