{"id":3663,"date":"2018-03-27T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2018-03-27T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T19:06:17","slug":"fountain-the-blurred-boundary-between-art-and-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/fountain-the-blurred-boundary-between-art-and-everyday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Fountain &#8212; the blurred boundary between art and everyday life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ae4108191e4aebb09a977838d87355b8_hd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3664\" src=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ae4108191e4aebb09a977838d87355b8_hd-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ae4108191e4aebb09a977838d87355b8_hd-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ae4108191e4aebb09a977838d87355b8_hd.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fountain is a 1917 work produced by Marcel Duchamp, who was know as the vanguard of modern art and responsible for revolutionary development in multiple art forms.\u00a0The popular version of this art piece&#8217;s creation is that Duchamp\u00a0purchased a standard Bedfordshire model urinal from the J. L. Mott Iron Works. He brought the urinal to his studio and reoriented it to a position 90 degrees from its normal position of use, and wrote on it, &#8220;R. Mutt 1917&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that an urinal could be brought to an exhibition and be viewed as one of the most important piece of art work of all time shocked me. Initially I feel this is an epitome of over interpretation. But after some researches and thoughts, I realized its significance in expressing &#8220;anti-logic&#8221;\u00a0 against the traditional aesthetic philosophy and making a firm statement that every authority can be overthrown by\u00a0placing\u00a0a mundane\u00a0object in an art gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fountain is a 1917 work produced by Marcel Duchamp, who was know as the vanguard of modern art and responsible for revolutionary development in multiple art forms.\u00a0The popular version of this art piece&#8217;s creation is that Duchamp\u00a0purchased a standard Bedfordshire model urinal from the J. L. Mott Iron Works. He brought the urinal to his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/fountain-the-blurred-boundary-between-art-and-everyday-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fountain &#8212; the blurred boundary between art and everyday life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3169,"featured_media":3664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2607],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}