Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp is an artist who is best known for introducing the ready-made object into visual art, co-founding Dada and being a contributor with the Surrealists art movement. He also worked with cubism in paintings.  A ready-made object is something like where he might take a toilet and place it on pedastal and call it art. or some already made tangiable object and do something new with it.

Perhaps his greatest contribution, though, is that he helped transform the focus of art away from just being viewed visual but with using ones mind as well. He had a huge impact on the contemporary art world as well.
Like mentioned above though his most popular work besides dada/avant-garde is his ready mades which can be considered kinetic works. his famous pieces were The Large Glass and The Bicycle Wheel.
he was so influential to so many art movements and he gave the world so much more then we could of asked for. his work to me was inspiring because nobody had done anything remotely close to what he brought forth.