Duchamp's play was not controversial because of its simplistic nature, nor its strangeness - it was controversial because he did not carried out himself. People were very opposed to this idea because they believed that art was something made and not found. Duchamp's "ready-made" art, which always consisted of mass-produced, machine-made objects, was offensive to them and so they rejected it without reservation. Unlike Fountain, Kandinski's Little Pleasures was not rejected because of the nature of its "creation", it was rejected because people had never seen art before with such a lack of recognizable forms . Before Kandinski, art had always had representations of things in life, and the Little Pleasures seemed almost completely arbitrary to them, without any connection to the world in which they lived. As such, both works were initially denied the title "art" because society was unable to break with tradition and admire something