MARCEL DUCHAMP Synonyms

• any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

• radically new or original

• an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

• a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty

• a destroyer of images used in religious worship

• someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

• an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it

• independent in behavior or thought

• being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of

• an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

• something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

• preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

• (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary

• not derived or copied or translated from something else

• an artist who paints

• a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint

• a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)

• large American feline resembling a lion

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

• open up an area or prepare a way

• take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

• open up and explore a new area

• a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts

• made for purchase and immediate use

• a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase

• repeated regularly without thought or originality

• commercially produced; not homemade

• a faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus

• an artist who creates sculptures

• someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible

• a person with unusual powers of foresight

• not practical or realizable; speculative

• French artist who immigrated to the United States; a leader in the dada movement in New York City; was first to exhibit commonplace objects as art (1887-1968)