Fountain

Question 0

What his family’s relationship to art?

Answer 0

His maternal grandfather was a painter and engraver, his two older brothers Jacques Villion and Raymond Duchamp-Villion were professional artists, his sister Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti also became an artist

Question 1

Where was Marcel Duchamp born?

Answer 1

In Upper Normandy

Question 2

When was Marcel Duchamp enrolled in the Academia Julian?

Answer 2

From 1904 to 1905

Question 3

What was Duchamp’s first important painting that demonstrates the influence of Cubism?

Answer 3

Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2

Question 4

How did Duchamp make an early living with art?

Answer 4

By creating cartoons and humorous drawings for popular journals in Paris

Question 5

How did Duchamp differ from Cubist works in his paintings?

Answer 5

He showed his figures in motion like in individual frames in movie

Question 6

In 1913 where did Duchamp show Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2?

Answer 6

At the Armory Show in New York City

Question 7

What was Duchamp’s goal for art?

Answer 7

To move away from the concept of art as an object of aesthetic pleasure and intended instead to put art back in the service of the mind

Question 8

What was Duchamp’s first ready-made?

Answer 8

The Bicycle Wheel

Question 9

Why was Duchamp unable to serve in the military during the Great War?

Answer 9

Because of a minor heart issue

Question 10

When did Duchamp immigrate to New York?

Answer 10

In 1915

Question 11

When did chess become a major preoccupation for Duchamp?

Answer 11

From the 1920’s

Question 12

When did Duchamp die?

Answer 12

In October 1968

Question 13

What did Duchamp use to make The Bicycle Wheel?

Answer 13

By combining a bicycle wheel and a stool

Question 14

What artists was closely with Duchamp and his Dada movement in New York?

Answer 14

Man Ray AND Francis Picabia

Question 15

What title in chess did Duchamp earn?

Answer 15

Chess master

Question 16

What was Fountain?

Answer 16

A porcelain urinal signed R. Mutt 1917

Question 17

How did Duchamp question the nature of a work of art?

Answer 17

By suggesting that the artists didn’t have to require any labor by the artists

Question 18

Who photographed Fountain in 1917?

Answer 18

Alfred Stieglitz

Question 19

What did Duchamp submit Fountain to?

Answer 19

The Society of Independent Artists

Question 20

What was the goal of the Society of Independent Artists?

Answer 20

To host exhibitions showcasing the work of avante-garde artists

Question 21

What journal was given over to the reactions to the Fountain?

Answer 21

Volume 2 of the Dada Journal entitled The Blind Man

Question 22

What were two grounds for refusing Mr. Mutt’s foundation?

Answer 22

Some contend it was immoral, vulgar. Others it was plagiarism, a plain piece of plumbing

Question 23

What was Duchamp known for by 1917?

Answer 23

His production of ready-makes

Question 24

Why did Duchamp resign from his position of director as the Society of Independent Artists in 1917?

Answer 24

Do to the outage that his work wasn’t shown

Question 25

What group do historians identify Duchamp?

Answer 25

The movement of Dada

Question 26

When did Dada originate and when?

Answer 26

In Zurich, Switzerland in 1916

Question 27

Who were some of the artists associated with Dada?

Answer 27

Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Hannah Hoech and Francis Picabia

Question 28

What was the reason for the name Dada?

Answer 28

The artists choose a word from the dictionary at random

Question 29

Why did the artists of Dada reject reason and order and what did they replace it with?

Answer 29

In reaction to the horrors of World War One they embraced irrationality and nonsense

Question 30

Why did many artists of the Dada movement live in Switzerland?

Answer 30

Because it was neutral during World War One

Question 31

Where else did many Dada artists flee to instead of Switzerland flee to?

Answer 31

New York

Question 32

What artists from the Dada movement went to New York instead of Switzerland during the war?

Answer 32

Duchamp and Picabia

Question 33

Who did Pacabia and Duchamp meet in New York?

Answer 33

American photographer and painter Man Ray

Question 34

What type of Duchamp’s works were the epitome of the anti-art Dada movement?

Answer 34

His ready makes

Question 35

How many ready makes did Duchamp produced during his lifetime?

Answer 35

Around twenty

Question 36

What ready make did Duchamp simply put his name on in 1915?

Answer 36

In Advance of the Broken Arm

Question 37

What Dada journal brought attention to Duchamp’s Fountain?

Answer 37

The Blind Man

Question 38

What work did Duchamp render useless by rearranging the pieces of the bicycle?

Answer 38

Bicycle Wheel in 1913

Question 39

What were Duchamp’s first paintings as a teenager inspired by?

Answer 39

Impressionist landscapres

Question 40

How was Duchamp’s works similar to Cubists?

Answer 40

By using their muted palatte

Question 41

Why did Duchamp withdraw Nude Descending a Staircase for the Salon des Independents?

Answer 41

Because of the hypocrisy of rejection by an avant-garde group

Question 42

How did Duchamp create Bicycle Wheel?

Answer 42

By putting the wheel upside down on the seat of the stool

Question 43

Duchamp worked closely with artists from what movement other than Dada?

Answer 43

Surrealist artists

Question 44

What was Duchamp’s position at the Society of Independent Artists in 1917?

Answer 44

Director of the exhibition