The fountain
Marcel DuChamp is an artist I came across when studying what makes a piece of art just that...a piece of art. Perhaps his most famous piece, or most well-known to our generation, is The fountain. This is just a toilet put in a gallery to promote a concept and to the average person is rubbish. How can a toilet be a piece of art you say? When compared to the magnificant paintings of artists such as Picasso, Salvador Dali and Michael Angelo to name but a few. Well the meaning of the piece is apparent when you look deeper.
The fountain is one of a series called the readymades which challange the idea of what makes something a piece of art. Marcel DuChamp came to the conclusion, of sorts, that the difference between art and not art is simply the artists choice for it to be so. The fact that this toilet was in a gallery makes the public view it as a piece of art. It challanges us to view things differently and re-assess what we think to be original. Can we change what we already know to come up with something truly original?
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