"You've just killed a moose. Hungry you've a hankering for nothing quite as much as some hot soup, flavored perhaps with wild leeks whose flat leaves you see wavering nearby. Why not take the sharp end of a dead limb and scoop a small hole in the ground? Why not line this concavity with a chunk of fresh hide? Then after adding the water and other ingredients, why not let a few hot clean stones do your cooking while you finish dressing out the animal?"
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Marcel Duchamp stands as one of the most radical and influential figures in twentieth-century art, not because of the volume of his work but because of the way he dismantled the very definition of art itself. Trained as a painter in the Cubist and Fauvist circles of Paris, Duchamp quickly became disillusioned with the idea of art as mere visual pleasure. His 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 scandalized audiences and marked the beginning of his lifelong commitment to challenging aesthetic convention.
His true genius emerged in the invention of the readymade: ordinary manufactured objects recontextualized as art through the artist’s choice. A bottle rack, a snow shovel, or most famously, a porcelain urinal signed “R. Mutt” and titled Fountain (1917), became artworks not through craftsmanship but through concept. In this gesture, Duchamp shifted the locus of art from the eye to the mind, asserting that the idea could be more important than the object. This single innovation dismantled centuries of tradition and paved the way for conceptual art, Pop art, and postmodernism.
Duchamp’s brilliance also lay in his wit and subversion. He cultivated irony and play, whether in his alter ego “Rrose Sélavy,” his cryptic wordplay, or his manipulation of chance operations. He blurred boundaries between art and life, seriousness and humor, originality and reproduction. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Duchamp was less interested in creating masterpieces than in questioning the very conditions under which art exists.
By undermining the sanctity of the art object, Duchamp liberated generations of artists to think beyond technique, medium, and market. His work asked: Who decides what art is? Where does meaning come from? In refusing to settle for easy answers, Duchamp transformed art into a field of infinite possibility, making him one of the true geniuses of modern culture.
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Star Wars: Darth Vader (2020) #2 Cover Art (Empire Strikes Back 40th Anniversary Variant by Chris Sprouse)
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I would like to invite all the spacially unaware people to stay home when I go to the grocery store
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If this pops up on your feed, I wish you unconditional love, infinite happiness, unlimited health, and massive success✨
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Tree Canopy at Night - Christopher Burk , 2025.
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This map's been a long time coming, ever since I made the Cursed City megamap last year, I've wanted to do another very large map that can capture some of the unbroken exploration and discovery opportunities from games like Baldur's Gate 3, Breath of the Wild, or Elden Ring. In that effort, I've been doing larger maps every month instead of lots of "little" 30x30 maps, and by joining those together with some careful stitching and editing, I can make stuff like this. I hope you enjoy peopling it with monsters, treasure, and creepy encounters for players to discover together.
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