Marcel Duchamp vs. Wassily Kandinsky
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Marcel Duchamp
1887 – 1968
Marcel Duchamp was a French-American artist best known for pioneering conceptual art and introducing ready-made objects such as his infamous urinal titled "Fountain".
"All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusi…"
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 – 1944
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies at the age of 30.
"If until now colour and form were used as inner agents, it was mainly done subconsciously. The subordination of composition to geometrical form is no new idea .…"