Einstein, like Duchamp (Fig. 10), lived the first decades of 20th century and those were his most productive years. Although they revolutionized science and art respectively there is no historical evidence that could relate them to each other. Linda Henderson states in both Duchamp in Context and The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art that connecting Duchamp’s or any other modernist work with Einstein is a “commonplace” art critics like her have been fighting for decades.
Non-Euclidean Geometry and identifying time with the fourth dimension where central ideas in Einstein theories and the Equivalence Principle was a essential step for him to achieve the General Relativity Theory.