"graffiti, digital art, street performances, performance art, sticker art, comics, coffeehouse poetry and Internet-distributed art etc. Gifted Art has a long history in the arts. Many artists have been known to give art freely to each other, in an effort to pass along ideas, etc. Picasso and many of his contemporaries were fond of this. Duchamp was one of the first modern day artists to Gift to the public with his piece, ""Fountain"", for an art show in 1917. He gave the piece under the name of ""R. Mutt,"" presumably to hide his identity as the artist. He actually had"
"that ""it does not take much stretching of the imagination to see in the upside-down urinal's gently flowing curves the veiled head of a classic Renaissance madonna or a seated Buddha or, perhaps more to the point, one of Brâncuși's polished erotic forms."" The meaning (if any) and intention of both the piece and the signature ""R. Mutt"", are difficult to pin down precisely. It is not clear whether Duchamp had in mind the German """"Armut"""" (meaning ""poverty""), or possibly """"Urmutter"""" (meaning “great mother”). The name R. Mutt could also be a play on its commercial origins or on the"
"centrally involved in the conception of this work: ""One of my female friends who had adopted the pseudonym Richard Mutt sent me a porcelain urinal as a sculpture."" The piece is in line with the scatological aesthetics of Duchamp's neighbour, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In an attempt to ""pay homage to the spirit of Dada"" a performance artist named Pierre Pinoncelli made a crack in a replica of ""The Fountain"" with a hammer in January 2006; he also urinated on it in 1993. Picabia's travels tied New York, Zürich and Paris groups together during the Dadaist period. For seven"
"Fountain (Duchamp) Fountain is a readymade sculpture produced by Marcel Duchamp in 1917: a porcelain urinal signed ""R.Mutt"". In April 1917, an ordinary piece of plumbing chosen by Duchamp was submitted for an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, the inaugural exhibition by the Society to be staged at The Grand Central Palace in New York. In Duchamp's presentation, the urinal's orientation was altered from its usual positioning. ""Fountain"" was not rejected by the committee, since Society rules stated that all works would be accepted from artists who paid the fee, but the work was never placed in the"
"the Notre Dame Cathedral, Marcel Duchamp said America's greatest works of art are its bridges and its plumbing. (Stella and Walter Arensberg accompanied Duchamp to a plumbing supply store in 1917 to purchase the infamous urinal, soon to be entitled ""Fountain"" and signed ""R.Mutt""). Whereas other proto-modernists such as Henry James, H. G. Wells and Alvin Langdon Coburn pondered the bridge from a distance—contemplating its cultural and industrial aspects—artists like John Marin, Max Weber, Joseph Stella and Gleizes worked directly at the bridge itself, reveling in the personal experience. This is what Alan Trachtenberg called “the classic moment” when the"
"it was plagiarism, a commercial piece of plumbing. R. Mutt responded, according to Apollinaire, that the work was not immoral since similar pieces could be seen every day exposed in plumbing and bath supply stores. On the second point, R. Mutt pointed out that the fact ""Fountain"" was not made by the hand of the artist was unimportant. The importance was in the choice made by the artist. The artist chose an object of every-day life, erased its usual significance by giving it a new title, and from this point of view, gave a new purely esthetic meaning to the"
"on the worship and love that Americans have for plumbing that trumps all else; additionally, it is revealing of the Baroness's rejection of technology. Perhaps the most notable of plumbing sculptures, ""Fountain"" (1917), by Marcel Duchamp, has also been connected to the Baroness. In a letter written by Marcel Duchamp to his sister Suzanne (dated April 11, 1917) he refers to the famous ready-made: ""One of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture."" Literary historian Irene Gammel suggested in 2002 that the ""female friend"" in question was the Baroness. Duchamp"
"Jerry Saltz wrote in ""The Village Voice"" in 2006: Several performance artists have attempted to ""contribute"" to the piece by urinating in it. South African born artist Kendell Geers rose to international notoriety in 1993 when, at a show in Venice, he urinated into ""Fountain"". Artist / musician Brian Eno declared successfully urinating in ""Fountain"" while exhibited in the MoMA in 1993. He admitted that it was only a technical triumph because he needed to urinate in a tube in advance so he could convey the fluid through a gap between the protective glass. Swedish artist Björn Kjelltoft urinated in"
"stands also for the background of Saâdane Afifs project of the ""Fountain Archives"". After “R.Mutt“ or Marcel Duchamp Fillipovic sees in Afif another person which adopts the white urinal and also conducts the construction of an icon. The ""Fountain Archives"", which contain an image of a ""Fountain Archive"" (mise en abyme), are termed as a “remake” by Filipovic. She compares especially these works with the process of signification of Duchamp’s ""Fountain"" in art history. Fountain Archive The Fountain Archive (also called The Fountain Archives or Fountain Archive Project) is a processual art project of the French conceptual artist Saâdane Afif"
"Pinoncelli urinated into the piece while it was on display in Nîmes, in southern France. Both of Pinoncelli's performances derive from neo-Dadaists' and Viennese Actionists' intervention or manoeuvre. The ""Fountain"" attacked by Pinoncelli was actually number 5 of 8 recreated by Duchamp at a much later date, after the original one was lost. Another is on display in the Indiana University Art Museum, and there is one also in Tate Modern, where in 2000 it too was the target of a urination performance (unsuccessful according to the gallery) by Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi. Artist Cartrain removed a packet"
"New York City, it was opposed by Di Modica. In 2018, New York City mayor Bill DiBlasio announced that both statues would be moved to face the New York Stock Exchange, no longer in opposition. A non-authorised and yet not illicit ploy is sometimes adopted, by carrying out purportedly ""normal"" behaviour, while finding loopholes in the regulations, pushing them to the limit and using them against the regulators. A seminal example of this approach took place in 1917 when Marcel Duchamp submitted a urinal (laid on its back, signed by him ""R.Mutt 1917"", and titled ""Fountain"") to the Society of"
"M. Schulz Museum. McDonnell and his wife Karen reside in New Jersey, with their dog Amelie, and their cat, Willie Lebowsky. Their Jack Russell, Earl, who was the inspiration and constant muse for the Mutts character of the same name, died in November 2007 after living with Patrick for over 18 years. 14. ""love mutts Patrick McDonnell Patrick McDonnell (born March 17, 1956) is a cartoonist, author and playwright. He is the creator of the daily comic strip, ""Mutts"". McDonnell's picture book, The Gift of Nothing, was adapted as a musical for the Kennedy Center stage, as was his picture"
"largest such cast-iron basin in the United States. Some examples of the fountain figure ""The Boy with the Leaking Boot"" in various American and Canadian cities were purchased from the company. The company relocated in about 1902 to Trenton, New Jersey. Plumbing fixtures, including enameled cast iron bathtubs were also a J.L. Mott specialty. In 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp may have selected a urinal from the J.L. Mott showroom in Manhattan and presented it as a work of art called ""Fountain"" at the Society of Independent Artists exhibition. This episode marks the introduction of the readymade in the history of"
"the jungle. The work (a first version of which exists on paper) was originally displayed in April 1988 at a collaborative show in the East Village at the 303 Gallery, along with three urinals sculpted by artist Robert Gober. It was purchased, with the urinals, by its first owners Werner and Elaine Dannheisser, who are thought to have paid around $7,500 for the painting (according to a later estimate by ""Bloomberg Business""). ""It was probably the painting of the year"", said Richard Flood, chief curator of the New Museum, who said its text served as ""a kind of late-'80s mantra"""
"Thus, from the start, there was an interplay of Mutt: a fat little funny man, and Jeff: a tall thin man... I wanted any old name. And I added Richard [French slang for money-bags]. That's not a bad name for a ""pissotière"". Get it? The opposite of poverty. But not even that much, just R. MUTT. At the time Duchamp was a board member of the Society of Independent Artists. After much debate by the board members (most of whom did not know Duchamp had submitted it) about whether the piece was or was not art, ""Fountain"" was hidden from"
"object. Menno Hubregtse argues that Duchamp may have chosen ""Fountain"" as a readymade because it parodied Robert J. Coady's exaltation of industrial machines as pure forms of American art. Coady, who championed his call for American art in his publication ""The Soil"", printed a scathing review of Jean Crotti's ""Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (Sculpture Made to Measure)"" in the December 1916 issue. Hubregtse notes that Duchamp's urinal may have been a clever response to Coady's comparison of Crotti's sculpture with ""the absolute expression of a—plumber."" Some have contested that Duchamp created ""Fountain"", but rather assisted in submitting the piece to"
"Poets and Painters"", edited by Robert Motherwell, a book of translations of Dada texts that was widely read by members of Fluxus. The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Duchamp around 1913, when he created his first readymades from found objects (ordinary objects found or purchased and declared art). Indifferently chosen, readymades and altered readymades challenged the notion of art as an inherently optical experience, dependent on academic art skills. The most famous example is Duchamp's infamous altered readymade ""Fountain"" (1917), a work which he signed ""R. Mutt."" While taking refuge from WWI in New York, in"
"one of the eight 1964 replicas of ""Fountain"". 17 November 1999, a version of ""Fountain"" (owned by Arturo Schwarz) was sold at Sotheby's, New York, for $1,762,500 to Dimitris Daskalopoulos, who declared that ""Fountain"" represented 'the origin of contemporary art'. The price set a world record, at the time, for a work by Marcel Duchamp at public auction. The record was surpassed in 2009 by his 1921 readymade ""Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette"", a perfume bottle in its box which sold for $11.4 million. Fountain (Duchamp) Fountain is a readymade sculpture produced by Marcel Duchamp in 1917: a porcelain urinal"
"after the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, open to all, with no jury and no prize, with a six-dollar membership–entry fee. Duchamp had been appointed head of the hanging committee. When ""Tulip Hysteria Co-ordinating"" did not appear at the show, those who had expected to see it were despondent. Instead of submitting the painting Duchamp resigned as a director following the Society's refused to exhibit ""Fountain"" — a readymade in the form of a urinal and signed with the pseudonym ""R. Mutt."" The incident pointed out that the exhibition was not truly ""open to anyone"", and in retaliation Duchamp withdrew"
"dispatch his 1917 work ""Fountain"", an ordinary bathroom urinal signed with the pseudonym ""R. Mutt,"" to the first show of the Society of Independent Artists was rejected, both he and Arensberg felt obliged to resign from the society. In 1921, for health and financial reasons and upon Louise's insistence, the couple relocated to Hollywood, California. While the move was originally intended to be temporary, the Arensbergs remained in California for the rest of their lives, returning to New York for only a year between 1925 and 1926. They first lived in Residence A, a guest house designed by Frank Lloyd"
"Artist's Shit Artist's Shit (Italian: ""Merda d'artista"") is a 1961 artwork by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni. The work consists of 90 tin cans, each reportedly filled with of faeces, and measuring , with a label in Italian, English, French, and German stating: At the time the piece was created, Manzoni was producing works that explored the relationship between art production and human production, ""Artist's Breath"" (""Fiato d'artista""), a series of balloons filled with his own breath, being an example. Manzoni's father, who owned a cannery, is said to have once told his artist son: ""Your work is shit."" In"
"guy's naked butt."" The painting became the museum's first Impressionist nude, and joined the one other work by Caillebotte, the still life "". The deaccessioned paintings were sold at two auctions at Sotheby's in November 2011 for a total of $18.72 million. They were: Homme au bain (painting) Homme au bain (English title: ""Man at His Bath"") is an oil painting by French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte. The canvas measures . It was held in private collections from the artist's death until June 2011, when it was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The subject of the painting is"
"famous example is ""Fountain"" (1917), a standard urinal purchased from a hardware store and displayed on a pedestal, resting on its side. In its strictest sense the term ""ready-made"" is applied exclusively to works produced by Marcel Duchamp, who borrowed the term from the clothing industry () while living in New York, and especially to works dating from 1913 to 1921. Found objects derive their identity as art from the designation placed upon them by the artist and from the social history that comes with the object. This may be indicated by either its anonymous wear and tear (as in"
"this painting has been ""tentatively identified"" by the ""Annals of Improbable Research""—the creators of the Ig Nobel award—as John Ashcroft, former United States Attorney General. A visitor was so moved by ""George"" he felt compelled to express his gratitude for its display in the Dedham Community Theatre basement, writing ""Someone had slipped into the bathroom as I took in this painting and began peeing loudly into a toilet. The reverberating sound of urine splashing while viewing ""George"" brought the painting to life, and when the denouement of the flush sounded, I wept."" MOBA's accompanying caption introduces questions and observations: ""Can"
"from. Contradicting its stated principle of ""no jury"", the committee of the Independents rejected ""Fountain"", and, as reported in ""The New York Herald"", 14 April 1917: To-day Mr. Mutt has his exhibit and his $5; Mr. Duchamp has a headache, and the Society of Independent Artists has the resignation of one of its directors and a bad disposition. After a long battle that lasted up to the opening hour of the exhibition, Mr. Mutt's defenders were voted down by a small margin. ""The Fountain,"" as his entry was known will never become an attraction - or detraction - of the"
"the can at irresponsibly high temperatures. The lawsuit ended with the museum paying a DKK 250,000 kr. settlement to the collector. Artist's Shit Artist's Shit (Italian: ""Merda d'artista"") is a 1961 artwork by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni. The work consists of 90 tin cans, each reportedly filled with of faeces, and measuring , with a label in Italian, English, French, and German stating: At the time the piece was created, Manzoni was producing works that explored the relationship between art production and human production, ""Artist's Breath"" (""Fiato d'artista""), a series of balloons filled with his own breath, being an"
"– to weave a fabric of brushstrokes which, although emphatically brushstrokes, retain a strong descriptive quality. The painting is now in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was bequeathed by Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer in 1929. Bain à la Grenouillère Bain à la Grenouillère is a painting by the impressionist painter, Claude Monet. (Oil on canvas, 74.6 cm x 99.7 cm) Monet wrote on September 25, 1869 in a letter to Frédéric Bazille, ""I do have a dream, a painting (""tableau""), the baths of La Grenouillère, for which I have made some bad sketches (""pochades""), but it is"
"was confined to propaganda. This is also humorous because without Duchamp's ""R. Mutt"" signature on the urinal, Mao could just as well be inspecting a factory-made urinal for its usefulness in aiding China. Due to the unexpected subject matter of Xinning's Mao paintings, Mao Zedong's presence often seems absurd or ironic. Mao Zedong can be seen beside celebrities Sofia Loren and Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Peggy Guggenheim, and even Andy Warhol. Not only is Mao represented next to notable western cultural figures and celebrities in these paintings, but he is also found attending historic events with western politicians and leaders."
"M. Chat M. Chat (also known as Monsieur Chat and Mr Chat) is the name of a graffiti cat that originally appeared in Orléans, France in 1997. The graffiti appeared most frequently on chimneys, but was also sighted in other places, such as train platforms and at political rallies. The artist was originally anonymous, but in 2007 Thoma Vuille was caught in the act of creating the cat. The yellow cartoon cat is characterized by its large Cheshire Cat grin. The cat is most often portrayed in a running pose, but has also been variously depicted waving signal flags, bouncing"
"2014, 101 years after the manifest of Carlo Carra “La Pittura dei suoni, rumori, odori: Manifesto futurista” (The Painting of Sounds, Noises, Smells: Futurist Manifesto) , Peter de Cupere signed his Olfactory Art manifest with his own smell. After two years of intensively collecting his bodily smells, he got only a small bottle ‘Own Smell’ at his disposal. With this smell extract he signed the manifest. The manifest has been shown in several exhibitions; Belle Haleine, The scent of Art in the Tinguely Museum in Basel, CH, as in the exhibition There’s Something in the Air! at Villa Rot, Burgrieden,"
"Donald L. Rust D.L. ""Rusty"" Rust (born 1932) is an American artist. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is acclaimed among pin-up art collectors. Primarily a realist, Rust's preferred medium is oil on canvas and his subjects range from wildlife, scenics, still-life, fantasy, portraits, pin-ups and nudes. Early works concentrated on circus and portrait subjects, including such prominent individuals as Emmett Kelly, Merle Evans (Ringling band leader), and American painter Norman Rockwell. Rust is a prolific and talented Pin-up girl and glamour artist, with over 850 pin-up and nude oil paintings preferring large 30"" x 24"" sized paintings. His"
"stalls. The late Alan Dundes, a folklorist at University of California, Berkeley, coined the term ""latrinalia"" in 1966 to refer to graffiti found in restrooms. Dundes preferred it over the term ""shithouse poetry"", as not all latrinalia is in verse or poetic form. The word is derived from the compounding of ""latrine"" (or toilet) and the suffix ""-alia"", which signifies a worthless collection of something — in this case bathroom writings. Latrinalia Latrinalia is a type of deliberately inscribed marking made on latrines: that is, bathrooms or lavatory walls. It can take the form of art, drawings, or words, including"
"the female Dutch artist Meike van Schijndel, where subject to controversy when feminists judged them to be sexist. The urinals have the shape of red lips and are inspired by the logo of The Rolling Stones. Back in 1971, the logo was inspired by the mouth of Mick Jagger. In this design the tongue is left away, which gives a mere womanly look. Founder Ulli Schröder replied to the controversy with: ""That's not a man's mouth or a woman's mouth, that's art. They were damned expensive and they're staying where they are and that’s final."" In 2012 Schröder and artist"