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    Surrealist prankster. Marcel Mariën was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1920. He was a single child from a poor family. At the age of fifteen, Mariën left school to...
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  • whereas Étrécissements are a reductive method. This was first employed by Marcel Mariën in the 1950s. The results are achieved by the cutting away of parts...
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    alongside his brother Paul and fellow Surrealist and "surrogate son" Marcel Mariën, to whom had fallen the task of selling the forgeries. At the end of...
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    As a result, much of their art was intentionally amusing. One example is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), an inverted urinal signed "R. Mutt". This became...
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  • editor of Smith's Weekly Joseph Marien (1900–1950), Belgian Olympic runner Marien Oulton Dreyer (1911–1980) Marcel Mariën (1920–1993), Belgian surrealist...
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    perhaps identical, method are called etrécissements by Marcel Mariën from a method first explored by Mariën. Surrealist games such as parallel collage use collective...
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    Mesens, Louis Scutenaire, Irène Hamoir Scutenaire, Paul Colinet and Marcel Mariën. René and Georgette moved in 1954 to a bigger villa in Schaerbeek, which...
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  • During this period she formed enduring friendships with, among others, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, and John Cage. She also designed sets and costumes...
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  • Léger's Ballet Mécanique (1924), Jean Renoir's La Fille de l'Eau (1924), Marcel Duchamp's Anemic Cinema (1926), Jean Epstein's Fall of the House of Usher...
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    Jacqueline Lamba Dora Maar Conroy Maddox René Magritte Georges Malkine Marcel Mariën André Masson Roberto Matta Mikuláš Medek Oscar Mellor John Melville...
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