The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
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The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, also known as The Large Glass, is a complex artwork by Marcel Duchamp. Created between 1913 and 1923, it moved away from traditional painting, which Duchamp called "retinal art," and instead adopted principles of industrial design. The piece is often described as a symbolic blueprint of a machine, exploring themes of man, woman, and love.
Duchamp's approach was revolutionary, challenging conventional aesthetic standards and paving the way for future art movements like Dada and Surrealism. He famously declared his farewell to painting after creating Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), focusing instead on his "ready-mades" and conceptual art, which questioned the very definition of art itself.12
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