biography
pronunciation:
[düshã]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1968)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Blainville, France. The brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and half brother of Jacques Villon, he became famous with ‘Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2’ (1912) exhibited at the New York Armory Show (1913), and was a founder of the Société Anonyme, New York (1920), an organization promoting nonobjective art. An intermittent visitor to New York, he led the American Dada movement that tried to convey the absurdity of life. He was among the first to construct mobiles and to produce works made of found (junk) objects. His glass, wire, and painted foil construction, ‘The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even’ (1915–23), was one of his last major works. One of his most famous pieces was ‘L.H.O.O.Q’, a reproduction of Leonardo's ‘Mona Lisa’ to which he added a moustache and goatee. Settling in the USA (1942), he became a US citizen in 1955 and virtually abandoned art in his final decades to concentrate on playing chess. |
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