Nude Descending a Staircase II, 1912 by Marcel Duchamp
Canvas Print - 17712-DUC
Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USAOriginal Size: 147 x 89.2 cm
Giclée Canvas Print | $49.98 USD
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Painting Information
"Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2," painted in 1912 by the iconoclastic Marcel Duchamp, is a tour de force of modern art that boldly deconstructs traditional representations of the human form. In this painting, Duchamp abandons the classical nude in favor of a fragmented, mechanized figure, capturing movement in a way that prefigures the dynamism of the 20th century.
The piece is a chaotic yet precisely orchestrated interplay of geometric forms and muted tones, evoking the simultaneous multiplicity of perspectives characteristic of Cubism, while also nodding to the chronophotographic studies of motion by Eadweard Muybridge. The cascading, ladder-like structure of the figure is a masterclass in the depiction of sequential motion. Each limb, each fragment of the torso, seems to pulse with energy as if caught in a perpetual state of transition.
Duchamp’s choice of a muted, almost monochromatic palette of ochres, browns, and blacks further emphasizes the mechanical nature of the descent, stripping away any sense of fleshly humanity and replacing it with an almost industrial aesthetic. The figure’s descent is not smooth but rather jerky and staccato, as if every muscle movement has been dissected and rendered in angular planes and sharp lines.
This painting was revolutionary for its time, stirring controversy at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. It confounded viewers who were unprepared for its radical departure from both the serene nudes of classical art and the emerging abstraction of Duchamp’s contemporaries. In "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2," Duchamp challenges us to reconsider not just the nude, but the very act of seeing, forcing us to grapple with the complexity and fragmentation of modern existence.
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