{"id":5626,"date":"2023-04-28T19:42:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T19:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:47:32","slug":"dada-and-humour-duchamp-fountain-with-added-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/dada-and-humour-duchamp-fountain-with-added-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Dada and humour: Duchamp Fountain with added spider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-dada-duchamp-fountain-spider.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary dada \u2013 Duchamp Fountain with spider\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contemporary Dada:  Duchamp Fountain with Spider<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digital image.     April 2023.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A digital image based on Marcel Duchamp&#8217;s Dada artwork, Fountain. Fountain is a ready-made in the form of a pissoir. The version of Fountain in the image is in Tate Modern in London (Duchamp created several versions of the work using different pissoirs. The original version no longer exists). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this work a spider is trapped in the pissoir in the same way that spiders are trapped in baths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spider hopefully adds an extra touch of humour to a work that is already humourous. The humour partly resides in the fact that it&#8217;s unusual to see a spider where you don&#8217;t expect to see one (in an artwork), but at the same time the spider is exactly where you&#8217;d expect to see one (trapped in a piece of bathroom sanitary ware).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a frequent visitor to Tate Modern, and whenever I look at Duchamp&#8217;s Fountain I&#8217;m struck by how esthetically  pleasing the form of Fountain is.  I&#8217;m not sure whether or not Duchamp thought this himself or whether he chose the pissoir with no esthetic considerations involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary Dada: Duchamp Fountain with Spider Digital image. April 2023. A digital image based on Marcel Duchamp&#8217;s Dada artwork, Fountain. Fountain is a ready-made in the form of a pissoir. The version of Fountain in the image is in Tate Modern in London (Duchamp created several versions of the work using different pissoirs. The original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,86],"tags":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10309,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/10309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}