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design comparison

The first designer that i was drawn to immediately would be Marcel Duchamp, last year my favorite class i took was art history. In art history we learned about dada and the culture behind it. fountain was one of his most famous works and it was ground breaking at the time. Just like the book says “The dada movement was a reaction by artist to what they perceived as a world gone mad” Marcel Duchamp put this in an art gallery and it made people leave because they didn’t like seeing such vulgar work in a formal setting. The idea behind this work was that since it was a urinal flipped upside down the pee would just drain right back onto your feet. doesn’t seem like such a big deal but at the time it was incredibly edgy. Marcel also continued to pursue work like this in order to push dadaism further, he did this with the concept of everything could be art.

Lester Ball