Marcel duchamp brief biography of george washington

Marcel Duchamp

artistsculptor

The start of Marcel Duchamp's career can be counted from the early s when he contributed drawing cartoons for comic magazines while studying in Paris.

Under the influence of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, Duchamp produced boldly colored pictures that demonstrated a mastery of post impressionist color theory.

Marcel duchamp brief biography of george washington

In , he was called up for a compulsory military service in the 39th Infantry Regiment, serving for a printer in Rouen. Some of Duchamp's early works were featured at the Salon d'Automne and at the Salon des Indépendants the next year.

Continuing his experiments with such major contemporary trends in painting as Post-Impressionism, Fauvism (Portrait of the Artist’s Father, ), and Cubism, he seemed to have no habit of any of them. He was outside artistic tradition not only in shunning repetition but also in not attempting a prolific output or frequent exhibition of his wo