Apolinère Enameled was painted in 1916–17 by Marcel Duchamp, as a heavily altered version of an advertisement for paint ("Sapolin Enamel").[1] The picture depicts a girl painting a bed-frame with white enamelled paint. The depiction of the frame deliberately includes conflicting perspective lines, to produce an impossible object. To emphasise the deliberate impossibility of the shape, a piece of the frame is missing. The piece is sometimes referred to as Duchamp's "impossible bed" painting.
| Apolinère Enameled | |
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| Artist | Marcel Duchamp |
| Year | 1916-17 |
| Medium | Gouache and graphite on painted tin, mounted on cardboard |
| Dimensions | 24.4 cm × 34 cm (9.6 in × 13 in) |
| Location | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| Accession | 1950-134-73 |
Apolinère is a play-on-words referencing the poet, writer and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, a close associate of Duchamp during the Cubist adventure.[1] Apollinaire wrote about Duchamp (and others) in his book The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations of 1913.[2]
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edit- ^ a b Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Apolinère Enameled". Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- ^ Herschel Browning Chipp, Peter Selz, Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, University of California Press, 1968, pp. 221–248, ISBN 0-520-01450-2
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