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... Marcel had wanted to become an artist. He attended Lycee Corneille where he undertook a formal education. In 1904, having completing his schooling Duchamp went to Paris to join his brothers. Duchamp felt compelled under the new avant-garde movement to sketch and draw the industrial and progressive changes transforming Paris at the time and spent a great deal of time mastering his art. He enrolled in Academie Julian and later applied to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in which he was unsuccessful in a securing a place. Following his unsuccessful attempt at joining the elite art school, he started to spend more time with his brother who was a caricaturist. His brother introduced him to a number of influential caricaturists and humorists. 'The work of this group spanned two key aspects of French culture and society: a philosophical interest in the comic and a fascination with the darker side of life ...