The above is by Marcel Duchamp, and is entitled "Fountain". But it is not a fountain, it is a urinal!!! How do those two things get mixed up? I have a difficult time with this. Can it really be considered artwork? Could I take a picture of the sink in my apartment and call it "spring" and have it be a world renowned piece of work?! "Fountain" was created during the Dataist movement in the early 20th century. The members of this group were trying to create "anti-art" to challenge what art really is. After learning this, I could understand Fountain a bit better, because it doesn't really seem like art to me! Like the balloon dogs I commented on before this, they do not fit into the idea of a beautiful piece of art. When I think of art, I see a beautiful scene that was drawn or a painting of a beautiful person. Not a blow-up dog or a urinal!!!
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