Sentences with phrase «urinal signed»

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

Not exact matches

According to Rocket News 24's Meg Murphy, the urinals were installed at Shaanxi Normal University, where they were painted pink and adorned with giant signs asking the women to use the urinals instead of the stalls if possible, because it can save up to 160 tons of water a day.

Despite turns in comedic fare like The Big Lebowski and Thank You For Smoking, and despite the number of one - liners he drops in Road House («This place has a sign hangin» over the urinal that says, «Don't eat the big white mint»»), Sam Elliott hasn't played a lot of characters like Ron Dunn.

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.

Duchamp submitted the work, simply consisting of a porcelain urinal that's been placed on its back on a pedestal and signed «R. Mutt» by the artist, for an show at the Society of Independent Artists 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.

When Marcel Duchamp submitted his signed urinal to a group exhibition in 1917, he certainly couldn't have predicted that his decontextualized toilet would represent the dawn of an era in which everything and anything could be «art.»

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.

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).

Some historical examples of categorical risk will serve to clarify my term: the first cubist, futurist, constructivist paintings; Duchamp's signed urinal or his bicycle wheel; Pollock's drip paintings; Yves Klein's jump, but also Allan Kaprow's Happenings and Joseph Beuys» lectures.

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.

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.

LOS ANGELES — When Marcel Duchamp submitted his signed urinal to a group exhibition in 1917, he certainly couldn't have predicted that his decontextualized toilet would represent the dawn of an era in which everything and anything could be «art.»

And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas

It's been almost a hundred years since Marcel Duchamp signed «R. Mutt» on the side of a porcelain urinal.

Art is no longer connected to craft, and hasn't been since Duchamp exhibited a signed urinal in 1929.

The looming piece stands alongside the rest of the Capote's highly symbolic and allusive show, containing many years of works including a gilt bronze hammer and sickle, cast bronze hands spelling out «Freedom» in sign language, and silver prints laid in porcelain urinals.