These three friends met in New York and formed an experimental and intellectual gang that broke away from the European anti-art Dada movement and expanded the idea that the form of a work of art had no more weight than the thought that went into it. This freethinking trio seemed intent on taking the very notions of creativity apart, replacing them bit-by-bit with machine components or industrial processes. Picabia painted emotions or people as pistons and steam engines, while Duchamp depicted his ideal 'Bride' of 1912 as a contraption of pumps and bellows. The American of the bunch, Man Ray, turned to photography, the latest and most mechanical of means; posing a female nude in harmony with the cogs of a huge iron printing press. (OW)
2 comments
saw this yesterday. It was interesting enough. I'm not expert of course. Those three sound like they had a great time. living fast in the south of france, painting and questioning everything. Out of the three i preferred the work of Man Ray (is that a cool name or what?). There was one picture of a woman's privates upon which my 3 year old remarked - daddy, the lady has a dirty bottom. I'm sure the artist would have approved.
cosi ce l'hai sul telefono ....