Pense bete marcel broodthaers biography

Marcel Broodthaers (28 January – 28 January ) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker, and visual artist.

Early life

Broodthaers was born on 28 January in Brussels, Belgium.^[1]

Career

Broodthaers was associated with the Groupe Surréaliste-revolutionnaire from ^{[citation needed]}

Art

After spending 20 years in poverty as a struggling poet,^[2] at the end of he decided to become an artist and began to make objects.^[3] He performed the symbolic act of embedding fifty unsold copies of his book of poems Pense-Bête in plaster, creating his first art object.

Marcel broodthaers installation art

Marcel broodthaers installation art

Marcel broodthaers musée d art moderne

Marcel broodthaers department of eagles

Marcel broodthaers tate

Marcel broodthaers un coup de dés

That same year, , for his first exhibition, he wrote an infamous introduction that was printed onto pages cut from magazines that doubled as the exhibition's public announcement:

"I, too, wondered whether I could not sell something and succeed in life.

For some time I had been no good at anything. I am forty years old Finally the idea of inventing something insi