Readymades of Marcel Duchamp not the true "Mona Lisa", but Duchamp's own slightly-different version that he modelled partly after himself. The inference of Shearer's viewpoint is that Duchamp was creating an even larger joke than he admitted. Readymades of Marcel Duchamp The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art". By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the Found object became art. Duchamp was not interested in what he called "retinal art" — art that was only visual — and sought
Marcel Duchamp Duchamp's "Étant donnés" tableau, "The Large Glass" was thought to have been his last major work. Duchamp's interest in kinetic works can be discerned as early as the notes for "The Large Glass" and the "Bicycle Wheel" readymade, and despite losing interest in "retinal art," he retained interest in visual phenomena. In 1920, with help from Man Ray, Duchamp built a motorized sculpture, "Rotative plaques verre, optique de précision" ("Rotary Glass Plates, Precision Optics"). The piece, which he did not consider to be art, involved a motor to spin pieces of rectangular glass on which were painted segments of a