Bicycle Wheel by Marcel Duchamp
This Dada artwork was made by Marcel Duchamp. His artwork was created because he was experimenting and wanted to see what can be considered as art. Using a bicycle wheel, stool, and fork to create a “nonfunctional machine” as his artwork. This piece is unique and the bicycle wheel is distracting views from everything else which is exactly what the artist wanted. He used the bicycle wheel as a distraction in his artwork. He replaced the bicycle wheel from 1913 which was lost but he used a replacement. This piece was his first work that raised fundamental questions about art making and its definition. The artwork is made of a common object altered by being merged with another common object to create a masterpiece. Marcel was happy with his work’s appearance because according to Marcel the bicycle wheel gave an illusion that it was turning.
Ladybug by Joan Mitchell
This artwork is an example of abstract expressionism. Joan Mitchell challenged her New York school about her paintings but she also saw her paintings as dealing with nature with the outer world rather than the inner world. She didn’t really express herself too much in her work. If it was a work of landscaping that is exactly what the painting was. The freedom in her artwork is controlled because she wanted it to be more abstract. This painting has a lot of colors, lines, and movement. Joan is also known as an “action” artist. This painting shows colors that can be mixed well together with liquid drops but has a flatness with empty parts on the edges of the painting. The white patches are more pigmented and have intensity and texture also. This painting has a variety of colors that Joan used such as greens, blues, reds and brown etc. This artwork looks energetic and full of life with overlapping strokes all over the painting.
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