Nude Descending a Staircase
Americannoun
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Among his initial attempts was a series of paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans, which Henry Geldzahler, the art curator, called “the Nude Descending a Staircase of the Pop movement.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2020
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2″ drew inspiration from Muybridge’s pioneering stop-motion imagery.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2013
Roosevelt particularly scorned Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, and wondered if the painter belonged to the school of "Parallelopipedonists, or Knights of the Isosceles Triangle".
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2013
Many -------of the style of painting exemplified by Marcel Duchamp's work focused on Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase as the -------of what they detested about modern art.
From SAT Tests
Of this vast, variegated horde of masters, Director Milliken simply showed them all from Delacroix to Marcel Duchamp's cubistic Nude Descending a Staircase.
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