Contemporary art - Exercise 1 - Duchamp's Fountain

First response: ugly, strange, it can't be art, who could say that?

I was thinking about that piece and I must say Marcel Duchamp might wanted to show the world from another point of view. The things we use everyday and not too much consciously lets say and now we see them in other angle and named differently, in other context, it could make an effect to stop for a moment and think "hey he is kidding? what is that about? Fountain?" Illusion is the word which appeared in my mind.

I was also thinking if I can display that piece in my house. I do not why but a model in smaller scale I would have it.



26.9.15: I agree with that comment from TheNicoleTrain youtube Duchamp's Shovel

"It's not about admiring the aesthetic qualities or it or diminishing it of it's function to be looked at purely for it's beauty or lack of. He was challanging the perception of art, it was a test for the masses. Showing the world that art is in the interactivity of the mind, and what each and every person thinks of the object not the object itself. The art is in the debate, the art is in the thinking."