its surrealism!

 

In 1912, Duchamp painted his famous Nude Descending A Staircase, which caused a scandal at the 1913 ARMORY SHOW in New York City. In the same year he developed, with Francis PICABIA and Guillaume APOLLINAIRE, the radical and ironic ideas that independently prefigured the official founding of Dada in 1916 in Zurich. Dada aimed at departure from the physical aspect of painting and emphases in ideas as the chief means of artistic expression.



In 1915, Duchamp moved to New York City, where he was befriended by Louise and Walter Arensberg and their circle of artists and poets, which constituted New York Dada. That same year he began his major work, The Large Glass, or The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915-23), a construction of wire and painted foil fitted between plates of transparent glass. In 1918 he completed his last major painting, Tu m', a huge oil and graphite on canvas, a unique combination of real and painted objects and illusionistic and flat space. Following his maxim never to repeat himself, Duchamp "stopped" painting (1923) after 20 works and devoted himself largely to the game of chess.

 

yes i'm going to stop painting and become a garden gnome

 

I hear that's a strenuous gig. Are you sure you're up for it?

 

i call it "garden gnomes invade france"

 

mike 3 just did this one, we'll call it "loins and cheese"

 

It's a volcano! Those crazy gnomes, what will they be up to next?