Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel Duchamp was born in Normandy in southern France in 1887 he went back and forth through Europe and the United States for the majority of his life. One of his most important works was nude descending the stairs. He was big in the cubism movement. He loved to incorporate motion and the idea of trickery in his art. He love to use preexisting objects. His most famous one is the bicycle wheel the urinal.