Marcel Duchamp
He then took the shape that the string fell in and carved draftmen's straighedges accordingly.
Through this piece of art he is thinking about chance and accident versus the meticulous and skilled paintings of his contemporaries.
This idea sprung from a budding interest in physics and maths as he drew away from 'artistic society' which did not recognise his work.
3 Standard Stoppages
Another work of his which experiments with machinery and physics is 'The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors". This is made with various materials (e.g copper) on glass and comprises of two panels. The top represents the bride and her awakening sexuality and the bottom represents the bachelors. He describes the figures as 'desire motors' and looks into the chemistry between two sexes or the 'sparks' that fly between each other. He explores the idea of sex as purely a physical action (like cogs and mechanisms) working without emotion.
The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors
Throughout his career, Duchamp challenged what society percieves as being art and as a joke entered a urinal in an exhibition in order to provoke a thoughtful response from society.
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Hi Libby,
Hate to be the one to tell you but MOMA is about to let the world know, what only experts knew years ago ...but did not want to admit.
Stephen Jay Gould and I discovered that the threads were, in fact longer than a meter. Yes, that is correct. The old saw is a canard.
The three threads are not only significantly longer than a meter but the ends are SEWN from the top to the back of the canvas.
These facts make it impossible to tell the old story. It becomes obvious that Duchamp could not have glued the threads where they landed ..as he would have been required to unglued them and then sew them through the back too.
Once you know the above facts, you can not only see for yourself the now obvious hole where the thread is sewn through, but can also see the thread length extending beyond the hole underneath.
Duchamp always said he hated the retina and loved the beauty of the mind. With this work, as well as others, he proves it. One sees with the mind and not with the eyes.
Check out our old 1999 article and ask yourself, why didn't the Duchamp scholars tell their students the truth about this work? Why did museum after museum exhibit this work since 1999 and never mention that the troubling facts mess up "the first art work in history based on chance." If interested...
Go to http://www.toutfait.com
"Hidden in Plain Sight: Duchamp's 3 Standard Stoppages,More Truly a 'Stoppage' (An Invisible Mending) Than We Ever Realized"
by Shearer, Rhonda Roland and Gould, Stephen Jay
http://www.toutfait.com/duchamp.jsp?postid=677&keyword=three%20standard%20stoppages
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