Marcel Duchamp as the creator of a new kind of plastic art

Marcel Duchamp stood at the origins of Dadaism and surrealism. In the 1920s, he actively participated in the actions of the "dada" and surrealist groups, as well as filming several movies, for example, in the surreal film René Claire "Entract".

Fontain by Marcel Duchamp

The artist also became known as a bright representative of the new trend in conceptual art - the method of "ready-made things" (ready-made). Duchamp presented to the attention of the public everyday objects, for example, a dryer for bottles or a urinal. His work shocked and attracted attention.

Rhythm in visual art

In art, the role of rhythm is great and diverse. Rhythm is the ordering, alternation of some elements, occurring with a certain sequence, frequency.

The word rhythm (Greek rhythmos - movement, tact), comes from rhein - flow. In music, poetry, this concept conveys "fluidity," melody of melody, speech. Rhythm is one of the main elements of the expressiveness of the melody. Some rhythms are characteristic, for example, for marches, others for lullabies, etc.

Dynamics and statics in the image, movement, rhythm

Dynamic composition - a composition in which the impression of movement and internal dynamics is created.

Static composition (statics in composition) - creates the impression of immobility.

 The image on the left looks static. The picture on the right creates an illusion of movement. Why? Because we know perfectly well from our experience what will happen to the round object if we tilt the surface on which it is located. And we perceive this object even in the picture moving.

Origin of a graphic motion in art

For a long time, a way of drawing and reading diagrams has come to life, where the left part of the drawing at the bottom is designated as the beginning. Then, as a rule, the movement develops from the bottom - up and left - to the right. Graphically, the drop line runs from the top to the bottom and to the right. The proposed scheme here at first glance seems conditional - traditional


This is facilitated by the accepted (in most cases) tradition of writing from left to right.