The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even

From 1915 to 1923 Duchamp worked on creating The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even very carefully throughout the years. The piece was executed on two planes of glass using materials of lead foil, fuss wire, and dust. Duchamp made lots of notes and studies and complex theories about how the piece works. He published the notes and studies as The Green Box. The notes describe his piece depicting the "Bride", thats found in the upper panel, and her nine "Bachelors" found in a gathering in the lower panel around lots of mechanical devices having erratic encounters. The Bride is very mechanical looking like shadings of geometric forms. She is connected to her halo with a cloudy form stretching across the top. There is a chocolate grinder that contains three drum- like forms around a circular platform with three small legs that are supporting her structure. " The Large Glass is a picture of the unseen forces that shape human erotic activity- the realm of ego, desires, and other mysteries"(Stafford). Duchamp calls the boundary between the bride and her Bachelors "the garment of the bride" which might refer to her clothing but also to the boundary of her body. The Glider introduces chances where the bachelors slide back and forth between them and the Bride. The Scissors that are powered by two huge blades are for threatening the Eyewitnesses. Duchamps art is not simply interpreted considering the notes and diagrams he made for his project as a guidebook actually complicates it more. He describes elements that were not in the final version and don't seem to exist.

I appreciate the creativity, brilliance, and dedication that went into this piece. I find the piece so interesting that makes me find me find the artist more interesting. Yes the piece is complex and deep but that only reflects the artist mind which is now more interesting to me. I think anyone has the capacity of inventing a creative process like Duchamp you just have to have the patience and a really good since of realty to get abstract minded. It got the recognition because it was purely original and and complex. Duchamps piece can be looked at in several different ways, as for me I see this only being a visual interpretation of the human nature.