Seeking an alternative to representing objects in paint, Duchamp began presenting objects themselves as art. He selected mass-produced, commercially available, often utilitarian objects, designating them as art and giving them titles.

The art of the movement began primarily as performance art, but eventually spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture.

Anamorphic art is art that appears distorted upon first glance. When that same piece of art is viewed from a particular angle, or with a mirror or lens, the image becomes “normal”. There are several types of anamorphic art, and two types that use mirrors. Conical (cone) anamorphisms views an image from the top down.