Nine Malic Moulds

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Nine Malic Moulds is a component of Marcel Duchamp’s avant-garde artwork "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even," representing abstracted male figures in a mechanistic, symbolic arrangement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork component
pictorial motif
alsoKnownAs Les neuf moules mâlics
Nine Malic Molds
linked to: Nine Malic Moulds
arrangement linear sequence
artHistoricalContext early 20th-century avant-garde
artMovement Conceptual art
Dada
Surrealism
associatedTheme gender roles
mechanization of the body
sexuality
associatedWithArtist Marcel Duchamp’s bachelor imagery
linked to: Duchamp readymades
belongsToSeries iconographic elements of The Large Glass
colorCharacteristic brownish silhouettes
creator Marcel Duchamp
dateOfCreation 1915–1923
depicts abstracted silhouettes
mechanistic forms
documentedIn Duchamp’s Green Box notes
linked to: Duchamp readymades
hasArtisticFunction structuring the lower register of the composition
hasInterpretation allegory of frustrated desire
critique of traditional masculinity
hasNumberOfElements 9
hasRoleInNarrative visualizing the nine bachelors
iconographicLevel bachelor apparatus
influencedBy industrial design
machine aesthetics
isComponentOf lower panel of The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
languageOfTitle French
locatedInWork right side of the lower glass panel
materialSupport glass
medium oil and lead wire on glass
orientation vertical forms
partOf The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
positionRelativeTo below the Bride in The Large Glass
relatedConcept erotic machinery
mechanomorphic imagery
relatedWork The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
The Large Glass
represents bachelors
male figures
symbolizes erotic pursuit of the Bride
male desire
usesFormalStrategy diagrammatic representation
transparent layering on glass

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Nine Malic Moulds alsoKnownAs Nine Malic Molds
linked to: Nine Malic Moulds