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One must understand that no one person
or art movement was created solely due to Duchamp or his work. However, many artists, both throughout Duchamp's lifetime,
and even still today have modeled themselves, or artistic lifestyle after him. He is touted as the influencer of Abstract
expressionism, surrealism, bringing Dada to North America (specifically to New York), and even having a greater influence
to cubism (his work Nude Descending the staircase No.2).
As Tomkins states, His later works
would also influence other art movements such as Op Art, and the Pop Art movements which thrived in the 1960's. His works
on the Rotoreliefs teased and fooled the eye, with the science of Optics, this was the basis to the Optical art movements'
platform. To tease and fool the eye through the science of Optics (Tomkins, 172). Hence Op art = Optical art. Stright forward
right? One of the more famous artists of this movement is M.C. Escher who would free handidly create images without ruler,
or computer.
Around this time came
the art movement of Pop art, which celebrates the peculiar beauty of commonplace objects like those used in Duchamp's ready-mades
( Tomkins, 172). There are many famous artists associated to this art movement, such as Roy Litchenstien, and Andy Worhol
who himself revolutionised the idea of what art was painting everyday object that one never thinks about, but finds beautiful,
such as his famous Cambell's Soup Can (Tomkins, 169).
The list of artists influenced by Marcel Duchamp could
possibly be endless, including the not so famous ones, we know that he surely influenced a vast number of art movements, and
tore down boundries of the general art world (Fountain, 1917), and even the specific movemements themselves (Nude
Descending Staircase No. 2).
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