Duchamp

In "The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors" the piece is suppose to be taken in visually and verbally. It is referred to as "anti-retinal" in which the painting is suppose to be on the surface of the mind. At first glance the piece to me seemed random and unexplainable by the title. In the notes in the Green Box the mechanical nature of the piece really comes into view. The representations of how the top panel of the bride is stripped and relates to the bottom panel of the bachelors can only be seen when the Green Notes are read. Two things that really bother me about the notes in the Green box is that there are elements that were not in the piece and that the movement can be confused. The elements that seemed to play a key part in the mechanism of the action of the bride and the bachelors are not present, such as the "splash" along with other movement elements. It seems like Duchamp relays the unfinished details in the Green Notes as almost an apology for not actually finishing the piece. Also on the Duchamp website it really pulls together how all the parts are suppose to move, then and only then did I feel like I could see what was going on. (http://www.p22.com/projects/duchamp.html)