Marcel Duchamp

Born Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp in France in 1887, Marcel Duchamp would become a pivotal figure in 20th-century art, radically questioning traditional notions of beauty and artistic creation. His family was full of artists, including his brothers Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and his sister Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti. He studied briefly at the Académie Julian but found more practical skills working for a printer, which would later inform his artistic practice. Duch…