Like many of the artists of his day, Marcel Duchamp shared a common interest in sexual imagery. With new philosophical works, like those of Freud, much art became a study centered on the sexes. Many of the works Duchamp created contained allusions to “virgins,” “brides,” “bachelors,” and in the early fifties created plaster casts which recalled male and female genitalia. Perhaps the most ardently sex-driven work of Duchamp was a piece entitled Faulty Landscape. The piece was created by throwing seminal fluid at a black satin canvas in response to the frustration he felt over Maria Martin; a married woman whom he could not have.

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