Nude Descending a Staircase

American  

noun

1. a painting (1912) by Marcel Duchamp.

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Example Sentences

More characteristic of the artist’s style, though, is the multipart “Descending,” which was inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2,” a 1912 canvas that’s far from naturalistic.

From Washington Post

Most famously, Marcel Duchamp reprised his “Nude Descending a Staircase,” the Cubist-influenced portrait of a body in motion that scandalized New York at the 1913 Armory Show.

From New York Times

The very first shot in a Hitchcock movie, “The Pleasure Garden,” features the bare legs of dancers running down a spiral staircase, which White ties to Duchamp’s painting “Nude Descending a Staircase,” which itself recalls Eadweard Muybridge’s time-lapse photographic study of a naked woman walking down a flight of stairs.

From New York Times

And not only to Balla: Marcel Duchamp painted “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” the same year as “Dynamism of a Dog.”

From Washington Post

And not only to Balla: Marcel Duchamp painted “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” the same year as “Dynamism of a Dog.”

From Washington Post