Life of an Artist: Marcel Duchamp
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The organizers of that exhibition asked his elder brothers to persuade him to withdraw the painting or to paint over its title then he took a taxi to the showroom and removed it from the exhibition. After this point in his life, he devoted much of his time to determine what constitutes art and who can decide it?
Duchamp tried to disprove the idea that an art piece is unique by using mass-produced, everyday items. As a result, art was redefined in a new, contentious way as an intellectual rather than a material exploration.
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