Retinal art
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Retinal art said to have been originated by Marcel Duchamp, referring to art whose appeal is mainly or exclusively to the eye rather than to the mind.
As of 2013, it is difficult to trace who exactly coined the phrase retinal art.
The closest thing to be found is an interview from 1946 in which Duchamp states:
- “I was interested in ideas – not merely in visual products, I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.”
- --interview with James Johnson Sweeney" in "Eleven Europeans in America"
The excerpt reads in full:
- "Futurism was an impressionism of the mechanical world. It was strictly a continuation of the impressionist movement. I was not interested in that. I wanted to get away from the physical aspect of painting. I was much more interested in recreating ideas in painting. ... I was interested in ideas -not merely in visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind. ... In fact until the last hundred years all painting had been literary or religious: it had all been at the service of the mind. This characteristic was lost little by little during the last century. ... Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude. ... It was a way to get out of a state of mind -to avoid being influenced by one's immediate environment, or by the past: to get away from cliches -to get free. ... Dada was very serviceable as a purgative. ... There was no thought of anything beyond the physical side of painting. No notion of freedom was taught. No philosophical outlook was introduced. ... I thought of art on a broader scale. There were discussions at the time of the fourth dimension and of non-Euclidean geometry. But most views of it were amateurish. ... I felt that as a painter it was much better to be influenced by a writer than by another painter. ... This is the direction in which art should turn: to an intellectual expression, rather than to an animal expression. I'm sick of the expression 'bete comme un peintre' -stupid as a painter."
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