Nude Descending A Staircase No.2

Nude Descending A Staircase No 2
Nude Descending A Staircase No 2

The painting color of Duchamp’s painting Nude Descending A Staircase No 2 was brown, which was a typical Cubist tone. It took apart the human movements going downstairs, as if the moment captured picture pasted together. The title of the work was clearly written on the canvas, The naked woman of downstairs: has been described as “mills of the big bang”. Duchamp’s painting is considered to be pioneers of futurism. In this work, one can not see naked women, or a complete staircase, only to see some messy lines. Duchamp later sent this painting to the 28th independent exhibition, but it was rejected by the judges, saying that it had exceeded the tolerable limit. It had been seen in the United States Armory fairs and was regarded as “the big bang of the mills”.

Nude Descending A Staircase No 2 was a Marcel Duchamp‘s decisive work which was the second thorough reform of the traditional painting. It was said that he once saw a photo a friend made a Double Exposure of negatives, overlapping phenomenon of continuous movements in the film, giving the artist a great deal of inspiration. On this painting, however, objective figures were not contemplated by the painter and his naked woman down the stairs was cut into chunks of lines shapes. We could see a lot of overlap in the action States vaguely. Bright oil yellow sparkled in the light irradiation and groups that crossed Mirage hold in a rush. There was the crossroads the machines of the industrial age and people’s sense of urgency and speed. Evidently the creation of the painting under the influence of futurism and Dadaism absorbed the speed and against the traditional concept of art.