artBob Loc: Near Chicago

Here photographs have been composited, for fun and pointed humor aimed at Fine Art.

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RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

This one is over my head.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

Very clever!

artBob Loc: Near Chicago

It's an "in" joke, like movies and music sometimes have. Duchamp was the guy who submitted a urinal as an artwork. Methinks my joke will not change the world. 😊

artBob Loc: Near Chicago

Thanks. Good ol' Duchamp was pretty clever himself, although I don't like what he did to art with his "Dada" stuff.

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

You unfairly demean Duchamp for his pointed “in joke” of having submitted a porcelain urinal as sculpture. His series of “readymades” were successful in setting the early 20th century American art world on its collective ear! He earned early opprobrium - but ultimately respect - for his cubist painting, “Nude Descending a Staircase Number 2”, and helped, along with Picasso and other European futurists, cubists, and impressionists, to introduce the American art world to the modernism movement at the ground-breaking Armory Show in New York City in 1913.

And as for “in jokes”...you might note that at least Duchamp’s “in joke” of “readymades” did, indeed, help to change the art world!

artBob Loc: Near Chicago

I'm aware of art history. I think I quite fairly "demean" his Dadaist work. While covering that and its later developments in my classes, I pointed out its significance, followed by my opinion that the nihilistic aspects aided in creating a separation between Art and the world. A superior-feeling, egotistical artt carried "épater le bourgeois" to an extreme. Instead of using beauty (not the same as "pretty") to move people, they went abjectly to anti-art. Big mistake.