Duchamp

This is not the same thing that artists have been doing since Duchamp hung a urinal on a wall and called it art.

What could come closer to the anti-retinal position of Duchamp than paintings so dark they can barely impinge on our retinas?

The Daily Pic: In 1913, New Yorker Robert Winthrop Chandler was a successful radical, until he got swamped by Matisse and Duchamp.

It seems he was offered a spot in the great Armory Show, but turned it down – and then went on to buy a Duchamp that he saw in it.