Marcel Duchamp

In today’s class, we learned about an artist names Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp was a French artist who created the piece that we saw today, the Fountain. The fountain is a urinal. He refers to this as “found art” because he created art out of an object that already existed. Duchamp wanted to choose an object that was attractive to him. It could attract with beauty or ugliness. Many people find this to be controversial because they claim that these “readymades”  are not real art. People feel that they are not real art because he uses preexisting objects, rather than create his own. I feel that his work is still considered art because it is all in the way the he presents the objects that forms the art.