The Treachery of Urinals

What happens when two of the most important images of the 20th Century collide? Duchamp's Fountain challenged the very nature of art and introduced the idea of conceptual art. Magritte's The Treachery of Images is a surrealist masterpiece that explores the different between what is real and what is art. The Treachery of Urinals is an art mash-up that brings these two seminal pieces together.
The text, Ceci n'est pas un fontaine (This is not a Fountain), questions what the image is. In Magritte's original Treachery, the pipe was not a pipe, it was a picture of a pipe. However Duchamp's Fountain was not a fountain but a urinal that was turned onto its side and called a fountain. So not only is it not a fountain but an image of a fountain but the it not an image of a fountain either.
See also The Treachery of Popes

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