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Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (French:
Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) is a 1912 painting by
Marcel Duchamp.
In the composition, Duchamp depicted motion by successive superimposed images, similar to stroboscopic motion photography. The painting shows elements of both the
Cubist and
Futurist styles. Duchamp also recognized the influence of the stop-motion photography of
Étienne-Jules Marey.
Duchamp first submitted the work to appear in a Cubist show at the
Salon des Indépendants in Paris, but jurist
Albert Gleizes asked Duchamp's brothers,
Jacques Villon and
Raymond Duchamp-Villon, to have him voluntarily withdraw the painting, or paint over the title that he'd painted on the work and rename it something else.
Of the incident he recalled,
» I said nothing to my brothers. But I went immediately to the show and took my painting home in a taxi. It was really a turning point in my life, I can assure you. I saw that I wouldn't be very much interested in groups after that.
He submitted the painting to the 1913
Armory Show in New York City where Americans, accustomed to realistic art, were scandalized.
Julian Street, an art critic for the
New York Times wrote that the work resembled "an explosion in a shingle factory," and cartoonists satirized the piece. It spawned dozens of parodies in the years that followed.
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 is on permanent exhibition at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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