Marcel Duchamp L.H.O.O.Q 1919

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"With so much ado about his urinals and wheels, it’s easy to forget that Marcel Duchamp was also an exceptional painter. But Duchamp rejected painting. He rejected, that is, his talent. The fact that an exceptional painter rejected painting -- and ultimately may even have rejected art -- is precisely what lends Duchamp’s work its disconcerting gravity."