Saturday, June 20, 2015

Nude Descending a Staircase

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) by Marcel Duchamp

notable works by Marcel Duchamp

This work is commonly regarded as one of the most influential pieces of modern art, and has become a celebrated work from it’s era. It was initially rejected by the Cubist art community as too Futuristic yet managed to be exhibited at Galeries J. Dalmau, Cubist Exposition of 1912 in Barcelona. Later it caused such a frenzy while exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show in New York that lines stretched for blocks with people waiting to see it.

No comments:

Post a Comment