Sentences with phrase «urinal fountain»

Some, such as the «Readymades» of Marcel Duchamp including his infamous urinal Fountain, are later reproduced as museum quality replicas.

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Water with care Fountains that sound like dripping faucets, buzzing helicopters or urinals do not relax anyone, and neither does the strong smell of algae.

Context is crucial, particularly when viewing postmodern, ready - made art like Marcel Duchamp's famous installation, Fountain, which placed a urinal in an exhibition — much to the dismay of the artistic establishment.

One hundred years ago, Dada artist Marcel Duchamp forever changed the nature of art by anonymously submitting Fountain in 1917, a porcelain urinal signed «R. Mutt» as an artwork to the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York.

Marcel Duchamp's notorious «readymade» Fountain from 1917, which consisted of a standard urinal signed «R Mutt», went further by changing the way an everyday object was experienced and used, while testing the meanings, values and beliefs associated with art.

Some months ago the Greek food magnate Dimitris Daskalopoulos offered to lend the SNGMA works from his world - class collection of modern art, which begins with Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (aka the urinal) and continues through some of the grand names of the 20th century to Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic and Louise Bourgeois.

One hundred years ago, Dada artist Marcel Duchamp forever changed the nature of art when he submitted Fountain, a porcelain urinal signed R. Mutt for the Society of Independent Artists exhibition in New York (April 9, 1917).

Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings of photographs of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique of the use of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the aesthetic history of photography.

At the moment, I've hung up a photograph of Marcel Duchamp smoking a cigarette next to his urinal, Fountain (1917)-- except he's been cut out of the picture.

Like many artists in the second half of the 20th century, Steinbach took his cue from Marcel Duchamp's famous readymades: commonplace appliances like the famous urinal, Fountain, which with a swift change of venue and title, Duchamp elevated to art.

The Fountain was a urinal signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt, which shocked the art world in 1917.

Marcel Duchamp's urinal, Fountain, was exhibited in 1917.

One of the few historic works in his collection, Fountain is based on a urinal which Duchamp found, signed «R Mutt», and exhibited as a work of art in 1917.

In 1917 he famously exhibited the readymade urinal, Fountain, and signed it R. Mutt.

One of his more recent auction buys is Sherrie Levine's polished bronze, Fountain (Buddha), cast in 1996 from a different urinal to Duchamp's, for which he paid a double estimate $ 444,000 dollars in November 2008, just as the market was plunging into recession.

Emerging during the 1970s, Installation is associated with Conceptual art and can therefore be traced back to artists such as Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) and his modernist readymades such as his controversial urinal called Fountain (1917).

Dada artist Marcel Duchamp pioneered the idea of the readymade with his 1917 sculpture Fountain, which comprised a commercially produced urinal turned upside down and signed with Duchamp's pseudonym, R. Mutt.

Duchamp's Fountain, his upturned urinal signed R Mutt on the porcelain, may not seem to demand much in the way of an act of looking, but the initial shock of its appearance in an art gallery has profoundly affected the art of the past 80 - odd years.

Stoppard made a link between the work of such artists and Marcel Duchamp, who exhibited a urinal in 1917 under the title Fountain.

The most famous of Duchamp's readymades was Fountain (1917), a standard urinal - basin signed by the artist with the pseudonym «R.Mutt», and submitted for inclusion in the annual, un-juried exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York (which rejected it).

[29] While Marcel Duchamp caused uproar with his Fountain, which was not accepted as «art» at the time of its release due to Duchamp's attempt to mask the urinals true form, Nevelson took found objects and by spray painting them she disguised them of their actual use or meaning.

IN THE CREATION of his Urinal, 1984, Robert Gober referred more explicitly to Marcel Duchamp's readymades (specifically Fountain, 1917) than any other artist now creating sculpture derived from the everyday object.

Marcel Duchamp's iconic Fountain, 1917/64, a common urinal displayed on a plinth, is the starting point for exploring the way artists have used materials to look at the relationship between art and reality.

It is the centenary of Duchamp's The Fountain, the already - made, or «ready - made», urinal, which launched the 20th century's controversial obsession with conceptual art.

Her sculptural works include different bronze pieces and reproductions such as her 1991 Fountain — a bronze urinal, modeled after Marcel Duchamp's famous 1917 ready - made sculpture, and Constantin Brancusi's Newborn.

The most famous series of «found objects» were Duchamp's «readymades», an early form of junk art, including works like: Bicycle Wheel (1913), Bottle - Rack (1914), and Fountain (1917, a urinal) both in the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and In Advance of the Broken Arm (1915, Replica in Moderna Museet, Stockholm; a regular snow shovel on which Duchamp had painted its title, together with the words «from Marcel Duchamp 1915»).

When he signed a urinal and proclaimed it a work of art (Fountain, 1917, replica in Tate Gallery, London), he broke all boundaries, stating that it is the artistic idea that counts, and not the artistic craftsmanship.

Continuing in the traditions of Marcel Duchamp - whose urinal entitled «Fountain» (1917) was the first famous example of an ordinary object being made into a work of art - postmodernists have made a point of creating art from the most unlikely materials and scraps of rubbish.

NEW YORK — There are diverse references to art in the office of Philippe Vergne, the man who will be the next director of Los Angeles» Museum of Contemporary Art: a framed photo of artist Walter de Maria's «The Lightning Field,» a glossy picture of a work by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, and a porcelain toilet plunger, signed «R. Mutt,» a reference to Marcel Duchamp's 1917 «Fountain» — a porcelain urinal.

In 1917 he submitted the now famous Fountain, a urinal signed R. Mutt, to the Society of Independent Artists exhibition but they rejected the piece.

The idea was fully developed by the experimental French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968), who coined the term «readymades» shortly after the famous Armory Show (Spring 1913), to describe his signature style of «found object», as exemplified by his work entitled Fountain (1917), a standard porcelain urinal inscribed «R. Mutt 1917», which Duchamp submitted to the New York Society of Independent Artists exhibition (1917).

Duchamp, who became the darling of the radical Dada movement (founded by Tristan Tzara), created numerous challenging works such as his «readymades» series of found objects, of which the most celebrated was Fountain (1917), a standard urinal basin, which Duchamp submitted for inclusion in the annual, exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York.

In 2000, two Chinese performance artists attempted to urinate on Marcel Duchamp's urinal sculpture «Fountain.»

With his urinal, «Fountain», Duchamp had playfully asked this question half a century before; Danto argues that Warhol was a more political and also a religious artist.

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) One of the most innovative artists of the 20th century, painter / sculptor, member of Cubist Section d'Or group, noted for «readymades», along with works like Nude Descending a Staircase (1911 - 12), and the urinal entitled Fountain (1917).

• Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (bronze)(1913) by Umberto Boccioni • Fountain (urinal)(1917) by Marcel Duchamp • Bird in Space (bronze)(1923) by Constantin Brancusi • Merzbau (3 - D collage)(c.1930 - 43) by Kurt Schwitters • Pierced Form (1931) by Barbara Hepworth • Fur Cup (1936) by Meret Oppenheim • Presidential Portraits, Mount Rushmore (1941) Gutzon Borglum • Horse (bronze)(1950) by Marino Marini • Sky Cathedral (painted wood)(1958) by Louise Nevelson • Homage to New York (exploding construction)(1960) by Jean Tinguely • Untitled (Stack)(lacquered iron)(1967) by Donald Judd • A Thousand Years (installation)(1990) by Damien Hirst • Apple Core (1992) by Claes Oldenburg • Puppy (Plants, wood, earth)(1992) by Jeff Koons • My Bed (installation)(1999) by Tracey Emin • 227: The Lights Going On and Off (conceptual art)(2001) Martin Creed • Controller of the Universe (tools and wire)(2007) by Damian Ortega

Counterbalancing the perceived male - inclined heterodoxy is the strong addition of women artists at the top of their game: Sherrie Levine's Fountain (nicely complementing the museum's long - held Marcel Duchamp urinal), and commanding video pieces by Rachel Harrison and Ann Hamilton.

Troubleshoot / repair / replace plumbing fixtures: faucets and sinks, commodes and urinals, water fountains, garbage disposals.

Maintain and repair plumbing components including toilets, urinals, lavatories, flush valves, water fountains, sinks, drains, water heaters, piping, and sump pumps