Showing posts with label Marcel Duchamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marcel Duchamp. Show all posts

Monday, February 9, 2009

Duchamp and Circles


if you know my work, you know i like the circles! i haven't quite figured out why i like to work w/them so much, but i'm always interested to find out more and more about them. I'm reading a bio on Marcel Duchamp and he liked circles too! When describing the work above, Chocolate Grinder No.2 he says:
Always there has been a necessity for circles in my life, for, how do you say, rotation. It is a kind of onanism. The machine goes round, and by some miraculous process i have always found fascinating, produces chocolate.
he later used this image, (the real chocolate grinder only had 2 grinders) in The Large Glass.