Word: duchamps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gaston was trained to be a lawyer, Raymond a doctor, Marcel a librarian. But to young men out for excitement in turn-of-the-century Paris, the studios of Montmartre were irresistible, so the Duchamp boys all ended up artists. Even sister Suzanne tagged along, tried her hand at brush and canvas. Last week a Manhattan exhibit of the four Duchamps gave a nostalgic glimpse of modern art's brash young cubist days, and brought the Duchamp family up to date...
Producer-director Hans Richter assembled five of his fellow artists and allowed each of them to dream up a separate sequence for the movie. Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Alexander Calder each contributed an idea. Then Richter strung them all together with what--if logic be considered--is the most tenuous of threads. But, logic be damned, say the surrealists. And, in watching the movie, you are apt to accept their premise...
...great deal of emotion fuses the color and sounds together. And for those who have a dread of the esoteric, it might be added that their baser instincts will be thoroughly aroused by a number of the scenes. Apparently everything passed over the head of the censors except Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase." On her, they have had some black discs appropriately placed. But throughout the rest of the film the libidos of the painters and musicians have freely flowed forth without regard for either the censors or the tastes of the old lady from Dubuque...
...Arensbergs bought fine works by almost every pioneer modern artist, but they cherish especially fervent views of Duchamp and Brancusi...
...Duchamp sold three-fourths of his output to them, and him they deem to be "the Giorgione of the 20th Century . . . He remains the unknown soldier of the war for modern art, perhaps because of the smallness of his output." Soldier Duchamp fought his last battle with a piece of canvas some 30 years ago, gave up painting to pursue a greater passion: chess. He has since (TIME, Oct. 31, 1949) become a fair player...