Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind. He is considered by many critics to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, and his output influenced the development of post–World War I Western art. He challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and rejected the emerging art market, through subversive anti-art. He famously dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain.
Known for
ActingBirthday
July 28, 1887Deathday
October 2, 1968Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
21Place of birth
Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], FranceAlso known as
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp![](/assets/default-profile-icon.jpg)
Cast credits
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Entr'acte
Chess player, black set![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/uN6XtnX0L8tC2WkvbqMhcz4RE3r.jpg)
Witch's Cradle
The artist![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/uiPbEWZ4KCGhRFSR69cmxh6UOMr.jpg)
Paris: The Luminous Years
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Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/FQuPszsHHWgHHEBUISrAUOJ6Qj.jpg)
8 X 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
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Lafayette, We Come
Wounded man![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/vzAm3N5pvNzaGYJyNfe1cTrXyHY.jpg)
Merce by Merce by Paik
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Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp
Himself![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/hJN8FvsNoXy9zxIg6nitTQ9pXEd.jpg)
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
Self - Artist (archive footage)![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/9I1HXDqTks5Q9Q5xbAGtjiJqvFN.jpg)
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Self![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/da27oUnBzBAuwJPIA0cHokIgXqs.jpg)
Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable
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Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess
Himself![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/mHlx2aRupB8ECi6oKCXjAYrJAMT.jpg)
Dadascope
Self / Voiceover![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xinNlfQpwgMpf5c8D53Ysm0S7Y5.jpg)
Europe After the Rain
Self![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/acOXd5RdemUXKOxGFSi9zKUM2pi.jpg)
The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
Self![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/c7CWt3eYlAIoetcPsTcGXMJFLh1.jpg)
Dada
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Grimace