Marcel Duchamp's In Advance of a Broken Arm is a very odd piece. He went to the store, bought this shovel, titled it, and put it in a gallery. Something that any one of us could have done. It is worth so much money because of the name that it is on it. This changed the way many people thought about art. Are you still the artist if you did not do the craftsmanship? It is not that uncommon to have someone delegating what to do and having others create it. That is how Dale Chihuly creates all of his pieces. He tell everyone else what to do. He has the idea and shares it with everyone else. Pieces like this are called readymades. A readymade is "an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist." This readymade is extremely interesting because of the title. It makes everyone think what the intent of the artist was. Why did he make this? What was he trying to say? I think this a great piece because something so simple can generate so much thought.
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