“We make a bit of small talk and then he drops the bomb. “Look, Erin. About your money. I’m in a little hot water right now.” “What’s wrong?” I ask. “I’ve done something I shouldn’t have. Just between, you and me, I borrowed some of your money. Mid you, I have full intentions of paying it back.”… Thanks for being so understanding about this, Erin. I’ll work it all out. Don’t worry.”
This was a really big conflict in the book. Ronald was named to hold and conserve the money that came from Erin’s parents. Throughout the entire book, whenever they (Tracy, Erin, Trent) needed money, Ronald denied them, saying he can’t just give them money for anything or every time they ask for it. Ronald seemed to have some sort of wisdom or understanding that dipping into there needs to be a great importance for it. Now it seems that, that wisdom of keeping the money is gone because instead of giving the money to his nieces when they desperately need it, he spends the money on a risky business, which he is breaking the law, by doing that. I also like this passage because Erin finally takes some action in actually displaying how she feels
Friday, May 15, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
creative work
The warm shadow of a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavy lightsome style of the seventies (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”108). The American (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120), knocked at the door (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”109), he (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”110) were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into a still more shadow. The Negro led (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”109) him (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) into the parlor. When the Negro opened the blinds of one window (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”109), he (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”109) could see that the leather was cracked; and when (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”109) he (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”110) sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about his (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”111) thighs, spinning with slow motes in a single sun-ray. A small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of the pallid hue. Her eye, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another. She (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”109) and the girl (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) stood in the door (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”109).
“Well, let’s try and have a fine time (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121).”
“All right, I was trying (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121).”
“It’s really awfully simple (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121)”
“The girl looked at the ground (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121)”
“I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. Its really not anything (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121).”
The girl did not say anything (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121). The girl (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121) stood up and walked to the end of the (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122) parlor (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 109)
The (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”110) small, fat woman in black (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”109) says to the man (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121) “That’s the only thing that bothers (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121) her (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) it’s the only thing that’s made (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121) her (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) unhappy (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121).” “And you think then (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121) she (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121) be all right and be happy (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121)?”
The girl looked across at the (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 122) parlor (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 109), he looked up (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 123), “You don’t have to be afraid. If you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121).” “I think it’s the best thing to do. But I don’t want you to do it if you don’t really want to (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121).”
The girl (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 120), her hair was cut short, making her (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 111) have (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121) a vague resemblance to those angels in colored churches windows-sort of tragic and serene (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 111).
The (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 110) small, fat woman in black (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 109 says to the man (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121) “Last week (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159) she (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 120) tried to commit suicide (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159),”
“Why (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159) (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 108)?”
“She (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) was in despair (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159).”
“What about (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159)?”
“Nothing (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159).”
“How do you know it was nothing (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159)?”
“What did (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159) she (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) want to kill (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159) herself (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) for (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159)?”
“How should I know (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159)?”
“How did she do it (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159)?”
“Hung herself with a rope (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 160).”
“Who cut her down (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 160)?”
“The manservant (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”108).”
“Why did he do it (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 160)?”
“Fear for her soul (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 160).”
“I don’t care about me (Hemingway “Hills like White Elephants”122).”
“What do you mean (Hemingway “Hills like White Elephants”122)?”
“I don’t care about me (Hemingway “Hills like White Elephants”122).”
“Well, I care about you (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“You’ve got to realize that I don’t want you to do it if you don’t want to (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“Would you do something for me (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122)?”
“Would you please please please please please please please please stop talking (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“I don’t want you to do it if you feel that way (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“I don’t want you to do anything that you don’t want to do-- (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“I’ll scream (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“I’d better get the bags….. (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122)”
He picked up the two heavy bags and carried them (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).
“Well, let’s try and have a fine time (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121).”
“All right, I was trying (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121).”
“It’s really awfully simple (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121)”
“The girl looked at the ground (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121)”
“I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. Its really not anything (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121).”
The girl did not say anything (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121). The girl (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121) stood up and walked to the end of the (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122) parlor (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 109)
The (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”110) small, fat woman in black (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”109) says to the man (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121) “That’s the only thing that bothers (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121) her (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) it’s the only thing that’s made (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121) her (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) unhappy (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”121).” “And you think then (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121) she (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121) be all right and be happy (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121)?”
The girl looked across at the (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 122) parlor (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 109), he looked up (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 123), “You don’t have to be afraid. If you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121).” “I think it’s the best thing to do. But I don’t want you to do it if you don’t really want to (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121).”
The girl (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 120), her hair was cut short, making her (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 111) have (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121) a vague resemblance to those angels in colored churches windows-sort of tragic and serene (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 111).
The (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 110) small, fat woman in black (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 109 says to the man (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 121) “Last week (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159) she (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” 120) tried to commit suicide (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159),”
“Why (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159) (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” 108)?”
“She (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) was in despair (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159).”
“What about (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159)?”
“Nothing (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159).”
“How do you know it was nothing (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159)?”
“What did (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159) she (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) want to kill (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159) herself (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”120) for (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159)?”
“How should I know (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159)?”
“How did she do it (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 159)?”
“Hung herself with a rope (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 160).”
“Who cut her down (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 160)?”
“The manservant (Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”108).”
“Why did he do it (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 160)?”
“Fear for her soul (Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 160).”
“I don’t care about me (Hemingway “Hills like White Elephants”122).”
“What do you mean (Hemingway “Hills like White Elephants”122)?”
“I don’t care about me (Hemingway “Hills like White Elephants”122).”
“Well, I care about you (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“You’ve got to realize that I don’t want you to do it if you don’t want to (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“Would you do something for me (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122)?”
“Would you please please please please please please please please stop talking (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“I don’t want you to do it if you feel that way (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“I don’t want you to do anything that you don’t want to do-- (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“I’ll scream (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).”
“I’d better get the bags….. (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122)”
He picked up the two heavy bags and carried them (Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”122).
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
annotated bibliography
Modern Painters. Writers on Artists. New York: DK Publishing, Inc., 2001
…the efficacy of the metamorphosis depends absolutely on our knowing what the thing was
Lambirth, Andrew. "Canter through Dada.(Exhibitions)." Spectator 306.9368 (March 22, 2008): 50(2). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009.
Collings, Matthew. "Anything Goes.(Arts; Exhibition)(Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Man Ray)." Time International (Europe Edition) 171.10 (March 10, 2008): 49. Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009.
Lewis, Ben. “Who's the Dada? The joke's on us: Francis Picabia's Femmes Au Bull Dog (1940-42), above; Untitled (Ferns) by Man Ray (1923), left, and Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), far left.” The Evening Standard (London, England), Feb 21, 2008 p43. InfoTrac. Boston Public Library.
Savigneau, Josiane. "Duchamp, Marcel Marcel Duchamp.(Marcel Duchamp: La vie a credit)(Brief article)(Book review)." Biography 30.2 (Spring 2007): 261(1). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009.
Yapou, Yonna. Apollo 165.540 (Feb 2007): 80(3). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009.
Modernism for America: The Societe Anonyme: this travelling exhibition captures the spirit of discovery and excitement generated by a society founded in 1920 by Katherine Dreier and Marcel Duchamp to promote modern art in the USA.(EXHIBITIONS).
Stuckey, Charles.Art in America 94.6 (June-July 2006): 142(12). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009. ”
Dada lives: the subject of an appropriately shape-shifting exhibition seen in Paris, Washington and now New York, Dada wasprod the 20th century's most all-inclusive and far-reaching art movement, rejecting nothing, no matter how vulgar, provocative or insincere. Today's art is, in many ways, its product
West, Patrick. "Duchamp and his urinal: he was just taking the piss." New Statesman (1996) 133.4718 (Dec 13, 2004): 12(2). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009.
Mount, Nick. "The return of beauty." Queen's Quarterly 115.2 (Summer 2008): 168(18). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 2 Mar. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itx/start.do?prodId=EAIM.
Tata, Michael Angelo. "Rrose Selavy, Barbarella, Madonna: Cybersublimity after the Orgasmotron.(Critical essay)." Nebula 4.3 (Sept 2007): 40(23). Academic OneFile. Gale. Malden Public Library. 2 Mar. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=AONE.
Singer, Thomas. "In the Manner of Duchamp, 1942-47: the years of the 'mirrorical return'." The Art Bulletin 86.2 (June 2004): 346(24). Academic OneFile. Gale. Malden Public Library. 2 Mar. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=AONE.
"Marcel Duchamp." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 47. Gale Group, 2003. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC
…the efficacy of the metamorphosis depends absolutely on our knowing what the thing was
Lambirth, Andrew. "Canter through Dada.(Exhibitions)." Spectator 306.9368 (March 22, 2008): 50(2). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009
Collings, Matthew. "Anything Goes.(Arts; Exhibition)(Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Man Ray)." Time International (Europe Edition) 171.10 (March 10, 2008): 49. Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009
Lewis, Ben. “Who's the Dada? The joke's on us: Francis Picabia's Femmes Au Bull Dog (1940-42), above; Untitled (Ferns) by Man Ray (1923), left, and Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), far left.” The Evening Standard (London, England), Feb 21, 2008 p43. InfoTrac. Boston Public Library.
Savigneau, Josiane. "Duchamp, Marcel Marcel Duchamp.(Marcel Duchamp: La vie a credit)(Brief article)(Book review)." Biography 30.2 (Spring 2007): 261(1). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009
Yapou, Yonna. Apollo 165.540 (Feb 2007): 80(3). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009
Modernism for America: The Societe Anonyme: this travelling exhibition captures the spirit of discovery and excitement generated by a society founded in 1920 by Katherine Dreier and Marcel Duchamp to promote modern art in the USA.(EXHIBITIONS).
Stuckey, Charles.Art in America 94.6 (June-July 2006): 142(12). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009
Dada lives: the subject of an appropriately shape-shifting exhibition seen in Paris, Washington and now New York, Dada wasprod the 20th century's most all-inclusive and far-reaching art movement, rejecting nothing, no matter how vulgar, provocative or insincere. Today's art is, in many ways, its product
West, Patrick. "Duchamp and his urinal: he was just taking the piss." New Statesman (1996) 133.4718 (Dec 13, 2004): 12(2). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 Mar. 2009
Mount, Nick. "The return of beauty." Queen's Quarterly 115.2 (Summer 2008): 168(18). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 2 Mar. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itx/start.do?prodId=EAIM.
Tata, Michael Angelo. "Rrose Selavy, Barbarella, Madonna: Cybersublimity after the Orgasmotron.(Critical essay)." Nebula 4.3 (Sept 2007): 40(23). Academic OneFile. Gale. Malden Public Library. 2 Mar. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=AONE.
Singer, Thomas. "In the Manner of Duchamp, 1942-47: the years of the 'mirrorical return'." The Art Bulletin 86.2 (June 2004): 346(24). Academic OneFile. Gale. Malden Public Library. 2 Mar. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=AONE.
"Marcel Duchamp." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 47. Gale Group, 2003. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC
focus, college essay
There is nothing like being on the water. Feeling your oar pass through the water. Nothing like rolling up to the catch. That feeling of pure awe, pure determination and raw power. The feeling of complete confidence and strength. The perfection of your boat clicking together, catching together, swinging together and finally finishing together. Having four others on the boat, you would think you would not be alone, but you are. The focus is you and only you. When your rowing, yes you watching the person ahead of you and your boat moves as one, but its really only you out there on that river. When you are pulling that oar through the water, your pulling for you. You have self determination and strength. As a rower you push your limits every day. You become stronger not only physical but mentally. You have confidence; you know what you need to do every single time you pull on that oar. You have complete commitment and endurance. Not only do you prove to yourself but the world that you can go above and beyond. You put yourself in perspective, and you pull harder and harder for you and your team.
I am a senior in high school who has a world of opportunity at her door, but has only dreamed of what she is about to enter. Her focus right now is what is she going make of herself? Where is she going? Is she ready to enter this unknown world? These questions are always pondering in my head. But a certain thing is that I will be persistent in this journey of self fulfillment. What rowing has taught me is commitment, endurance, self-determination, self-motivation and that you must love what you do. These are the most important things that rowing has brought into my life and that, is what I will bring with me into this world.
Not only as a rower but a coxswain, you have that sense of what needs to be done and a sense of motivation. Your purpose as a coxswain is you motivate the rower, you remind them of why they row and you give them that confidence in rowing. When you are acting as a coxswain, instead of letting your weaknesses and setbacks affect you and your rowers negatively, you use them as strengths, you use them as a build.
I am a senior in high school who has a world of opportunity at her door, but has only dreamed of what she is about to enter. Her focus right now is what is she going make of herself? Where is she going? Is she ready to enter this unknown world? These questions are always pondering in my head. But a certain thing is that I will be persistent in this journey of self fulfillment. What rowing has taught me is commitment, endurance, self-determination, self-motivation and that you must love what you do. These are the most important things that rowing has brought into my life and that, is what I will bring with me into this world.
Not only as a rower but a coxswain, you have that sense of what needs to be done and a sense of motivation. Your purpose as a coxswain is you motivate the rower, you remind them of why they row and you give them that confidence in rowing. When you are acting as a coxswain, instead of letting your weaknesses and setbacks affect you and your rowers negatively, you use them as strengths, you use them as a build.
marcel duchamp research paper
Marcel Duchamp was born in a Normandy village, “as the son of Eugène Duchamp, a notary, and Marie-Caroline-Lucie Duchamp” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)”, par. 2). “Marcel was the fourth of seven children. Four of them gained fame as artists. Duchamp himself started to paint in his teens. Duchamp's artistic aspirations were a disappointment for his father” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)”, par. 2). “He experimented with Postimpressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism, before ultimately rejecting adherence to one particular style although he maintained a long term connection with Parisian Surrealists” (Sylester 102). Duchamp came from a middle-class family; he would have been poor due to his lack of exploiting his celebrity as an artist (Collings 49). Duchamp and other avant-garde artists disowned the responsibility to create art for the enjoyment of a society. Also disowned the basis “of art that had ruled the West for over 2,000 years” (Mount 168). At fifteen “Duchamp painted in the Impressionistic style” (“Marcel Duchamp”) “inspired works of Claude Monet” (“Marcel Duchamp”). In 1904, he finished school, and accompanied his two brothers in Paris; “internationally known painter Jacques Villon and acclaimed cubist sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon” (“Marcel Duchamp”).
“Largely self-taught” (“Marcel Duchamp”), well-off playing billiards than attending classes Duchamp left the Academie Julian after his first year (“Marcel Duchamp”). Through his brothers, Duchamp “made a meager living” (“Marcel Duchamp”) by “selling cartoons for publication in Parisian magazines, including “Le Lire” and “Le Courier Francais” (“Marcel Duchamp”). Through 1913 and 1914 “Duchamp worked as a librarian” (“Marcel Duchamp”). Finding Paris intolerable, Duchamp went to New York (Liukkonen, par. 6).Duchamp's nihilistic comment on the whole history of the Western art and art museums became an icon of the Dada movement (Liukkonen par. 8). “He was outside artistic tradition not only in shunning repetition but also in not attempting a prolific output or frequent exhibition of his work. In the Fauvist style Marcel painted some of his best early work three or four years after the Fauvist movement itself had died away. In 1911, Duchamp’s painting began to show a trace of Cubism (“Marcel Duchamp” par. 3). “Between 1913 and 1923” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 8) “a stroke of genius led him to a discovery of great importance in contemporary art, the so-called ready-made. In 1913 he produced the “Bicycle Wheel,” which was simply an ordinary bicycle wheel” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 9). “He was then, and remained, an artist whose works would have been sought after but who was content to distribute them free among his friends or to sell them for intentionally small amounts” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 10). “He lived more than ever in semiretirement, content with chess and with producing, as the spirit moved him, some strange and unexpected object” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 15). “This contemplative life was interrupted in about 1960, when the rising generation of American artists realized that Duchamp had found answers for many of their problems. Suddenly tributes came to him from all over the world” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 16). “However, his works were ignored by the public for the greater part of his life. Until 1960 only such avant-garde groups as the Surrealists claimed that he was important, while to “official” art circles and sophisticated critics he appeared to be merely an eccentric and something of a failure” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 17). “He was more than 70 years old when he emerged in the United States as the secret master whose entirely new attitude toward art and society, far from being negative or nihilistic, had led the way to Pop art, Op art, and many of the other movements embraced by younger artists everywhere. Not only did he change the visual arts but he also changed the mind of the artist” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 17). “Duchamp also invented himself a female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy (Eros that’s Life), who appeared in his friends works. Man Ray photographed Rrose Sélavy on several occasions. Under her name Duchamp published in 1939 a book of puns and word games” (Liukkonen, par.10) “In 1927 Duchamp married Lyndie Sarazine-Levassor, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. They divorced in 1928” (Liukkonen, par. 12). “After living for a long time as a bachelor, Duchamp married in 1954 Alexina Sattler Matisse (1906-1995). Next year he became an American citizen. In secret, known only to his wife, he had started to develop an assemblage after World War II, “Etant Donnés”, his visual testament. The exterior consists of an old wooden door, closed, with two peepholes. Through them can be seen a naked girl without pubic hair. In the background is a landscape. Duchamp died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on October 2, 1968. He was buried in Rouen” (Liukkonen, par. 15).
Duchamp, was the inventor of the readymade. He was a prankster “of modernism, who mocked all around and turned jokes, like dressing up in drag” (Lewis, par. 2-4). He created an idea that anything can be art (Collings 49). “Duchamp refused to produce art for the pleasure of a society” (Mount 168(18)). Duchamp refused “to accept the standards of the traditional art community” (“Marcel Duchamp”) he made art “for more theoretical and even humorous concerns” (“Marcel Duchamp”). Duchamp is professed “as iconoclastic, anarchistic and nihilistic” (“Marcel Duchamp”). “Still, after only seventeen years of creating art, Duchamp turned his back on painting, spending the second half of his life playing chess. Quitting art was as much of a statement for Duchamp as his artwork itself had been. His was an uncompromising life” (“Marcel Duchamp”). Duchamp’s nihilism is shown through his pieces. Duchamp’s artwork is to be viewed intellectually. It makes you think hard about what it’s trying to say. You question it, is this art? His artwork also questions whether art should be beautiful or authentic. His “Fountain” is a classic example. The “Fountain” is an early 1900’s porcelain urinal. It’s white and has a signed “R. Mutt 1917” in black ink. This piece is a black and white photograph of the urinal. Many people do not see this as art. Duchamp purposely wanted people to think this. He wanted to challenge what art really is. Is art supposed to be beautiful, is it supposed to be pleasing, agreeable? Duchamp thinks the exact opposite, he thinks art should be provoking you, it should be strange and humorous. “Later in his life Duchamp himself commented on the name of the alter ego he created for this work: 'Mutt' comes from Mott Works, the name of a large sanitary equipment manufacturer. But Mott was too close so I altered it to Mutt, after the daily cartoon strip ‘Mutt and Jeff‘. But not even that much, just R. MUTT. If you separate the capital and lowercase letters we get ‘R.M’ and ‘utt‘, ‘R.M’ would stand for ‘Readymade’ which is the fountain itself and ‘utt’ when read out loud sounds like ‘eut été’ in French (much like Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q.). Together it means ‘Readymade once was, 1917‘. Word games like this are common in Marcel Duchamp's work” (“Fountain (Duchamp)”, par. 6). Not only in his piece but also in the title, Duchamp is challenging the viewer. Another way Duchamp challenges and provokes art, is by taking something that is not considered art at all and turning into art. It goes back to Picasso, who did not only question the “making what is low and rejected into art; it is also a question of bringing dead matter to life” (Sylvester 103). Duchamp took something inanimate and made it something lively, by turning it into art. The provocation that it brings to the viewer’s mind is what brings it to life. Even though, this piece of art is now considered one of the most influential pieces of modern art, it was rejected by the Society of Independent Artists. The board members had debated whether it was art or not. Submitting the artwork under another name, Duchamp soon resigned from the board of the Society of Independent Artists, after the “Fountain” was rejected. Another readymade by Duchamp was the “Bicycle Wheel”. The “Bicycle Wheel” is a bicycle wheel mounted upside down on a stool. This is another piece that challenges the, what is constituted as art. The wheel is black and the stool looks like it is wooden. This readymade is considered Duchamp’s first readymade, even though it was made before the term “readymade” was established. Duchamp has said that it has “’little to do with the idea of the Readymade. Rather it had more to do with the idea of chance. In a way, it was simply letting things go by themselves and having a sort of created atmosphere in a studio, an apartment where you live. Probably, to help your ideas come out of your head. To set the wheel turning was very soothing, very comforting, a sort of opening of avenues on other things than material life of every day. I liked the idea of having a bicycle wheel in my studio. I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoyed looking at the flames dancing in a fireplace. It was like having a fireplace in my studio, the movement of the wheel reminded me of the movement of flames‘” (“Bicycle Wheel”, par. 1). Seems to be that, the purpose of the “Bicycle Wheel” was to help unblocked Duchamp’s mind, to sooth him. One wonders why he submitted it as a piece of artwork. It has that provocation of what it really is and disputed the constitution of art, but why was submit something that seems so personal? Maybe that was the purpose of it, to not only mocks and provoke, but also to comforts and sooth. This readymade is a paradox within its-self. Not only does it have the nihilism in it, but it also does what Duchamp is trying to not do. Which is, that in a way it pleases society. It brings pleasure to society. Duchamp undoes what his artwork is supposed to do. It’s not supposed to please society, it’s supposed to displease society, and show that anything dead or ugly is equally art as something appealing and beautiful. Duchamp mocks beauty in art, humorous in “L.H.O.O.Q.”. Through his own version of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”. It is a replica of the “Mona Lisa” but with an added moustache and goatee in black ink. “L.H.O.O.Q.” in French is elle a chaud au cul, which translated means she has a hot ass. Clearly Duchamp meant for this to be humorous. In his version of the “Mona Lisa”, Duchamp “walked away from a definition of art that had ruled the West for over 2,000 years: no more beautiful imitations. Art should be a concept, not a copy. It should disturb, not please. Most important, it should not be beautiful” (Mount 168(18)). This piece by Duchamp is one of the most famous acts of degrading art. Duchamp would have been very content knowing this. He made it disturbing, not pleasing. It perfectly demonstrated what Duchamp wanted to do. He took an artificial beauty and turned it into what he thought art should be. Art should agitate, should perturb you.
He also does this in his “Paradise”. Instead of the simulated beauty that art is to be, Duchamp painted the beauty of the nude human body. In the painting, there is a man and a woman and they are nude. The man is standing and has his hands covering his male organ. It seems that he is looking straight ahead and has an apathetic look on his face. He neither looks pleased or displeased. His skin is palely white but is accented with a golden yellow, he is much lighter than the woman. He seems to have brown hair and brown eyes. The woman is sitting down and she is much thicker than the man. Her skin is golden with red accents. She is looking the opposite way of the man and seems to be looking at something contently. Her hair has purple in it, but is brown, also her eyes are brown but seem to be outlined with red. She is sitting on her right hand and has her left arm over her stomach. Her left leg is on the ground while her right leg is upright. The man and woman seem to be in a garden or country setting with trees in the background. The rest of the painting is in warm colors: brown, gold, yellow, red. In this painting Duchamp is not only mocking the idea of what beauty is, he is also making a mockery of woman. When humans are at their most natural state, they are at true beauty. That natural state is when they are nude. What Duchamp may be saying is that you’re not really beautiful when you have all this stuff on you. You’re not truly beautiful wearing fashionable clothes or make-up, when you’re done up. Nudity is the realest, truest beauty. It’s the curves and forms of your body that’s beautiful. Here is his nihilism, when you are completely and utterly material less, is when you are beautiful. Not when you’re completely covered with materials. He demolishes the institution of beauty as he does art. He finds that the opposite of what is “supposed to be” actually is what it’s supposed to be. To him, everyone has it wrong, everyone has it backwards. Art isn’t just on the surface; it’s supposed to move you, make you question, make you think. “Paradise” exhibits mockery of woman. It can be perceived that the man in the painting is more civilized then the woman. More respectful, more aware. The man is standing there, well put and covering his male organ, while the woman is on the ground, with her legs opened and she is not covering her chest. The woman is crude. It’s like she just there, she serves no purpose, the man seems to not even acknowledge her presence. Along with Picabia and Man Ray, Duchamp was considered a “playboy, whose treatment of women both in life and art was irredeemably patriarchal” (Lewis 43). Duchamp didn’t respect woman, he thought that they were disposable. He illustrated that in his paintings and life. Marcel Duchamp was a prankster and a playboy, but more importantly he became a godfather to conceptual art. He “was allergic to work. To society too. Paradoxically he has become an icon of contemporary art and remains an enigma” (Savigneau 261). Through his on and off relationship with art, Duchamp created artwork that would mock, provoke, and humor its viewers. He mocked and humored with “L.H.O.O.Q.” and provoked the constitutions of art with the “Fountain”. “Duchamp's work continued to attract both praise and criticism, and by late 1913 he was searching for greater freedom of artistic expression than that allowed by either cubism or futurism. He had at this time developed a close friendship with painter Francis Picabia, whom Duchamp felt ‘had more intelligence than most of our contemporaries.’ In addition, Keneas remarked, the two ‘shared each other's sense of iconoclastic wit and absurd humor.’ Together with writer Apollinaire they were formulating a new concept of art that prefigured the Dada movement; it mocked accepted artistic norms and sought to de-emphasize the artist's hand by using chance and mechanical methods” (“Marcel Duchamp”).
Works Cited
“Bicycle Wheel”. 3 April 2009..
Brief description on the readymade, when it was made.
Collings, Matthew. "Anything Goes.(Arts; Exhibition)(Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Man Ray)." Time International (Europe Edition) 171.10 (March 10, 2008): 49. Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 March 2009..
Article on Duchamp, Picabia, and Man Ray. Associated them with the Dada and Surrealism movement. Art can be anything.
Lewis, Ben. “Who's the Dada? The joke's on us: Francis Picabia's Femmes Au Bull Dog (1940-42), above; Untitled (Ferns) by Man Ray (1923), left, and Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), far left.” The Evening Standard (London, England), Feb 21, 2008 p43. InfoTrac. Boston Public Library.
Article on the artist’s anti-art movement and puns through art.
Liukkonen, Petri. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). 12 March 2009.
The site was about Marcel Duchamp entire life, his career as an artist and the end of his career. It spoke about and why Duchamp's urinal (“The Fountain”) was voted by art experts that it’s the most influential artwork of the 20th century.
"Marcel Duchamp." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 47. Gale Group, 2003. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.
Brief article on Duchamp’s artwork. Lists most of his pieces with brief descriptions.
“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968).” Bio: True Story. 12 March 2009..
Biography on Marcel Duchamp’s life
Sylvester, David. “Marcel Duchamp”. Writers on Artists. New York: DK Publishing, Inc., 2001.Article on Marcel Duchamp, talks about his contempories and where/who he got theories from
Mount, Nick. "The return of beauty." Queen's Quarterly 115.2 (Summer 2008): 168(18). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 2 March 2009. http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itx/start.do?prodId=EAIM.
Speaks of the simulated beauty that art creates. How Duchamp tries to abolished it through his artwork.
Savigneau, Josiane. "Duchamp, Marcel Marcel Duchamp.(Marcel Duchamp: La vie a credit)(Brief article)(Book review)." Biography 30.2 (Spring 2007): 261(1). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 March 2009..
“Largely self-taught” (“Marcel Duchamp”), well-off playing billiards than attending classes Duchamp left the Academie Julian after his first year (“Marcel Duchamp”). Through his brothers, Duchamp “made a meager living” (“Marcel Duchamp”) by “selling cartoons for publication in Parisian magazines, including “Le Lire” and “Le Courier Francais” (“Marcel Duchamp”). Through 1913 and 1914 “Duchamp worked as a librarian” (“Marcel Duchamp”). Finding Paris intolerable, Duchamp went to New York (Liukkonen, par. 6).Duchamp's nihilistic comment on the whole history of the Western art and art museums became an icon of the Dada movement (Liukkonen par. 8). “He was outside artistic tradition not only in shunning repetition but also in not attempting a prolific output or frequent exhibition of his work. In the Fauvist style Marcel painted some of his best early work three or four years after the Fauvist movement itself had died away. In 1911, Duchamp’s painting began to show a trace of Cubism (“Marcel Duchamp” par. 3). “Between 1913 and 1923” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 8) “a stroke of genius led him to a discovery of great importance in contemporary art, the so-called ready-made. In 1913 he produced the “Bicycle Wheel,” which was simply an ordinary bicycle wheel” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 9). “He was then, and remained, an artist whose works would have been sought after but who was content to distribute them free among his friends or to sell them for intentionally small amounts” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 10). “He lived more than ever in semiretirement, content with chess and with producing, as the spirit moved him, some strange and unexpected object” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 15). “This contemplative life was interrupted in about 1960, when the rising generation of American artists realized that Duchamp had found answers for many of their problems. Suddenly tributes came to him from all over the world” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 16). “However, his works were ignored by the public for the greater part of his life. Until 1960 only such avant-garde groups as the Surrealists claimed that he was important, while to “official” art circles and sophisticated critics he appeared to be merely an eccentric and something of a failure” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 17). “He was more than 70 years old when he emerged in the United States as the secret master whose entirely new attitude toward art and society, far from being negative or nihilistic, had led the way to Pop art, Op art, and many of the other movements embraced by younger artists everywhere. Not only did he change the visual arts but he also changed the mind of the artist” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968)” par. 17). “Duchamp also invented himself a female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy (Eros that’s Life), who appeared in his friends works. Man Ray photographed Rrose Sélavy on several occasions. Under her name Duchamp published in 1939 a book of puns and word games” (Liukkonen, par.10) “In 1927 Duchamp married Lyndie Sarazine-Levassor, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. They divorced in 1928” (Liukkonen, par. 12). “After living for a long time as a bachelor, Duchamp married in 1954 Alexina Sattler Matisse (1906-1995). Next year he became an American citizen. In secret, known only to his wife, he had started to develop an assemblage after World War II, “Etant Donnés”, his visual testament. The exterior consists of an old wooden door, closed, with two peepholes. Through them can be seen a naked girl without pubic hair. In the background is a landscape. Duchamp died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on October 2, 1968. He was buried in Rouen” (Liukkonen, par. 15).
Duchamp, was the inventor of the readymade. He was a prankster “of modernism, who mocked all around and turned jokes, like dressing up in drag” (Lewis, par. 2-4). He created an idea that anything can be art (Collings 49). “Duchamp refused to produce art for the pleasure of a society” (Mount 168(18)). Duchamp refused “to accept the standards of the traditional art community” (“Marcel Duchamp”) he made art “for more theoretical and even humorous concerns” (“Marcel Duchamp”). Duchamp is professed “as iconoclastic, anarchistic and nihilistic” (“Marcel Duchamp”). “Still, after only seventeen years of creating art, Duchamp turned his back on painting, spending the second half of his life playing chess. Quitting art was as much of a statement for Duchamp as his artwork itself had been. His was an uncompromising life” (“Marcel Duchamp”). Duchamp’s nihilism is shown through his pieces. Duchamp’s artwork is to be viewed intellectually. It makes you think hard about what it’s trying to say. You question it, is this art? His artwork also questions whether art should be beautiful or authentic. His “Fountain” is a classic example. The “Fountain” is an early 1900’s porcelain urinal. It’s white and has a signed “R. Mutt 1917” in black ink. This piece is a black and white photograph of the urinal. Many people do not see this as art. Duchamp purposely wanted people to think this. He wanted to challenge what art really is. Is art supposed to be beautiful, is it supposed to be pleasing, agreeable? Duchamp thinks the exact opposite, he thinks art should be provoking you, it should be strange and humorous. “Later in his life Duchamp himself commented on the name of the alter ego he created for this work: 'Mutt' comes from Mott Works, the name of a large sanitary equipment manufacturer. But Mott was too close so I altered it to Mutt, after the daily cartoon strip ‘Mutt and Jeff‘. But not even that much, just R. MUTT. If you separate the capital and lowercase letters we get ‘R.M’ and ‘utt‘, ‘R.M’ would stand for ‘Readymade’ which is the fountain itself and ‘utt’ when read out loud sounds like ‘eut été’ in French (much like Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q.). Together it means ‘Readymade once was, 1917‘. Word games like this are common in Marcel Duchamp's work” (“Fountain (Duchamp)”, par. 6). Not only in his piece but also in the title, Duchamp is challenging the viewer. Another way Duchamp challenges and provokes art, is by taking something that is not considered art at all and turning into art. It goes back to Picasso, who did not only question the “making what is low and rejected into art; it is also a question of bringing dead matter to life” (Sylvester 103). Duchamp took something inanimate and made it something lively, by turning it into art. The provocation that it brings to the viewer’s mind is what brings it to life. Even though, this piece of art is now considered one of the most influential pieces of modern art, it was rejected by the Society of Independent Artists. The board members had debated whether it was art or not. Submitting the artwork under another name, Duchamp soon resigned from the board of the Society of Independent Artists, after the “Fountain” was rejected. Another readymade by Duchamp was the “Bicycle Wheel”. The “Bicycle Wheel” is a bicycle wheel mounted upside down on a stool. This is another piece that challenges the, what is constituted as art. The wheel is black and the stool looks like it is wooden. This readymade is considered Duchamp’s first readymade, even though it was made before the term “readymade” was established. Duchamp has said that it has “’little to do with the idea of the Readymade. Rather it had more to do with the idea of chance. In a way, it was simply letting things go by themselves and having a sort of created atmosphere in a studio, an apartment where you live. Probably, to help your ideas come out of your head. To set the wheel turning was very soothing, very comforting, a sort of opening of avenues on other things than material life of every day. I liked the idea of having a bicycle wheel in my studio. I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoyed looking at the flames dancing in a fireplace. It was like having a fireplace in my studio, the movement of the wheel reminded me of the movement of flames‘” (“Bicycle Wheel”, par. 1). Seems to be that, the purpose of the “Bicycle Wheel” was to help unblocked Duchamp’s mind, to sooth him. One wonders why he submitted it as a piece of artwork. It has that provocation of what it really is and disputed the constitution of art, but why was submit something that seems so personal? Maybe that was the purpose of it, to not only mocks and provoke, but also to comforts and sooth. This readymade is a paradox within its-self. Not only does it have the nihilism in it, but it also does what Duchamp is trying to not do. Which is, that in a way it pleases society. It brings pleasure to society. Duchamp undoes what his artwork is supposed to do. It’s not supposed to please society, it’s supposed to displease society, and show that anything dead or ugly is equally art as something appealing and beautiful. Duchamp mocks beauty in art, humorous in “L.H.O.O.Q.”. Through his own version of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”. It is a replica of the “Mona Lisa” but with an added moustache and goatee in black ink. “L.H.O.O.Q.” in French is elle a chaud au cul, which translated means she has a hot ass. Clearly Duchamp meant for this to be humorous. In his version of the “Mona Lisa”, Duchamp “walked away from a definition of art that had ruled the West for over 2,000 years: no more beautiful imitations. Art should be a concept, not a copy. It should disturb, not please. Most important, it should not be beautiful” (Mount 168(18)). This piece by Duchamp is one of the most famous acts of degrading art. Duchamp would have been very content knowing this. He made it disturbing, not pleasing. It perfectly demonstrated what Duchamp wanted to do. He took an artificial beauty and turned it into what he thought art should be. Art should agitate, should perturb you.
He also does this in his “Paradise”. Instead of the simulated beauty that art is to be, Duchamp painted the beauty of the nude human body. In the painting, there is a man and a woman and they are nude. The man is standing and has his hands covering his male organ. It seems that he is looking straight ahead and has an apathetic look on his face. He neither looks pleased or displeased. His skin is palely white but is accented with a golden yellow, he is much lighter than the woman. He seems to have brown hair and brown eyes. The woman is sitting down and she is much thicker than the man. Her skin is golden with red accents. She is looking the opposite way of the man and seems to be looking at something contently. Her hair has purple in it, but is brown, also her eyes are brown but seem to be outlined with red. She is sitting on her right hand and has her left arm over her stomach. Her left leg is on the ground while her right leg is upright. The man and woman seem to be in a garden or country setting with trees in the background. The rest of the painting is in warm colors: brown, gold, yellow, red. In this painting Duchamp is not only mocking the idea of what beauty is, he is also making a mockery of woman. When humans are at their most natural state, they are at true beauty. That natural state is when they are nude. What Duchamp may be saying is that you’re not really beautiful when you have all this stuff on you. You’re not truly beautiful wearing fashionable clothes or make-up, when you’re done up. Nudity is the realest, truest beauty. It’s the curves and forms of your body that’s beautiful. Here is his nihilism, when you are completely and utterly material less, is when you are beautiful. Not when you’re completely covered with materials. He demolishes the institution of beauty as he does art. He finds that the opposite of what is “supposed to be” actually is what it’s supposed to be. To him, everyone has it wrong, everyone has it backwards. Art isn’t just on the surface; it’s supposed to move you, make you question, make you think. “Paradise” exhibits mockery of woman. It can be perceived that the man in the painting is more civilized then the woman. More respectful, more aware. The man is standing there, well put and covering his male organ, while the woman is on the ground, with her legs opened and she is not covering her chest. The woman is crude. It’s like she just there, she serves no purpose, the man seems to not even acknowledge her presence. Along with Picabia and Man Ray, Duchamp was considered a “playboy, whose treatment of women both in life and art was irredeemably patriarchal” (Lewis 43). Duchamp didn’t respect woman, he thought that they were disposable. He illustrated that in his paintings and life. Marcel Duchamp was a prankster and a playboy, but more importantly he became a godfather to conceptual art. He “was allergic to work. To society too. Paradoxically he has become an icon of contemporary art and remains an enigma” (Savigneau 261). Through his on and off relationship with art, Duchamp created artwork that would mock, provoke, and humor its viewers. He mocked and humored with “L.H.O.O.Q.” and provoked the constitutions of art with the “Fountain”. “Duchamp's work continued to attract both praise and criticism, and by late 1913 he was searching for greater freedom of artistic expression than that allowed by either cubism or futurism. He had at this time developed a close friendship with painter Francis Picabia, whom Duchamp felt ‘had more intelligence than most of our contemporaries.’ In addition, Keneas remarked, the two ‘shared each other's sense of iconoclastic wit and absurd humor.’ Together with writer Apollinaire they were formulating a new concept of art that prefigured the Dada movement; it mocked accepted artistic norms and sought to de-emphasize the artist's hand by using chance and mechanical methods” (“Marcel Duchamp”).
Works Cited
“Bicycle Wheel”. 3 April 2009.
Brief description on the readymade, when it was made.
Collings, Matthew. "Anything Goes.(Arts; Exhibition)(Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Man Ray)." Time International (Europe Edition) 171.10 (March 10, 2008): 49. Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 March 2009.
Article on Duchamp, Picabia, and Man Ray. Associated them with the Dada and Surrealism movement. Art can be anything.
Lewis, Ben. “Who's the Dada? The joke's on us: Francis Picabia's Femmes Au Bull Dog (1940-42), above; Untitled (Ferns) by Man Ray (1923), left, and Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), far left.” The Evening Standard (London, England), Feb 21, 2008 p43. InfoTrac. Boston Public Library.
Article on the artist’s anti-art movement and puns through art.
Liukkonen, Petri. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). 12 March 2009.
The site was about Marcel Duchamp entire life, his career as an artist and the end of his career. It spoke about and why Duchamp's urinal (“The Fountain”) was voted by art experts that it’s the most influential artwork of the 20th century.
"Marcel Duchamp." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 47. Gale Group, 2003. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.
Brief article on Duchamp’s artwork. Lists most of his pieces with brief descriptions.
“Marcel Duchamp Biography (1887-1968).” Bio: True Story. 12 March 2009.
Biography on Marcel Duchamp’s life
Sylvester, David. “Marcel Duchamp”. Writers on Artists. New York: DK Publishing, Inc., 2001.Article on Marcel Duchamp, talks about his contempories and where/who he got theories from
Mount, Nick. "The return of beauty." Queen's Quarterly 115.2 (Summer 2008): 168(18). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 2 March 2009. http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itx/start.do?prodId=EAIM.
Speaks of the simulated beauty that art creates. How Duchamp tries to abolished it through his artwork.
Savigneau, Josiane. "Duchamp, Marcel Marcel Duchamp.(Marcel Duchamp: La vie a credit)(Brief article)(Book review)." Biography 30.2 (Spring 2007): 261(1). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Boston Public Library. 1 March 2009.
proposal letter
Dear Mr. Gallagher,
I chose Marcel Duchamp as the contemporary artist for my research paper. One piece by Duchamp that interests me is “L.H.O.O.Q”. This piece is the “Mona Lisa” with a mustache and goatee. I find this piece interesting because it’s called art but to others it’s degrading a greater piece of art. I like the conflict that Duchamp created by creating this piece of art. I like how Duchamp makes others question his art. Many debate if Duchamp’s “Fountain” is actual art; it is a picture of a urinal. I would like to research what movements he was in and what affected his art.
Information:
· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp
· http://www.marcelduchamp.net/
· http://www.beatmuseum.org/duchamp/marcelduchamp.html
· http://www.answers.com/topic/marcel-duchamp
· http://members.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/duchamp.html
· http://understandingduchamp.com/
· http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/duchamp.htm
· http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/duch/hd_duch.htm
· “Dictionary of the Arts”
· “Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists”
An idea for my thesis would be: how did living in post-WWI affect his work? Another would be Surrealism and Duchamp; explain their relationship and his work. I want to research his life and how he lived, whether he paints what he feels or paints what he imagines.
I chose Marcel Duchamp as the contemporary artist for my research paper. One piece by Duchamp that interests me is “L.H.O.O.Q”. This piece is the “Mona Lisa” with a mustache and goatee. I find this piece interesting because it’s called art but to others it’s degrading a greater piece of art. I like the conflict that Duchamp created by creating this piece of art. I like how Duchamp makes others question his art. Many debate if Duchamp’s “Fountain” is actual art; it is a picture of a urinal. I would like to research what movements he was in and what affected his art.
Information:
· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp
· http://www.marcelduchamp.net/
· http://www.beatmuseum.org/duchamp/marcelduchamp.html
· http://www.answers.com/topic/marcel-duchamp
· http://members.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/duchamp.html
· http://understandingduchamp.com/
· http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/duchamp.htm
· http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/duch/hd_duch.htm
· “Dictionary of the Arts”
· “Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists”
An idea for my thesis would be: how did living in post-WWI affect his work? Another would be Surrealism and Duchamp; explain their relationship and his work. I want to research his life and how he lived, whether he paints what he feels or paints what he imagines.
meta for filler page
I chose to rewrite/rearrange this page because I think that the author throughout the book lacks displaying her feelings. Erin holds a lot of her feeling in. She has never actual said what she has ever thought and in this situation I think that she should have been more appalled at Noelene’s actions and decisions. Also I personally think that it’s very despicable that someone would deny some one an object with so much sentimental value because they decorated their living space around it. It seems that the people that seemed so close to Erin’s parents have become so materialistic and their character seemed to drop to the lowest levels.
madame bovary
Gustave Flaubert, uses the country setting establish values within his novel, Madame Bovary. In Madame Bovary, the country is a place of balance and chastity as to the city setting which is squalor and immodesty. This is shown through the changes in Emma’s character. The country setting affects the whole novel by
“Emma would, on the contrary, have preferred to have a midnight wedding with torches, but old Rouault could not understand such an idea. So there was a wedding at which forty-three persons were present, at which they remained sixteen hours at table, began again the next day, and to some extent on the days following” (pp.27).” “the brick front was just in a line with the street, or rather the road…on the right was the one apartment, that was both dining and sitting room…On the other side of the passage was Charles’ consulting-room, a little room about six paces wide, with a table, three chairs, and an office-chair…then, opening on the yard, where the stable was, came a large dilapidated room with a stove, now used as a wood-house, cellar, and pantry…the garden, longer that wide, ran between two mud walls with espaliered apricots, to a hawthorn hedge that separated it from the field…the first room was not furnished, but in the second…was a mahogany bedstead in an alcove with red drapery.” (pp.33-34) “before marriage she thought herself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.”(pp.35) “it was a substantial-looking farm. In the stables, over the top of the open doors, one could see great cart-horses quietly feeding from the new racks. The sheepfold was long, the barn was high, with walls smooth as your hand…the courtyard sloped upwards, planted with trees set out symmetrically, and the chattering noise of the flock of geese was heard near the pond.” (pp. 17) “the flat country stretched as far as the eye could see, and the tufts of trees round the farms at long intervals seemed like dark violets stains on the vast grey surface, that on the horizon faded into the gloom of the sky.” (pp.17) “far from being bored at first a the convent, she took pleasure in the society of the good sisters, who, to amuse her, took her to the chapel, which one entered from the refectory by a long corridor.” (pp. 36)
“Emma would, on the contrary, have preferred to have a midnight wedding with torches, but old Rouault could not understand such an idea. So there was a wedding at which forty-three persons were present, at which they remained sixteen hours at table, began again the next day, and to some extent on the days following” (pp.27).” “the brick front was just in a line with the street, or rather the road…on the right was the one apartment, that was both dining and sitting room…On the other side of the passage was Charles’ consulting-room, a little room about six paces wide, with a table, three chairs, and an office-chair…then, opening on the yard, where the stable was, came a large dilapidated room with a stove, now used as a wood-house, cellar, and pantry…the garden, longer that wide, ran between two mud walls with espaliered apricots, to a hawthorn hedge that separated it from the field…the first room was not furnished, but in the second…was a mahogany bedstead in an alcove with red drapery.” (pp.33-34) “before marriage she thought herself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.”(pp.35) “it was a substantial-looking farm. In the stables, over the top of the open doors, one could see great cart-horses quietly feeding from the new racks. The sheepfold was long, the barn was high, with walls smooth as your hand…the courtyard sloped upwards, planted with trees set out symmetrically, and the chattering noise of the flock of geese was heard near the pond.” (pp. 17) “the flat country stretched as far as the eye could see, and the tufts of trees round the farms at long intervals seemed like dark violets stains on the vast grey surface, that on the horizon faded into the gloom of the sky.” (pp.17) “far from being bored at first a the convent, she took pleasure in the society of the good sisters, who, to amuse her, took her to the chapel, which one entered from the refectory by a long corridor.” (pp. 36)
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{Now that we have a new house, we decide its time to get some of Mum and Dad’s furniture back. But when Tracy calls Noelene, who’s been storing Mum’s prized dining room set, she actually refuses to part with it. I can’t believe it, so when Tracy, Chris and Trent are out, I call Noelene myself.
“Our mother loved that dining set and glass cabinet,” I tell my mother’s old friend. “We really can’t give them up now,” she says. I can’t believe her nerve.
A couple days later I work up the courage to drive to Noelene’s. I hate to do it, but it seems like my only option. I feel pretty certain that if Noelene sees me in person, she won’t be able to say no.
I’m standing in her dining room staring at our table and chairs.}*
“Look, Erin, I’m sorry, but we’ve designed our whole living room around these pieces,” “But you promised,” I blurt out. I am so angry. “I’m sorry. No.” “What do you mean no?” I say fuming. “Mum would be crushed, you used to laugh with her, and we used to come here for family barbecues. Mum’s friendship with you meant a lot. They hold so many memories for us.” “Again, I’m sorry, but no” Noelene explains with a shrug. “How can you do this, Noelene?” “How can you stand there denying Tracy, Trent and me some thing so precious, because you designed your living space around it?” Noelene shakes her head and walks toward the door. I can’t believe her.
{I’m seventeen and powerless to do anything else.
And that’s that.}*
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I chose to rewrite this page because I think that she should have been more appalled at Noelene and her actions. I completely find it despicable that a person would deny someone an object with so much sentimental value. I find that the people that were so close to Erin’s parents when they were alive now seem so materialistic. They seem to care less and less about Erin and her family, then before when her parents were alive.
“Our mother loved that dining set and glass cabinet,” I tell my mother’s old friend. “We really can’t give them up now,” she says. I can’t believe her nerve.
A couple days later I work up the courage to drive to Noelene’s. I hate to do it, but it seems like my only option. I feel pretty certain that if Noelene sees me in person, she won’t be able to say no.
I’m standing in her dining room staring at our table and chairs.}*
“Look, Erin, I’m sorry, but we’ve designed our whole living room around these pieces,” “But you promised,” I blurt out. I am so angry. “I’m sorry. No.” “What do you mean no?” I say fuming. “Mum would be crushed, you used to laugh with her, and we used to come here for family barbecues. Mum’s friendship with you meant a lot. They hold so many memories for us.” “Again, I’m sorry, but no” Noelene explains with a shrug. “How can you do this, Noelene?” “How can you stand there denying Tracy, Trent and me some thing so precious, because you designed your living space around it?” Noelene shakes her head and walks toward the door. I can’t believe her.
{I’m seventeen and powerless to do anything else.
And that’s that.}*
{….}* Previous information for reader to understand passage
I chose to rewrite this page because I think that she should have been more appalled at Noelene and her actions. I completely find it despicable that a person would deny someone an object with so much sentimental value. I find that the people that were so close to Erin’s parents when they were alive now seem so materialistic. They seem to care less and less about Erin and her family, then before when her parents were alive.
A Doll's House Act 1
My opinion of the clip of act 1 from “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen is that the director has made their house seem rich; he/she has played it up to more than what it seems like in the play. “A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly.” In the play the house seems very plain. The way that the actors dressed was accurate to the time setting, which is in the 1800s. Helmer is wearing a three piece suit, and Nora has on a dress from that time. Even though the play was written in Norway, I almost expected the set would be like a house in Norway, but it looks more like a house in England.
I think that Nora didn’t seems so needy like in the play, yes, it shows her “affection” for money, but I don’t think that its up to par. “You might give me money, Torvald. Only as much as you can afford; and then one of these days I will buy something with it….Oh do! dear Torvald; please, please do! Then I will wrap it up in beautiful gilt paper and hang it on the Christmas tree. Wouldn’t that be fun?” in the clip Nora doesn’t seem so desperate and needy for the money. I think that the movie director/producer who ever did portray Nora’s childish aspect very well. She acts like she really is this little thing, “…my little lark…,…my little squirrel….,…my dear little Nora…”
In the clip, Helmer seems more teasing rather than putting her down. It didn’t seem like he worried at all. Helmer portrayed in the movie seemed like nothing compared to how he was portrayed in the play. In the play Helmer is very much in love with Nora and cares deeply about what would happen if he died. He worries much about what her situation would be. “…Suppose, now, that I borrowed fifty pounds to-day, and you spent it all in the Christmas week, and then new year’s Eve a slate fell on my head and killed me, and--” With him being worried he wants no debts and then economic worries, so he tries to tell Nora that “But, seriously, Nora, you know what I think about that. No debt, no borrowing. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.”
I think that Nora didn’t seems so needy like in the play, yes, it shows her “affection” for money, but I don’t think that its up to par. “You might give me money, Torvald. Only as much as you can afford; and then one of these days I will buy something with it….Oh do! dear Torvald; please, please do! Then I will wrap it up in beautiful gilt paper and hang it on the Christmas tree. Wouldn’t that be fun?” in the clip Nora doesn’t seem so desperate and needy for the money. I think that the movie director/producer who ever did portray Nora’s childish aspect very well. She acts like she really is this little thing, “…my little lark…,…my little squirrel….,…my dear little Nora…”
In the clip, Helmer seems more teasing rather than putting her down. It didn’t seem like he worried at all. Helmer portrayed in the movie seemed like nothing compared to how he was portrayed in the play. In the play Helmer is very much in love with Nora and cares deeply about what would happen if he died. He worries much about what her situation would be. “…Suppose, now, that I borrowed fifty pounds to-day, and you spent it all in the Christmas week, and then new year’s Eve a slate fell on my head and killed me, and--” With him being worried he wants no debts and then economic worries, so he tries to tell Nora that “But, seriously, Nora, you know what I think about that. No debt, no borrowing. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.”
marcel duchamp
marcel duchamp
I have chosen marcel duchamp. I like the humor that he brought to "The Mona Lisa", he change the title to "She Has A Hot Ass". He also added a mustache and goatee
I have chosen marcel duchamp. I like the humor that he brought to "The Mona Lisa", he change the title to "She Has A Hot Ass". He also added a mustache and goatee
Act 1.2 Hamlet
Act 1:2 Hamlet is alone in the throne room and is upset at his mother for marrying his Uncle Claudius and also being told by both his mother and uncle that he should not grieve after his father anymore. In Hamlet’s soliloquy, we discovered that it has only been two months since his father King Hamlet has died. “But two months dead--nay, not so much, not two” (line 142). “…ere those shoes were old with which she followed my poor father‘s body, like Niobe, all tears…But break. My heart, for I must hold my tongue” (lines 151-164). In these lines, Hamlet is in complete distress over his mother marrying her uncle only a month after his father died. In lines 151-152, Hamlet describes his mother like Niobe; daughter of Tantalus, whose children were killed and was turned to stone where she wept for their loss; as she walked behind her late husband’s body. Hamlet also compares his mother to a beast, saying that a beast would have mourned longer than she has, in lines 154 and 155. He is bewildered by how she could marry her late husband’s brother, who is nothing like King Hamlet. “…My father‘s brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules” (lines 157-158). “So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr…” (lines 143-144). Here Hamlet juxtaposes King Hamlet and Claudius, King Hamlet as a sun god and Claudius as a creature who is part human, part horse and part goat. Since Claudius is now king, what is a another crack to Hamlet’s already shattered heart, is that Hamlet cannot say anything against King Claudius and his mother, Queen Gertrude.
Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet
Kenneth Branagh’s portrayal of Hamlet, captures Hamlet’s anger and distress that is brought on by King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. The anger is shown when he screams “and yet, within a month (let me not think on ‘t; frailty, thy name is woman!)” (lines 154-155). In my opinion, Branagh’s portrayal was too sane. Hamlet is initially alone and he’s talking to himself, he’s expressing how he feels and he is searching through his mind; trying to figure out how his mother could marry his uncle. There was definitely emotion in the portrayal, but the essence of someone who bewildered out of his mind was not there. I liked how Branagh was wearing black, it showed that he was still in mourning of his father King Hamlet. Hamlet wearing black not only showed mourning but it made Hamlet stand out in the set, which was mostly white.
Laurence Olivier as Hamlet
I liked how the soliloquy was voiced over to show that Hamlet was thinking, instead of saying it out loud like Branagh. I think doing that showed how delusional hamlet was. The voice over exaggerated Hamlet’s distress and bewilderedness. Oliver’s use of facial expressions and body languge also showed the amount of emotion in the scene. I did not like how it was in black and white. I think that it had no great effect on the scene, and just showed that when this was made it was in the period when there was no color and that technology was not established yet.
In my opinion, the best interpretation of Hamlet’s soliloquy was by Laurence Olivier. The direction in which the scene was led, emphasized the duress and mental suffering that Hamlet was going through. The voice over by Olivier made it so that, Hamlet was saying everything in his mind, he was talking to himself. Also that, he only said about five words out loud really emphasized that duress that Hamlet was going through.
Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet
Kenneth Branagh’s portrayal of Hamlet, captures Hamlet’s anger and distress that is brought on by King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. The anger is shown when he screams “and yet, within a month (let me not think on ‘t; frailty, thy name is woman!)” (lines 154-155). In my opinion, Branagh’s portrayal was too sane. Hamlet is initially alone and he’s talking to himself, he’s expressing how he feels and he is searching through his mind; trying to figure out how his mother could marry his uncle. There was definitely emotion in the portrayal, but the essence of someone who bewildered out of his mind was not there. I liked how Branagh was wearing black, it showed that he was still in mourning of his father King Hamlet. Hamlet wearing black not only showed mourning but it made Hamlet stand out in the set, which was mostly white.
Laurence Olivier as Hamlet
I liked how the soliloquy was voiced over to show that Hamlet was thinking, instead of saying it out loud like Branagh. I think doing that showed how delusional hamlet was. The voice over exaggerated Hamlet’s distress and bewilderedness. Oliver’s use of facial expressions and body languge also showed the amount of emotion in the scene. I did not like how it was in black and white. I think that it had no great effect on the scene, and just showed that when this was made it was in the period when there was no color and that technology was not established yet.
In my opinion, the best interpretation of Hamlet’s soliloquy was by Laurence Olivier. The direction in which the scene was led, emphasized the duress and mental suffering that Hamlet was going through. The voice over by Olivier made it so that, Hamlet was saying everything in his mind, he was talking to himself. Also that, he only said about five words out loud really emphasized that duress that Hamlet was going through.
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