Duchamp is the best

I think Duchamp is the best artist of all times. In the history of art there is a before and after Duchamp. Because he is the first to point out that art is anything that the artist "points" as artistic. He inaugurates a new relationship between art and life: It makes getting out of their natural context to place an object in one new. That is the essence of their Readymades.

Duchamp was born in 1887, in France. His early works are cubist and futurist. This period stands out his "Nude Descending a Staircase", 1914. Work was exhibited in the U.S., where it caused uproar in the American art scene, then a very conservative. But his works are truly revolutionary is it’s readymade, the first, "Bicycle Wheel on Stool" dates from 1918. While the most controversial was "Fountain", 1917

Duchamp did not make up images, he make up ideas. For that he is the father of the conceptual art. And also, he participated in art movements like Cubism (“Section of gold”), Dadá, in his first period and then he take part of the Surrealism Movement, when he lives in New York, between 1942 at his dead in 1968.

In Dada period he made the happening “Tonsure” of 1919 and many performance like “Rrose Sélavy” (1921, 24-25), “Belle Haleine” (1921) and “Relache” performance made in 1924 in which acts of Adam, with actress Bronja Perlmutter as Eve.

While, in his second period in New York he was a pioneer in other art styles like a kinetic art, with art pieces like “Rotoreliefs” and “Rotative Demi-Sphere and installation, with his staging “Etant donnés” (1946-66), his master piece.

Concluding, I think, in Duchamp and Picasso can find the raw material of all contemporary art. But I don’t speak about Picasso because I prefer transgressor style of Duchamp.