![]() ![]() I’m a frequent visitor to Tate Modern, and whenever I look at Duchamp’s Fountain I’m struck by how esthetically pleasing the form of Fountain is. ![]() The humour partly resides in the fact that it’s unusual to see a spider where you don’t expect to see one (in an artwork), but at the same time the spider is exactly where you’d expect to see one (trapped in a piece of bathroom sanitary ware). ![]() The spider hopefully adds an extra touch of humour to a work that is already humourous. In this work a spider is trapped in the pissoir in the same way that spiders are trapped in baths. The version of Fountain in the image is in Tate Modern in London (Duchamp created several versions of the work using different pissoirs. Fountain is a ready-made in the form of a pissoir. April 2023.Ī digital image based on Marcel Duchamp’s Dada artwork, Fountain. Contemporary Dada: Duchamp Fountain with Spider Digital image. ![]()
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