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
The Bush (Duchamp) The Bush (Duchamp) The Bush is a painting by Marcel Duchamp from 1910-1911. It is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, that acquired it though the The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection in 1950. Its first owner was Dr. Raymond Dumouchel, himself the subject of another painting by Duchamp, "Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel". One of the models may be Jeanne Serre, with whom Duchamp had a relationship and fathered a child, Yvonne, who later became known as . Duchamp noted that the painting marks the beginning of a practice of attaching non-descriptive titles to his work: "Introduce