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Marcel
Duchamp was a French painter and theorist, a
major proponent of Dada, and one of the most
influential figures of avant-garde 20th-century
art. Dada was a set of not very consistent artistic
movements arisen amid the Great War. Iconoclasm
and nihilism, the protest against the entire
fabric of European society were its common features.
The name Dada was intended as nonsense, which
was accepted by acclamation.
After his short creative period, Duchamp was
content to let others develop the themes he
had originated; his pervasive influence was
crucial to the development of surrealism, Dada,
and pop art. Duchamp became an American citizen
in 1955. He died in Paris on October 1, 1968.
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