Duchamp interviews

[robjacksontop]

I'lll have to ask Princess Peussie about this one. She was a friend of Duchamp and owned one of his urinals.

[tirompoicculo]

i love you marcel you changed my life.

[soldierofvanity]

h looks VERY sinister, sort of what he achieved in art too i geuss. sinister, but, very unintended i geuss.

[saptemai]

Original WHITE ART = classical beauty, nature, harmony

jew inspired modern art = vile, shocking, abhorrrent, degrading

[ImaginedWriter]

Duchamp? Non! Douche-Chump.

[FrostXFire]

@ImaginedWriter And what are you basing that upon, mon ami?

[ImaginedWriter]

@FrostXFire The anti-artist's own words and "work".

[xeal1387]

Marcel Duchamp=Original gangsta

[kirliani]

der erste Antikünstler und Kunstbetrüger

the first anti-artist art fraud

[penutbutterjelly1]

Why is he so cool?

[josepgrifollcasas]

EL GRAN CRISTAL:

[tlaniganschmidt]

all it is is Transubstatiation: aka theRomaan-Catholic belief that when the priest says "this is my Body" & this is my blood" bread & wine become(literally) Christ's body & blood through the "power" of the priest,to the believer,it looks just-like bread & wine but is now a body & blood. all Duchamp did was to secularize-Transubstantiation,­turning the "ART-WORLD" into a Faith-based-community.He is a public-relations genius & that is much of the 20th century.

[MrFalconford]

@tlaniganschmidt hes a commercial, or a magazine cover, a supermodel something like that or a bumper sticker

[Mykelyna]

I love this man :D :D :D

[lourak]

It seems to me that if you need to ask the question about whether a "work" is a work of art - well then...it most probably is NOT! This, I think is the most reasonable and workable view. Now - if you say, even the great artists, composers, etc., of the past faced, at times, serious opposition - I would say that noone ever questioned even the most controversial advances in their art form by the greats of the past in this way.

[pjeli]

Could someone transcribe what Marcel Duchamp says? I can't understand what he says - mainly in the beginning! Thanks!

[pjeli]

@pjeli Does he say "I don't care about the WORD 'art' " ?????

[RogerVicorGreen]

Economic and social conditions affect every aspect of an individual's life. The role of art is not only to represent such conditions truthfully, but also to seek to improve them.

[boogiebuddy01]

are there any other interviews of him anywhere?

[fissionchips223]

What a fantastic video. . . thank you so much for posting this. Indeed, the struggle between "art" and "craft" seems almost a shooting war now. . . I'm sorry, you can master as many skills as you want (and I have), but for me, it is this asking of questions about our human condition that REALLY makes "art" special. . . this can screw an artist's financial trajectory, but I'm utterly blown-away by the leaps Duchamp gave us as humans and artists. I'm forever indebted to him.

[Fractaloop]

On this days ART is Paint. If I make a piece of jewellery from a string of wire, that is not see as ART ! Why is that ?? Why people pay 1000£ for some paint and they do not give value for a piece of ART that come from the hands of a Craft man ? OH ! I know !! Crafts are not ART, Paint is ART... OR Do the Artists need to die to have some value in the ART he left ?? I think this all have to do with Elitism. DaDa-Project

[lscpaintedinteriors]

Genius or Anti - genius are we ever to know?

he kept his tongue firmly in his cheek thats what made him completely different from the rest .......Unique .............. or  anti - unique!?? je ne sais pas!!

[KishoAudioVisual]

Godfather of Contemporary Art ... Much More ... Endless

[boogiebuddy01]

shit is lame

[braedon173]

with every new generation of artists, the whole genre will be reinvented yet again - good old fashioned talent and craftsmanship will always win out it in the end......

[nikossyren88]

I ADMIRE DUCHAMP ALOT-HIS IDEA'S ARE LIBERATING & INTERESTING-STILL,HE IS RESPONSIBLE-INDIRECTLY-FOR TRIVIALISING ART...WHERE IT'S IN THE POSITION IT IS TODAY...I THINK,ON SOME LEVEL,THAT IT'LL SHIFT BACK AGAIN TO IT'S ARTISAN ROOTS-OF CRAFT...THESE THINGS COME & GO...HE'S VERY HARD TO COMPREHEND,THOUGH-A FASCINATING MAN...READ CALVIN TOMKINS BIO. IF YOU'RE A FAN xoxox.

[BloatedSensations]

@nikossyren88 "I THINK,ON SOME LEVEL,THAT IT'LL SHIFT BACK AGAIN TO IT'S ARTISAN ROOTS-OF CRAFT"

Oh God, I hope not!

[vassiliscompo]

@BloatedSensations Why is that?... Just for the artist to be a more respectful role in society than the craftsman?...

[BloatedSensations]

@vassiliscompo No. It's because when the focus shifts to being on the craft, art stagnates and regurgitation eventually becomes the order of the day. Sure, we may get a period where we get some "prettier" art, but what in the hell is that worth? The deepest worth of art is art as a vehicle of exploration of the human condition. The time of artist as cabinetmaker is, or at least should be, over. Art has grown so far beyond that. There is no value in recession.

[akaprana]

The Hitler of the art world. He is what he called himself- an anti-artist. Too bad so many people have lost sight of this aspect and make something they call conceptual art which is by his own definition anti-art.

[srlouart]

Marcel Duchamp is the most important artist of the xx century, no question about it.

[simeonbanner]

I don't think he had and spiritual feeling for art. I think Picasso was an artist of life but Duchamp was always to death. Matisse was sensual. I just don't think the games Duchamp played would have interested a man like Matisse or even Picasso.

[bacofishtaco]

Hearing the voice of such a genius is crazy...

[beradification]

much praise to pierre pinoncelli!!

[shapeswentagain]

@beradification Ponincelli revered Duchamp. He defiled not the original, which was mysteriously lost, but Duchamp's replacement replica. He was angry at his hero's willingness to make a replica of something Ponincelli thought was so revolutionary. Thus, he wanted revenge for this betrayal of the art. Just so you know, praising Ponincelli means taking Duchamp more seriously than he took himself.

[beradification]

@shapeswentagain I personally don't care what Pinoncelli thought about anything. But he did the right thing in pissing in the urinal because that is all it is, a simple urinal. Duchamp obviously made a replica in order to maximize his profits; if the thought was revolutionary then why would he have to make copies? I take seriously most people who make exagerated claims which don't match with reality. Con-artists and fanatics.

[shapeswentagain]

@beradification Duchamp never called the urinal art. Upon its first display, there was a disclaimer stating that it was in no way, shape, or form a work of art. Duchamp didn't like art, which is ironic because he was quite good at it. Nude Descending a Staircase is quite a piece to see. Personally, I loathe the conceptual art of the present, but I like Duchamp. The Fountain is a testament to the idiocy of curators and their willingness to cash in on anything. Duchamp was intelligent for sure.

[beradification]

@shapeswentagain Whatever he calls it, it took on qualities which he professes to stand against.

So why didn't he just speak against bad and pointless productions without producing them? He was obviously in it for money and notoriety.

[shapeswentagain]

@beradification I have to disagree. I would say 99% of Duchamp's career was a search. He first mastered Impressionism, Cezanne-ism, Cubism, etc. Then he abandoned the "retinal" for the conceptual. Good art has ideas. But he was still lost in how to execute. The Fountain is just a test for me. He played with ideas to no avail until he "quit" art to play chess. After 25 years, he made one undeniable piece, Etant Donnes, binding the power and beauty of his first period with the ideas of the next.

[shapeswentagain]

@beradification What today's conceptual artists don't realize that Duchamp ultimately understood is that art needs ideas and power, beauty and mystery. Today's crowd would rather just throw around some pseudo-ideas and discard the rest. It took Duchamp a lifetime, but he ended with a meticulously crafted masterpiece, Etant Donnes. If you ever go to Philly, you should see it, even if just to prove me wrong. I applaud his long term career for the mini rebellions leading up to the brilliant finish.

[trojanlol]

nimporte quoi aussi laid que ce soit aussi indifferent que ce soit deviendra beau et joli après 40 ans, vous pouvez êtes tranquille" ^^

[lusewicz]

ES NECESARIO UNA TRADUCCION AL CASTELLANO.

[beradification]

How Duchamp fooled the French into believing he was great is beyond me. Shame on France for celebrating such a stain on 20th century thought.

[climbaesthetic]

@beradification HAH! He "fooled" more than the French you idiot. He shaped 20th century thought all over the world. Maybe you should rethink the historical context of the movement he was involved in. Then you would realize it is rather analogous with humanities thoughts and feeling after the first World War. So shame on you for speaking about things you know nothing about.

[beradification]

@climbaesthetic It sounds like you plagiarized that from a New York times article. He might have influenced stalinism, but that's it. He isn't a great thinker or a great anything, just a fraud.

[doctorhiguita]

conscience!!!

[camiEntras]

confuso e inexplicable para entender en latinoamerica.

[pAnic20059]

hey

sheba021 if you can make money putting a urinal into an art show, WHY WOULDNT YOU?

hahaha its hilarious. i love dada

[31122051]

Il caro buon vecchio Duchamp, artista DETERIORATO per eccellenza.

[BuLLanTiFa]

and is anarchy!

marcel duchamp is a genius

[sheba021]

Yes, Duchamp is indeed one of the most influential artists of all time. He showed a school of other largely talentless "artists" how to make large sums of money with very little effort.

[almanacofsleep]

@sheba021 "make large sums of money with very little effort." don't know what your talking about, most artists can't make a living out of their art.

[billheartyface]

his english gets really bad near the end

[canadarox14]

Wow... he had a lot of freckles, didn't he? He's one of the best parts of studying modern art. He always makes me laugh.

[MsNatFan]

Hey, did you know theres a retrospective of Nat Finkelsteins work (featuring Duchamp) from 20th Jan - 14th Feb at a gallery in London called IDEA GENERATION you should check it out! :-)

[outlier56]

dope

[puskaradiolove]

GENIUS!!!

[meesterschilders]

placed into my playlist of Marcel Duchamp, thanks

[questacris]

genius

[oualiart]

Marcel Du cheat!!!

[SiriusRKW]

Duchamp was probably the most intelligent of all artists during the 20th century - a real genius !

[beradification]

@SiriusRKW I disagree, I think it is clear that he was not a top rate artist, for instance, he once tried making a chess set, but could not fabricate the most difficult pieces- the knights- so he had a workmen make them. He was essentially talentless so he made up pranks to perform that don't have any lasting effect. If you want an artist of genius in the 20th century that would have to be Dali. He was extraordinary at painting, drawing and performances and created works of unique style.

[ScottMasson]

@beradification Uh....(Duchamp) "didn't have any lasting effect"? You might need to re-think this statement. Although I love Dali, I will be the first to admit that Dali would not have had a career if it wasn't for R. Mutt.

[jeancocteau1]

@SiriusRKW I dont care for Art it has been totally discredited I want to get rid of it! I wish people today got the memo. NEWS FLASH. Art is Dead. It died in 1924, when the DaDa's declared it's death. Who are these so called artists today trying to fool? Some of us know 20th century European history, all though its not taught in the schools anymore so that's probably a contributing factor..

[annette37a]

@SiriusRKW I'd say during all history of art ;)

[rlevanony1]

@SiriusRKW I thought about these things maybe when I was 4. There is no genius.

[Neptunade]

I wish someone would subtitle the french part.

[steevestuff]

chess

[Ilean33]

I like but I choose information about The large glass

[ersonoro]

..unnecessary adoration of duchamp today...

[babalas911]

duchamp is an art genius!!!!!!!!

[Euroflounder]

That's such an ironic statement.

[howcynicalofme]

nah.

[christopheye]

Wouldn't calling him that make him roll in his grave?? He's the anti-artist!

[cronicadelojo]

fuck duchamp

[codecxo]

He would probably love to hear you say this!

[cronicadelojo]

in fact you are right

[boogiebuddy01]

i need mooore!!

[peeedja]

I can't download this! :((((

[overkill99999]

i dont understand a sh** of his french talking, but i love to see and hear him

[doublevelvet]

Thank you so much for this, even.

[vladjes]

Can someone tell me the title of this documentary? Thanks.

[jamesmarchii]

the fountain is my favorite piece.

[lloplop]

me too. it changed everything.

[spaced9999]

for the worse, now we have no talent tossers like martin creed and mark leckey.

[lloplop]

no talent? it must be horrible to be so limited.

[bluhousworker]

@lloplop really? you feel Duchamp had no talent? explain please.

[lloplop]

no no I was responding to someone! Duchamp is high on my list of most influential artists of all time!