Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 [SEP] creator
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (French: "Nu descendant un escalier n° 2") is a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp. The work is widely regarded as a Modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time. Before its first presentation at the 1912 Salon des Indépendants in Paris it was rejected by the Cubists as being too Futurist. It was then exhibited with the Cubists at Galeries Dalmau's "Exposició d'Art Cubista", in
1914, "Chocolate Grinder" ("Broyeuse de chocolat"), prefigures the mechanism incorporated into the "Large Glass" on which he began work in New York the following year.
Early work "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2".
Duchamp's first work to provoke significant controversy was "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" "(Nu descendant un escalier n° 2)" (1912). The painting depicts the mechanistic motion of a nude, with superimposed facets, similar to motion