the theme behind the painting was still unusual for Cubism. Portrait of Chess Players depicts Duchamp’s brothers, Raymond and Jacques, sitting across from each other playing chess. Marcel ...

The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

One of the more notable successes was Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase ... change an atomic surface almost in real time. Cubist painting deeply bothered some people a hundred years ...