The Art Killer

Today I would like to write about one of my favorite artist; favorite conceptually but not aesthetically, conceptual because he killed the art. Later tell you why I believe that.

The name of this artist murderer is Marcel Duchamp. He was born into a family with money and with a lot of art around. But even his conservative environment he trained has an artist in a vanguard context. At twenty he began his first steps in art publishing caricatures and cartoons in newspapers, this defines his style full of irony. But, for me, the most important event that gave us Duchamp was the creation of the famous “ready-made”. A ready-made consist in an object of everyday life, an object created industrially in series which is presented as a work of art. Interested.

Now the conflict is: Art is what is called art, then anything can be art.

One of the first ready-made was the “Fontaine”, consists of a urinal industrial manufacturing and massive, which the artist signed with a nickname and presented on a pedestal as a work of art.

Duchamp thus opens a semantic problem into crisis the aesthetic categories that determine what is art and what is not.

I like it because on the one hand kills art, but otherwise he opened a new way of relating to art: now is the public who gives meaning to the art object.