![]() According to Duchamp, Cubists such as Albert Gleizes found that his nude wasn't quite in line with what they had already investigated. Armory Show, 1913, the Cubist room, with works by Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Albert Gleizes, Marcel Duchamp and Alexander Archipenkoĭuchamp's brothers, Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sent by the hanging committee, asked him to voluntarily withdraw the painting, or paint over the title and rename it something else. This catalogue revealed the title of the painting to the general public for the first time, even though the painting itself would be absent from the exhibition. ![]() It appeared under the number 1001 of the catalogue, entitled simply Nu descendant l'escalier, not Nu descendant un escalier n° 2. ĭuchamp submitted the work to appear with the Cubists at the 28th exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, Paris, 25 March through. Duchamp also recognized the influence of the chronophotography of Étienne-Jules Marey and others, particularly Muybridge's Woman Walking Downstairs from his 1887 picture series, published as The Human Figure in Motion. In the composition, Duchamp depicts motion by successive superimposed images, similar to stroboscopic motion photography. The painting combines elements of both the Cubist and Futurist movements. it seemed scandalous." Background Modern GIF of Eadweard Muybridge: Woman Walking Downstairs – 1887 Corresponding still photos by Eadweard Muybridge One just doesn't do a nude woman coming down the stairs. "What contributed to the interest provoked by the canvas was its title. Shortly before his unexpected death in 1967, in an interview with Pierre Cabanne, Duchamp commented on the surprising success of Nude Descending a Staircase, No. The question of whether the figure represents a human body remains unanswered the figure provides no clues to its age, individuality, or character, while the gender of "nu" is male. At the bottom left Duchamp placed the title "NU DESCENDANT UN ESCALIER" in block letters, which may or may not be related to the work. The overall warm, monochrome bright palette ranges from yellow ochre to dark, almost black tones. ![]() The center of the image is an amalgam of light and dark, that becomes more piqued approaching the edges. At the edges of the picture, the steps are indicated in darker colors. The movement seems to be rotated counterclockwise from the upper left to the lower right corner, where the gradient of the apparently frozen sequence corresponding to the bottom right to top left dark, respectively, becomes more transparent, the fading of which is apparently intended to simulate the "older" section. Dark outlines limit the contours of the body while serving as motion lines that emphasize the dynamics of the moving figure, while the accented arcs of the dotted lines seem to suggest a thrusting pelvic motion. The discernible "body parts" of the figure are composed of nested, conical and cylindrical abstract elements, assembled together in such a way as to suggest rhythm and convey the movement of the figure merging into itself. The work, an oil painting on canvas with dimensions of 147 cm × 89.2 cm (57.9 in × 35.1 in) in portrait, seemingly depicts a figure demonstrating an abstract movement in its ochres and browns. Description Étienne-Jules Marey: Man Walking, 1890-91 It is now in the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2 was reproduced by Guillaume Apollinaire in his 1913 book, Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques. The painting was subsequently shown, and ridiculed, at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City. It was then exhibited with the Cubists at Galeries Dalmau's Exposició d'Art Cubista, in Barcelona, 20 April–. Before its first presentation at the 1912 Salon des Indépendants in Paris it was rejected by the Cubists as being too Futurist. ![]() The work is widely regarded as a Modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time. 2 (French: Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) is a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp. Painting by Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase, No.
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