| Through reviewing French modern artist Marcel Duchamp's view of life and art as well as analyzing his artworks, this essay aims at discussing the aesthetic ideology and his impact as a herald of the artistic revolution beyond canvas. Besides, Though he has been accepted, written and settled as a genre in fine arts history by the western artist circle, or even presently people still take delights in talking about his artworks, Duchamp's most excellent idea, that is to surpass the artistic limitation and enter a freedom realm, is not fully understood yet.Duchamp became the herald of the artistic revolution beyond canvas as well as its relationship with other artistic schools, say Dadaism. Besides, the difference between Duchamp and Cézanne, the forerunner of the artistic revolution on canvas, has been taken into discussion. In modern artistic history, Cézanne is a great artist, but not as great as Duchamp, because Cézanne's revolution is still restricted to canvas. What Cézanne hammering away at is how to paint, and the art he initiated only brings the renewal of artistic language and modality, whereas Duchamp had completely got rid of the canvas, his ready—mades has radically overthrown traditional concepts. If Cézanne is deemed as a serious painter, Duchamp should be deemed as an engrained ideologist. Duchamp's emergence symbolizes an era's end and another era's start.Marcel Duchamp's impact on post-modern art. Marcel Duchamp advocates free philosophy, leading the post-modern art's progress; Marcel Duchamp's advocacy of free spirit opened the strobe of post-modern artists'creative ability. Art has aesthetic property and art is the highest manifestation of beauty. These are the principles of art. However, Duchamp never put art into the category of beauty but of existence. He turned art upside down, letting himself go beyond the limitation of art and look on art standing outside of it. Turning from visual image to thinking, he viewed the culture and art circle in a new perspective and made efforts to explore the nature of art. He believed that works of art is not for appreciation but more importantly to make people think.[1] The greatest contribution he made for man is his excellent idea, which is to surpass the limitation of art and enter a freedom realm.It addresses that most revolutionary thinking convulsion goes to Marcel Duchamp. He believed that art could be non-art, no matter he was deemed as anti-art, destruction, or even ballyhack, he's just doing what he thought he should do.[2]He, as the pioneer of experimental art in the 20th century, is honored as the numen of modern art. His ideas on art has become many subsequent neo-artists'periapt. This essay has put forward a constructive and positive method for art appreciation to correctly value the modern art and post-modern art in the art development history as well as correctly value the Marcel Duchamp's artworks and Dadaism's aesthetic ideology. Duchamp is not only to become a first-rank artist but also to become a man who is physically and mentally free. To live like flowing water, letting the life stretch as it be, is hundred times more beautiful than art itself.Duchamp's life and analyzes his artistic ideas and works. |
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