Without Lifting A Finger

Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Avant Garde movement in the United States; she founded The Blind Man magazine in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1916. [1] She had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress. She later worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the "Mama of Dada." She partially inspired the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron 's 1997 film, Titanic after the director read Wood's autobiography while developing the film. Beatrice Wood died nine days after her 105th birthday in Ojai, California . [From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Wood ] *** 



Alexina "Teeny" Duchamp (January 6, 1906 – December 20, 1995) was the wife of Pierre Matisse , daughter-in-law of artist Henri Matisse , and second wife of artist and chess player Marcel Duchamp . Background [ edit ] She was born Alexina Sattler in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1906. The youngest daughter of prominent surgeon Robert Sattler, Alexina was nicknamed "Teeny" by her mother Agnes Mitchell because of her low birth weight .   Paris and marriage to Pierre Matisse [ edit ] Sattler at first thought of becoming an artist and went to Paris in 1921, where for a time she studied sculpture with Constantin Brâncuși at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. [1] She first met Marcel Duchamp in 1923 at a ball given in her honor by American sculptor Mariette Benedict Mills, the mother of a close friend. In 1929 Teeny married Pierre Matisse , an art dealer and the youngest son of Fauve artist Henri Matisse . They had three children: Jacqueline, Paul , and...

The "real thing" wasn't there (except in miniature), so I decided to make my own. The readymade (readypic) was in the Norton Simon's john. * 

I was interested in the Duchamp more than the Pop. *                               

Been there before. Duchamp to Pop attracted me this time. Per usual, I tried to look at old things in a new way and in new things I rolled the dice. Something like that. *   

Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" [From Wikimedia Commons]