Duchamp's piece was not controversial because of its simplistic nature, nor because of its strangeness: it was controversial because he had not made it himself. People were very against this idea because they believed that art was something made and not found. Duchamp's “ready-made” art, which always consisted of mass-produced objects made by machines, was offensive to them and so they rejected it wholeheartedly. Unlike Fountain, Kandinski's Little Pleasures was not rejected because of the nature of its "creation", it was rejected because people had never before seen art with such a lack of recognizable form. Before Kandinski, art had always had representations of things in life, and Little Pleasures seemed almost entirely arbitrary to them, with no connection to the world in which they lived. As such, both pieces were initially denied the title of “art” because society was unable to break with tradition and admire something