Saturday, 13 February 2010

The machine age to our time

After watching a clip of Marcel Duchamp, i came to the conclutsion that everything seems to come down to some sort of sexual innuendo or allegory. His window, and like the buildings mentioned in Bauhaus, can be seen as machines. The architechture of Bauhause movements are functional and built for purpose. Like Duchamps window, the background of the buildings change to whatever is neccessary or needed at the time. Thus the allegory differs on the scenario, yet the buildings or architecture still function as they are scientifically meant to, with reason and with explanation.

Machines are built in a way that resembles sexual activity. A small example would be the way pistons work in a car motor. Constantly thrusting in and out of a cylynder does indeed resemble the physical act. Duchamps window is a product of machine, if so the outcome. So to resemble the sexual act as a product of a machine allegorically resembles some functionality of the way we live today.

The window represents the profund love which we experience today with the machine-like functionality of the sexual precedure. Its scientific and can be explained and described the same as any kind of allegory or machine that exists. The process of being able to sleep with a woman is seen the duchamps window through allegorical means. The life force, or semen, is created through the grinding process and then spurted up a tube but meets a block were you just have to watch and observe and love. The same thing happens in architecture. The buildings are erected and meet a point where they need to be looked at and admired. The same as the women on the top half of Dechamps window.

This explanation is very raw and brief, as Dechamps modernist cubism, if so, i found quite difficult to come to terms with and link with Bauhaus. If anyone could help me with this i would be very appriciative as i found it rather confusing as you can see above.

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