Summer  June 3^rd 2008  54” x 64”  oil on canvas, including enamel, acrylic and ink .

Bushwish Open Studios Weekend of June 7^th - June 8^th

Enamel on canvas 40″x40″

Enamel on canvas 40″x40″

Enamel on canvas 40″x40″

Enamel over oil pastel on canvas 40″x40″

mixed media

» “Artist, born in Blainville, France. The brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and half brother of Jacques Villon, he became famous with ‘Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2’ (1912) exhibited at the New York Armory Show (1913), and was a founder of the Société Anonyme,New York (1920), an organization promoting nonobjective art.

An intermittent visitor to New York, he led the American Dada movement that tried to convey the absurdity of life. He was among the first to construct mobiles and to produce works made of found (junk) objects. His glass,wire, and painted foil construction, ‘The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even’ (1915-23), was one of his last major works. One of his most famous pieces was ‘L.H.O.O.Q’, a reproduction of Leonardo’s ‘Mona Lisa’ to which he added a moustache and goatee. Settling in the USA(1942), he became a US citizen in 1955 and virtually abandoned art in his final decades to concentrate on playing chess.” SOURCE

Nude Descending the Staircase

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, 1915-1923
“It took eleven years to bring this work to what Duchamp called a state of “final incompletion.” Only when it was accidentally cracked in 1926 did Duchamp announce that it was “finished.”‘

Fountain

Bicycle (found objects)

Hat Rack

“Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919, rectified readymade, pencil on a reproduction — a chromolithograph, 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches, private collection, Paris. As if the addition of mustache and beard weren’t enough of a poke at this most famous of paintings, the letters Duchamp penciled — L.H.O.O.Q. — at the bottom of his altered image are meaningless in themselves, but when read aloud in French, make the sound of “Elle a chaud au cul,” meaning, “She has a hot ass.”‘

Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas
(Etant Donnés: 1° La Chute d’eau, 2° Le gaz d’éclairage ), 1946-66
Outside and inside (The Philadelphia Museum of Art)

This is what the viewer sees once he peeks through a small hole in the door . (above)

The information which follows comes by way of other means, not my own. Each day there will be a new postmodernist artist presented. Lets begin.

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“Postmodernism is highly debated even among postmodernists themselves. For an initial characterization of its basic premises, consider anthropological critic Melford Spiro’s excellent synopsis of the basic tenets of postmodernism:

“The postmodernist critique of science consists of two interrelated arguments, epistemological and ideological. Both are based on subjectivity. First, because of the subjectivity of the human object, anthropology, according to the epistemological argument cannot be a science; and in any event the subjectivity of the human subject precludes the possibility of science discovering objective truth. Second, since objectivity is an illusion, science according to the ideological argument, subverts oppressed groups, females, ethnics, third-world peoples (Spiro 1996).”"

* below you will find a guide to postmodernism *

http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/pomo.htm

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