Ready Made: concept and works of art
You ready made They are industrialized objects that, removed from their everyday and utilitarian context, transform themselves into works of art. This happens from the moment they are inserted in museums and galleries.
This is an artistic resource that has been used since the beginning of the 20th century and, on the other hand, causes strangeness in a large part of the public.
Marcel Duchamp: o pai do ready made
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), French Dadaist artist, is recognized as the breeder of the concept of ready made, which originally (in French) was called objet trouvé.
See some examples of ready made Feitos for the one who contributed to a transformation I do not think about art.
Bicycle wheel (1913)
The first work of its shape by Duchamp is about a bicycle wheel attached to a bench, and dates from 1913. This type of work with more of an object that suffers interference from the artist was called ready maderefined.
This work was created, in principle, to be part of the artist. Duchamp appreciated olhá-la enquanto trabalhava and, at the same time, a tour to see or move. As soon as 1916, what object will be titled as ready made.
Fonte (1917)
To Fonte é o ready made of greater importance in the history of art. Conceived in 1917, this work consists of a white porcelain mictory (or urinol). It was exhibited in an exhibition not the same year of its breeding and presented under the pseudonym of R. Mutt.
On occasion, or work was severely criticized. Contudo, later ganhou notorious for its answering and reflective character, proper to Dadaist vertente.
Marcel Duchamp was always attributed as the breeder of the work, meanwhile, recent investigations place his authorship dubious. I know that this work was sent to the exhibition of 1917 by a woman named Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven.
Elsa was a German artist who contacted Duchamp. In the 1980s, a letter was found in the artist that relates that urinol was the idea of a Dadaist friend.
Bottle holder (1914)
In 1914 Marcel Duchamp acquired an object that he wanted to pay attention to. It was a bottle holder, a small metal structure with several lengths.
Or an artist kept in his local work or object, which later was played outside by his relatives. Later, they formed small replicas of the bottle holder.
Ready made e or Dadaism, which relationship?
O Dadaism was a movement belonging to avant-garde Europeans that sought to convey irony, contestation and denial of art itself. So that the artists will be able to express outrage at the absurdities committed in the First World War and other events of the commencement of the secular.
They seek to break away from traditional art, cause strangeness and non-public surprise. Assim, you ready made It will serve as an ideal resource that makes sense, irrational and sarcastic character.
Other artists we use ready made
Deposits of Duchamp and European avant-garde art took very diverse rumors. From the second goal of the XX seculum, he desponses or Contemporary Art, which seeks to trace innovative techniques and procedures.
Many artists will be inspired by the critical atmosphere of Dadaism and not subversive character. ready made. It is possible to perceive other possibilities of representation and expression, re-signifying ready objects.
Dessa form, other artists also use artifact in their creations. Not Brazil, we can cite Waltercio Caldas and Cildo Meireles, for example.
Outra work that can be cited as um ready made é Uma e Três Cadeiras, feita em 1965 by Joseph Kosuth.
Nessa produção, or North American artist exhibits a common cadeira, a photograph of the cadeira and a text as meaning of the cadeira. Esse work and inserted na conceitual art.
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Art-educator, visual artist and photographer. Graduated in Art Education from the Paulista State University (Unesp) and trained in Photography from the Pan-American School of Art and Design.
