lunadalionly1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

what is the purpose of art? to be able to communicate an idea? or just to express it?

lapsus5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

a freakin' genius!

lapsus5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I love Duchamp. He was an innovator in the art world. He realized art could surpass modernist trends and did what nowadays we call "new media" art and "installation". He was a true vanguard in the art world.

nichelodeonband (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Nichelodeon's first promo is called "Cinemanemico", an homage to a genius

yellville (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Funny you should mention Lang (whom I love, and perhaps appreciate more than I do Duchamp, though I don't think the two bear comparison). The wheel aesthetic actually reminds me very much of Lang. However, just because the two artists are from the same time period doesn't mean it makes sense for the quality of their pieces to be compared broadly and generally.

sheep41 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

arts next big question is "can art get any more simple then this?" reply with your thought and comment i say no cause casue i just cant think of anything else? if there was something more simple someone would of done it by now!

mopsius (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

A seminal work at the beginning of the second stage of cinema, bridging the kinematic of Nude Descending a staircase and the effects of Doctor Melies. By the end of his life and work, Duchamp had already transcended television and computer graphics, and is now still at least fifty years ahead of lagging world.

xicocamotl (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I guess it's not necessary to "understand" a work of art; at least, not in the domestic way you "understand" other things... Visual arts, especially since the artist you call "the guy" showed up in 1914, demands from you as a viewer something more than just opening your eyes. If you are interested in the origins of contemporary art, you may want to study in depth the work of Marcel Duchamp. Two books I suggest: the Complete Works (by A. Schwartz) and his biography by Calvin Tomkins.

republikanin (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

do you think you're an artist if you make something only you can understand? that's what the guy did. the rest claims to see in it some incredible message, but most of them don't get it as well and pretend to be smart. give u an example: a friend of mine wrote a song on having sex on a train. he used no dirty words, just tried to make it nice: the audience said it was a metaphysical story on searching of the meaning of life and the autor must have a deep spirituality. c what i mean?

xicocamotl (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

They are puns, amazing wordplays in french