I first became aware of Marcel Duchamp's work through art history lectures whilst at college between 1972 -76. These lectures were collectively entitled Climate of Ideas, looking back they provided a very appropriate context for discussing the works of artists and their art - not just narrow chronological life histories and similarly assessed paintings and sculptures examined in a linear way. These lectures embraced the time, place, technologies and politics etc in which artists worked.
Duchamp was interested in challenging perceptions, testing boundaries and provoking thought on art. His lifetime's work full of questions, a diverse range of artefacts, his pictorial language, less about style and more about ideas.
Duchamp's Large Glass or Nude Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even has been a favourite work of mine since I first became aware of it. An enigma in terms of title, materials, techniques, meaning.
For some time I have wanted to make a painterly response to the Large Glass. Please find a series of digital works I have made using the theme of Bachelors (depicted as Dressing Gowns) and the Bride surrounded by her Bachelors. Her Bachelors clothe her.
Posted by Gordon Coldwell on December 18th 2016