Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Life | 2020 NHD Documentary

The beginning of the 20th century oversaw an era of transition from traditionalism to modernity among social upheaval and discontent throughout the world. Among the individuals that progressed in this era of change was Marcel Duchamp, a man whose artistic ingenuity broke the barriers that chained art to the traditionalist and conformist styles of the past, revolutionizing the meaning of art and what it represented.
Credits:
Angela Kim, Grace Wen, Jason Lee

[@faithaaustin]

Consider submitting this to a youth short film festival! It’s so professional... and definitely is above NHD quality

[@angelasykim]

Thank you so much!

[@emanuelle8364]

Could you tell me what NHD stands for?

[@boutheinakorchani8437]

i agree!!

[@vivaciousmyosotis]

@@emanuelle8364 National history day

[@emanuelle8364]

@@vivaciousmyosotis thank you

[@eliotguerin192]

I admire Duchamp’s whole career, but I’m absolutely floored by his earlier paintings. The understanding of motion mixed with a deliberate distortion of it is mesmerizing. With his more provocative works, I don’t see much beauty in them, although I still respect their place in history and the statements they made.

[@xclusivon1676]

No clue how this didn’t qualify for nationals, amazing work!

[@steffenrbn6453]

"art is not solvable. maybe an answer is not what we are supposed to be looking for. it's just to keep on thinking." i really love that idea wow

[@EvaGedrich-nh3ug]

This is absolutely incredible!!! This has to be the most beautiful documentary I’ve seen in my NHD career. What programs/techniques did you use for it to turn out like this? Honestly the fact that this didn’t win is criminal.

[@hiridavidfeign]

I've loved Duchamp for forty years, but I've never seen many of these early works. Inspiring piece. Thanks.

[@adrianmatic9832]

I honestly love Marcel Duchamp and this video is so good.

[@913Blitz]

Best documentary I've ever seen. What audio recording device did you use?

[@koense]

Why does this video has so few views? I learned sooo much, thank you for this!!

[@abitseasick]

I'm pretty sure, David Lynch got inspired by the Étant Donnés piece for Twin Peaks... Great video! Thank you for putting it so lovely together!

[@scottallen8651]

Thank you for this

[@nxtflow-9518]

This is amazing! Very great video, I thought I was watching a professional documentary by BBC or sth, straight up stunning 🙌

[@lecolintube]

Thank you! This was amazing! So we’ll done - please make more!

[@carnellzabolocky5528]

This man, and this man alone, changed the face of art!!! Meret Oppenheim, his half brother, interalia...well, what can one say?!? Fabulous!!! Thanks!

[@BrianRussell37]

Wonderful. Got me thinking in ways I hadn’t before. Even on topics I thought I knew a great deal. Truly this is the definition of successful moving images. 👍

[@chisatofan2]

Pronunciation on point, awesome job.

[@secularpilgrim1372]

Loved this and learned a lot. Thank you.

[@studio107bgallery4]

Excellent excellent thank you

[@feedthishungarygoofboi]

This is stunning!

[@charanbala3865]

One more question: I would like to make animation/graphics as you did on Premiere Pro. Is there a tutorial you used, and how did you learn it?

[@angelasykim]

Hi Charan! No, we did not use any tutorials. But, I find this one to be the closest to my process/workflow: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIKmoZmElN2irNU&ab_channel=SonduckFilm If you'd like to have any assets that I used, send me your email and I'll happily send you some!

[@hooraayy]

This is wonderful!

[@bdnhop]

what editing software? how did you get the zooms into the image such as at 4:36

[@essentialist12]

Would you be able to add subtitles? I find this video to be so interesting

[@avavb3]

i have my history fair coming up what editing app did u use

[@grungeseabunny]

pls what software did you use 🙏🙏

[@bluecanarinho]

Great work!!! big up

[@confuciuslola]

Good overview of his life, and good video essay!

[@naraiattila6109]

Such a professional video!!

[@robertverf3283]

The Fountain is not by Marcel Duchamp, but by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven !!! So you can re-write your art history story...!

[@j.arthur8457]

Super well done wow

[@calebmundle5948]

Great video.

[@williamcreel1316]

You forget that "The Large Glass" had an inadvertent addition to its design. In moving the piece to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the shipping people managed to crack the piece. In discovering this, Duchamp made no attempt at fixing the damage, he instead incorporated it into the piece, and stabilized it. Also, the first installation of "The Fountain" actually got disposed of by the custodial staff since they saw it as just a urinal, which it is, just with a signature on it.

[@quinnqreates9248]

Excellent video! So interesting, thanks

[@rob.thatsme3747]

the video is well done, love it really nice!!! continue this work

[@aarushiarya6055]

This is really good. Did you qualify for Nationals? The barrier itself is really interesting and so are the graphics; really engaging.

[@angelasykim]

Hi, Aarushi! Thank you so much for your comment :D A lot of hard work went into editing and graphics this year. Unfortunately, we did not qualify for Nationals; hopefully, next year :)

[@charanbala3865]

Wow! This was very well edited! May I know what program you used to edit it?

[@angelasykim]

Thank you so much! I used Final Cut Pro X (main) and Adobe Premiere Pro (for graphics).

[@joeboydmusic]

Great video 🙌 thanks

[@Skeletor611]

Please allow the captions…

[@lakenall2323]

Hey, what program did you use to put this together?

[@angelasykim]

I used Final Cut Pro X!

[@michaeldibiase5601]

absolutely amazing, he would be proud

[@sophia-dm6cd]

What software did you use to make this? It's really well done!

[@angelasykim]

Thank you very much! I mainly used Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere Pro for graphics.

[@gavinreid5387]

His Fountain was almost completely unknown until he authorised replicas for his retrospectives in 1963. Until then books that mentioned Duchamp focused on such works as Nude decending.... and Bicycle Wheel, and Bride Stripped Bare...

[@matfriske5548]

I recently discovered photos my father did of Duchamp with Warhol and Dennis Hopper.

[@DateTwoRelate]

If you're considering making more of these as at least a part-time gig, see if "PocketDocs" or "PocketArtDocs" (or something actually witty) has been copyrighted. If not, consider the process of copyrighting and consider branding yourself. This was pleasing to my senses AND informative to boot. Your basic ingredients already exist. The question is whether you want to undertake more cooking. And consider reading Seth Godin to inspire you further. Short intelligent documentaries of art subjects of art AS art itself perhaps marketed to worldwide art museums and institutions of higher education? Anyhow, something to consider.

[@Allaboutstory]

Woww, So good Video

[@jamespage8395]

art of live is back

[@moirai1161]

that was amazing!!

[@smallcapy]

The Mona Lisa parody is also a play on words. In french, if you spell out "L.H.O.O.Q" it sounds like "Elle a chaud au cul", which translates to "She has a hot arse" or "There is fire down below".

[@williamcreel1316]

I swear that Marcel Duchamp had a certain level of mischievousness as someone like Bart Simpson. You could view it as poking fun at the stuffiness of the art community, or just grade school humor.

[@_artorical_]

“In 1935 André Breton attributed the urinal to Duchamp, but it wasn’t until 1950, long after the artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had died and four years after Alfred Stieglitz’s death, that Duchamp began to take credit for the piece and authorise replicas.”

[@raystaar]

Epiphany and epitome are not synonyms. Otherwise, this is a stellar piece of work.

[@Tycho09]

Wow i feel alot worse about my documentary now :/ Great work!

[@r.roddick7585]

'' art is an outlet toward (conduit to) regions which are not ruled by time and space ' (what i hear)

[@robertmoyer175]

Very well done, unfortunately I needed to look back at what the theme was in 2020 since you did not address it in the video. Inferred yes, however, as a judge it needed to be clear.

[@renzo6490]

Implied. Not inferred.

[@selfactualizer2099]

remember people, just because he used this method of art as a protest, doesnt mean you can just throw some random stuff together and call it art, you still have to try kids.

[@artilhausa]

A beautiful and realistic sculpture and paint always gonna have a huge impact in the brain, regards on quimical reactions so as oxytocin, Dopamine, endorphin, science has proved that, i am not sure about a tire in upside down position, opps i forgot i am not clever enough to figure out hahah. If you wanna understand why he made fun of Monalisa, just take a look on his old painting and sculptures....

[@bookoffholicbookwart5945]

This is Ted Ed quality. Wow

[@johnmackenzie3030]

Great video. And thought-provoking. Bicycle Wheel of 1913 doesn't seem to me to be a ready made. MD had to get his drill out to bolt the wheel to the seat etc. The seat is not a mere plinth, but clearly part of the sculpture. Yes, the bottle rack was by his definition a ready made, but etant donnes? MD was incredibly influential but the ovine art establishment have this unquestioning adoration of him. And yes while on the one hand we can agree with their mantra: If the artist declares it art then (abracadabra) it is. However, I have yet to be invited back to anyone's house to see their prized bottle rack or Mutt urinal . You only find that kind of non art at student degree shows or in museum collections. But the public are always drawn to these shows even if they wouldn't exhibit ready mades in their private collections or offices. He certainly was an unusual man: in 1916 he was having a laugh with urinals in New York when millions were dying back home in France during WW1. But you can't help but love him, the enigmatic French intellectual, the chess player, the wit artist, who nicked the cubist style from Picasso and Bracques. Like Picasso, MD enjoyed the status of artist as celebrity and created the notion of the artist's life being of equal importance to his or her art. PS I would like to know when he started smoking cigarettes. Seemed to be a big influence.

[@cucaferreti]

Why i cant rate this wonderful thiing on letterboxd?

[@AYYYEEEEYOOO]

Duchamp is hip hop

[@pvganesanvelusamy7971]

🌱🙏

[@Roastery_Nnil]

Quite impressive and informative. Narration could be 5% slower though. :)

[@cody2957]

nah bruh they were at the max time limit, if they did more they would have been disqualified

[@MegaJotie]

Oh God they're going to say he made Fountain aren't they?

[@dalailama8845]

Wow

[@TimothyCherry-t5x]

Anderson Ridges

[@mikloslegrady965]

Duchamp appropriated the urinal without crediting the original “creator”, his friend Elsa vov Freytag-Loringhoven , except for one letter to his sister. The incriminating evidence was later published by Duchamp’s biographer, Francis Naumann: “April II [1917] My dear Suzanne- impossible d’écrire. (in the Parisian French of 1917, this meant ‘nothing much to write about’, re Dr. Glynn Thompson.) - I heard from Crotti that you were working hard. Tell me what you are making and if it’s not too difficult to send. Perhaps, I could have a show of your work in the month of October or November-next-here. But tell me what you are making- Tell this detail to the family: The Independents have opened here with immense success. One of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture it was not at all indecent-no reason for refusing it. The committee has decided to refuse to show this thing. I have handed in my resignation and it will be a bit of gossip of some value in New York- I would like to have a special exhibition of the people who were refused at the Independents-but that would be a redundancy! And the urinal would have been lonely- See you soon, Affect. Marcel." read more-->legrady.com/writing/history.html

[@ZakCrawley-m4b]

Murray Meadows

[@nrm55]

Some people love art as an aspirational activity, as something that humans can attempt to transcend our animal nature.and seek beauty and excellence. For such people, Duchamp and anti-art isittle more than an act of subversive juvenile delinquency.

[@renzo6490]

' I think that good conceptual art can exist. What bothers me is that so much attention and value is given to clearly bogus art and artists. Conceptual art was initially an attack on traditional visual arts calling them worthless, self indulgent decoration. I would like to see Sol Lewitt stand in front of Paul Cezanne and say that! What also bothers me is how Museums and art publications have relinquished their roles as guardians of quality. You do not see grand exhibitions of the work of Thomas Kinkade at The Metropolitan or at Boston's Museum of Fine Art. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aamYoX6eaLhljtk And rightly so. But to see The Tate give a build up to Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons is a sign that they would rather exhibit the flashy current craze that they think draws the public and which is, to me, an abdication of their function as custodians of quality. Conceptual art is, essentially, a 180 degree departure from what we have traditionally thought of as “art”. And by art, I mean the visual arts: painting, drawing, sculpture architecture etc. The big problem is that while the traditional visual arts have a millenniums long history, this new kid on the block does not. Sculpture has evolved from The Venus of Willendorf to the Great Sphinx, the Venus De Milo, Michelangelo's David up to Rodin, the Statue of Liberty and Alexander Calder. The arts of painting and drawing can be traced back to the cave paintings of Lascaux in France to The Sistine Chapel, Monet and Degas, Mark Rothko and beyond. And through all of the changes, these art forms have stayed essentially the same:making marks on paper, canvas, wood, plaster etc. and building up forms in three dimensions as sculpture and architecture. Along with the evolution of these art genres has developed a language and a set of criteria that form standards by which such pieces can be critiqued, evaluated and placed in historical context. And while some people might like the lurid landscapes of Thomas Kinkade, his paintings are not and should not be hung alongside the landscapes of Church, Cole, van Gogh, Cézanne and Thiebaud. There IS such a thing as bad art and we know what it looks like and why! It is called esthetics. This cannot be said of Conceptual art. All sorts of crappy, bogus and hare brained stuff is piled up or strewn across the floors of museums and exalted as art because no one knows or can know what is worthy and what is not. So you get pieces of blank white paper crumpled up in a ball, three basketballs suspended in a fish tank and cans of human excrement. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnympaCroqdgidk Here is Koons' own ArtSpeak explanation of his floating basketball 'concept' verbatim: “ This is an ultimate state of being. I wanted to play with people’s desires. They desire this equilibrium. They desire pre-birth. I was giving a definition of life and death. This is the eternal. This is what life is like, also, after death. Aspects of the eternal” Rather lofty goals for 3 basketballs suspended in a fish tank!! Welcome to the wonderful, wacky world of Conceptual art !

[@Methilde]

Marcel Duchamp one of the greatest artistic mystification. His first reals paintings were very poors.

[@_artorical_]

“L.H.O.O.Q. is a pun; the letters pronounced in French sound like ‘Elle a chaud au cul,’ ‘She is hot in the arse,’ or ‘She has a hot ass.’ ‘Avoir chaud au cul" is a vulgar expression implying that a woman has sexual restlessness. In a late interview, Duchamp gives a loose translation of L.H.O.O.Q. as ‘there is fire down below.’”

[@moonshinefilms]

Voice needs a little personality. If the the script was taken away, would this voice be able to say something?

[@mins63]

pov: u paid for premiere pro instead of wevideo

[@rewgordon9202]

"the epiphany of his life's work" lol

[@themarquis336]

In what universe did Rococo start in 1699? 🤣

[@cedarraine7829]

Poor Duchamp, sitting around playing chess

[@TioMaui]

Oh he started that art... ok

[@Ziqver]

There is the difference between academic artists, (I even used it as a serious joke before I saw this.) A non academic professional artist must do their best to keep on getting paid. An academic artist can just buy a toilet and call it art. In this case a urinal. Not saying I disagree with what is being said in this video. But I am not agreeing either.

[@craigandsnowwadam4511]

sometimes,.. we do E g y p t

[@johnkaplan1067]

oolala le cliché de merde comme seul les ricains savent le faire ,

[@mikekeyes6102]

Concepts are nothing but words. Concept = conceit

[@destinyforreal9744]

I do not like his art it is gross