Yeah. I made mine for $30. And the color is strikingly accurate. Of course it's not as deep, but I guess that's kind of the point of this painting. I'm not that deep myself. I like the idea of making a copy of something that you have to see in real life to understand. Because you're almost never going to. You can look at pictures on the internet and the pictures side by side on the same monitor are different. So nobody knows if mine is close enough to the real thing. And that's awesome. Because functionally there is no real thing for most people.
The artist is a not great creator—Duchamp went shopping at a plumbing store. The artwork is not a special object—it was mass-produced in a factory. The experience of art is not exciting and ennobling—at best it is puzzling and mostly leaves one with a sense of distaste. But over and above that, Duchamp did not select just any ready-made object to display. In selecting the urinal, his message was clear: Art is something you piss on.
