Duchamp

[ dy-shahn ]

noun

1. Mar·cel [m, a, r, -, sel], 1887–1968, French painter, in U.S. after 1915 (brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon).

Duchamp

/ dyʃɑ̃ /

noun

1. DuchampMarcel18871968MUSFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor Marcel (marsɛl). 1887–1968, US painter and sculptor, born in France; noted as a leading exponent of Dada. His best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)

Example Sentences

Early in the 20th century, French iconoclast Marcel Duchamp described a new “scientific spirit” for avant-garde art, noting the methodical painterly investigations of predecessors Georges Seurat and Paul Cézanne.

From Los Angeles Times

When the French artist Marcel Duchamp drew a mustache on a copy of the Mona Lisa, he made the most famous parody in art history.

From Literature

A volunteer at the old Pasadena Art Museum, which was shaking things up with exhibitions of Marcel Duchamp’s Dada high jinks and Pop painting and sculpture, she was still new to art.

From Los Angeles Times

Ruscha’s sly painting invokes the rejection of “retinal art,” intended only to please the eye, by Marcel Duchamp, cultural iconoclasm’s reigning dignitary.

From Los Angeles Times

Warhol had also seen the Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum a few months earlier.

From Los Angeles Times