Marcel Duchamp as the creator of a new kind of plastic art. Marcel Duchamp stood at the origins of Dadaism and surrealism. Fontain by Marcel Duchamp The artist also became known as a bright representative of the new trend in conceptual art - the method of "ready-made things" ready-made. Duchamp presented to the attention of the public everyday objects, for example, a dryer for bottles or a urinal.
His work shocked and attracted attention. The influence of Marcel Duchamp's creative experiment on the very concept of art in the twentieth century is so great and multifaceted that in modern science his artistic personality is often regarded as one of the most vivid incarnations of the modernist spirit, continuing to play a prominent role in the aesthetics of postmodernism years after the artist's death.
It was Marcel Duchamp who presented the world art with the genre of ready-made, i. The possibility of "presenting in the exhibition unchanged objects of mass production" [9], thereby transferring the creative dominant from the process of creating a work of art into the process of perception.
At the same time, at a more detailed and historically limited level, Duchamp's language experiments and humorous art objects became symbols of the art of Dadaism and Surrealism, fully demonstrating the convention of language as an instrument of communication, on the one hand, and a realistic pictorial canon, on the other.
Marcel Duchamp was not in a hurry to join the Dadaists or surrealists, preserving a kind of creative neutrality throughout his life. In fact, it was this "non-inclusion" in any current that determined the role of the artist in the history of art: "The reasons why Duchamp was such a suitable symbol for the avant-garde contain an important paradox: this role was qualified by the distance in relation to those, Whom he was called to represent "[13].
