Workshop, Everyday Objects in Art. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain

Principal representative of the use of the everyday object as art.
Duchamp was one of the most revolutionary artists of the 20th century. He was the inventor of the "Ready Made"
It said that Duchamp was responcible, in part, for demolishing the dominance of painting over sculpture. Hole generations of artists since have sworn by his techniques. In 1915 he was said to have given up painting almost entirely. He began making ready made with a piece entitled "Bicycle Wheel" saying
"In 1913 I had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn.". This was a bicycle wheel attached to a stool.
In 1915 Duchamp went to New York and exhibited Fountain.
A Urinal on a plinth with the signature R.Mutt and dated.
These Ready mades held certain things in common and asked the same question
"What are the characteristics and conditions that define an object as a work of art?"

Duchamp made three changes to the object.
1) He put it on a plinth
2) He signed and dated it
3) He entered into an exhibition

So by all apperances it looks like a urinal but has many of the attributes of an artwork