two-month stay in Germany except that the friend he visited was intent on showing him the sights and the nightlife.
Later that year he travelled with Picabia, Apollinaire and Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia through the Jura mountains, an adventure that Buffet-Picabia described as one of their “forays of demoralization, which were also forays of witticism and clownery … the disintegration of the concept of art.” Duchamp’s notes from the trip avoid logic and sense, and have a surrealistic, mythical connotation.
Duchamp painted few canvases after 1912, and in those he did, he attempted to remove “painterly” effects, and instead to use a technical drawing approach.
His broad interests led him to an exhibition of aviation technology during this period, after which Duchamp said to his friend Constantin Brancusi, “Painting is washed up. Who will ever