Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. 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 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art, and he had a seminal influence on the development of conceptual art. By the time of World War I he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (such as Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind.

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Marcel Duchamp was born on Thursday, 28 July 1887 in Blainville-Crevon, France. His full name at birth was Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp. He was best known as an artist. Duchamp's country of citizenship (nationality) was French. He died on Wednesday, 2 October 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France at the age of 81. For university, he studied at Académie Julian. His religion is listed as Atheist. His zodiac star sign was Leo.

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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp
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28 July 1887
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Blainville-Crevon, France
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2 October 1968
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Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
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Heart Failure
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Académie Julian
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