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Dude Descending a Staircase is the fourth studio album by English electronic music group Apollo 440. It was released as a double album on 22 July 2003 via Stealth Sonic Recordings and Sony Music UK. Recording sessions took place at Apollo Control in Camden, London.
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.
Dude Descending a Staircase is the fourth studio album by English electronic music group Apollo 440. It was released as a double album on 22 July 2003 via Stealth Sonic Recordings and Sony Music UK. Recording sessions took place at Apollo Control in Camden, London.
Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), oil painting created in 1912 by French artist Marcel Duchamp. The painting created a sensation, but Duchamp painted only a few more works, notably The Large Glass. Despite his ambivalence toward art, Duchamp came to be regarded as a master and precursor of several 20th-century art movements.
Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) peels away the traditional beauty of the nude in art, its carnality, even its identifiable sex. Instead, the painting aims to expand our perception of the human body in motion, a topic of fascination for Duchamp around this time.
In Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), Duchamp had welded a cubist style of shattered picture planes to the kind of painting being done by the Italian avant-garde movement Futurism, typified by Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
“Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” is a seminal work by Marcel Duchamp, created in 1912. This oil on canvas masterpiece employs the cubist style to depict the motion of the human figure in an abstract, dynamic form.
