Thursday, March 22, 2012

Movement

I have asked you to create a square composition expressing movement, using analogous colors and exploring halation.
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending A Staircase No. 2 is one of the most influential paintings in the history of modern art, and it is one prompt you can research for capturing movement. Duchamp reinterpreted Eadweard Muybridge’s sequence of a naked woman walking down a flight of stairs from his 1887 Animal Locomotion. Duchamp combined Futurist and Cubist ideas in a unique way and depicted movement through fragmentation. Most viewers weren’t impressed by its showing in the 1913 New York Armory Show.





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