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Άρθρο/Article: Duchamp’s Influence on Modern Art, by Sugandhjot Kaur,Paige Tapp, Nora Akcasu

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Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans, 51x 41 cm, 1962, © http://www.zimbio.com

[…] He coined the term "readymade" referring to the every day objects that aren't usually considered are but are art in the eyes of the artist himself such as the bottlerack made in 1914. Duchamp influenced modern artists such as Andy Warhol who sort of took the idea of readymades and instead made paintings from them. Warhol took the concept of every day objects or people and made them into paintings that people would easily recognize such as the Campbell's Tomato soup can. Duchamp also inspired Warhol's work in Pop art, using pop culture images merged together in an unconventional way[…]