Marcel Duchamp
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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French artist, used in the Art scene, to create the Modernist Art movement in Montparnasse Paris and Greenwich Village with Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray, Edgard Varèse, the Arensberg family, Peggy Guggenheim and Theosophist Beatrice Wood (Hollywood High School, inspiration for Rose DeWitt in James Cameron's Titanic, played by Kate Winslet). The Theosophists used the dissociation techniques of yoga (leaving the body to become demonically possessed). He was influenced by the Symbolists (rosicrucian Joséphin Péladan). Modernism was aimed at a further breakdown of society and moral degradation (start of pop culture). |
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Like his brother Jacques Villon he was trained at Académie Julian.
He made a parody of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (Amon Isis, androgynous Baphomet) and pushed the transgender agenda with alter ego Rrose Sélavy.
The Montparnasse art scene in Paris was a recreation of Bohemian Dionysian culture of trance and decadence. He played chess with Man Ray and was a friend of Samuel Beckett.
The Dada trend was spread in collaboration with the art scene of Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich (Hugo Ball, part of the OTO Monte Verita community with Carl Jung, Francis Picabia, marxist Henri Lefebrve).
He published in The Little Review of George Gurdjieff's student Jane Heap with Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Emma Goldman, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, André Breton, Gertrude Stein).
Jesuit Marshall McLuhan published the Mechanical Bride: The Folklore of Industrial Man in 1951 (era of Black Dahlia media ritual, Project Bluebird, Artichoke and MK Ultra with Scottish-Canadian psychiatrist Ewen Cameron) about the merging of sex and technology in advertisement, referring to a work of Duchamp (woman as vessel for a demon through machines). It was published by Vanguard Press (Saul Bellow of NY Intellectuals, Pierre Bouille's Planet of the Apes, Ernest Hemingway, GB Shaw, Oscar Wilde).
He was photographed by Richard Avedon (jewish, The New School, Harper's Bazaar, photo shoots with Jackie Kennedy, Robert Oppenheimer, Samuel Beckett, Natassja Kinski and Brooke Shields).
He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists funded by Gertrude Vanderbilt.
He participated in the London International Surrealist Exhibition of Herbert Read (Eranos), André Breton, Man Ray and Roland Penrose in London, with Hans Arp, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Juan Miro, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso.
He worked with Peggy Guggenheim.
Edgard Varèse performed at The Village Gate, opened in 1958 (Knight of Malta Miles Davis, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, Woody Allen, Nina Simone, Velvet Underground).
Astrological chart
born 7/28/1887, date Jackie Kennedy, Alexis Tsipras, Hugo Chavez.
Dom: Scorpio (Death), Leo, Virgo - Moon, Pluto, Sun.
died 10/2/1968, date d Jack Parsons.