"The moment art changed for ever"

Si vous avez l’occasion d’aller à Londres, vous voudrez peut-être visiter cette exposition au Tate Modern qui présente des oeuvres plutôt dérangeantes de Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia qui "were at the cutting edge of art in the first half of the twentieth century, and made a lasting impression on modern and contemporary art.  Duchamp invented the concept of the ‘readymade’: presenting an everyday object as an artwork, Man Ray pioneered avant-garde photographic and film techniques and Picabia’s use of kitsch, popular or low-brow imagery in his paintings undermined artistic conventions.

Their shared outlook on life and art, with a taste for jokes, irony and the erotic, forged a friendship that provided support and inspiration. At the heart of the Dada movement and moving in the same artistic circles, they discussed ideas and collaborated, echoing and responding to each other’s works. Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia explores their affinities and parallels, uncovering a shared approach to questioning the nature of art." (from the site of the exhibition)

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/duchampmanraypicabia/explore.shtm

Voyez aussi cette crituqe dans Time Magazine: "Marcel Duchamp, anything goes"

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1717550,00.html

Vous pouvez tuiliser des sites pour preparer une sequence sur l’art moderne pour des étudiants intéressés par l’art ou les débats, niveau B1 + minimum. Cette séquence vous amènera à présenter différents artistes pour comparer leur style, puis vous pourrez organiser un débat sur ce qu’est l’art et jusqu’où un artiste peut aller…

Voici quelques suggestions pour voir des œuvres d’autres artistes :

Basquiat

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1039743,00.html?iid=sph[...]

Roy Lichtenstein (who also painted the Cathedral of Rouen)

http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=172

http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/

Pages for teachers and students from the Whitney Museum in New York

http://whitney.org/learning/

and pages from the MOMA in New York (with the online exhibition, games for primary school or high school students (RED),  and resources for teachers (Modern teachers)

http://www.moma.org/education/multimedia.html

Wikipedia's page about modern art, with useful links :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art