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Marcel Duchamp “There is no solution because there is no problem” It was the fifties and sixties when Duchamp was rediscovered and suddenly became identified as being a major point of reference for all the new art movements Cubism, Fauvism, Dadaism, and Surrealism of the 20th century. (Thames and Hudson, 15) For the longest time Duchamp's work was difficult to obtain and conveying the meanings of his work was an equally demanding task .It is here where the difficulty of understanding Duchamp and his work begins In a writing directed towards Duchamp, T.S. Eliot in his essay on "Traditional and the Individual Talent, writes “the more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are materials” (Cantz 43). This statement describes Duchamp very well yet very subtly. When focusing on the word transmute, which could easily be substituted for transform but instead transmute is exceptionally fitting in terms of Duchamp and his works. Transmute is the act of change in form, but if you deconstruct the word further, it is change and mute which is defined as silent or unspoken. Lo