Sentences with phrase «descending staircase»

Benson can be seen descending the staircase in a formal suit and in lumberjack clothing in the dining room.

In 1912 he exhibited his controversial «Nude Descending a Staircase,» and by 1913 he had abandoned traditional painting and drawing for more experimental forms, including mechanical drawings, studies and notations.

Created in 1975, Doll Clothes takes the imagery of Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase as a starting point which encourages

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, © 2013 Artists Rights Society)

According to an exhibition at Tate Britain, «His influence has forever changed our understanding and interpretation of the world, and can be found in many diverse fields, from Marcel Duchamp's painting Nude Descending a Staircase and countless works by Francis Bacon, to the blockbuster film The Matrix and Philip Glass's opera The Photographer.»

Despite its claim of featuring work from 1940 — 1985, Abstract Then sneakily kicks off with the Futurists: the first work in the gallery space is one of Duchamp's Boites (Series F)(1966), which contains — amongst other things — a small replica of Nude Descending a Staircase (1912).

Marcel Duchamp, (French, 1887 - 1968), Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), 1912.

• Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) by Pablo Picasso • Harmony in Red (1908) by Henri Matisse • Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 (1912) by Marcel Duchamp • Black Circle (1913) by Kasimir Malevich • Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (1936) by Salvador Dali • Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942 - 3) by Piet Mondrian • Number 6 (1948) by Jackson Pollock • Yellow and Gold (1956) by Mark Rothko • Blue Monochrome (1961) by Yves Klein

An apt metaphor for a man who risked losing his creative equilibrium for the sake of experimentation, this colourful abstract work was influenced by Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase.

The painting Nude Descending a Staircase No 2 by Marcel Duchamp was attacked by an angry mob, while Brancusi and Matisse were hanged in effigy.

Marcel Duchamp's highly abstract painting Nude Descending a Staircase (1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art), caused an uproar among the traditional American visitors.

Behind him is the man's Gerhard Richter painting (the artist's wife descending a staircase), his Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol and his neon coil by Bruce Nauman.

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) One of the most innovative artists of the 20th century, painter / sculptor, member of Cubist Section d'Or group, noted for «readymades», along with works like Nude Descending a Staircase (1911 - 12), and the urinal entitled Fountain (1917).

Around the same time he met Marcel Duchamp, a pioneer of Dada, whose Futurist / Cubist Nude Descending a Staircase (1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art) created a huge scandal.

While in Paris, he immersed himself in the paintings of Cezanne (1839 - 1906), and attended the salon of Leo and Gertrude Stein, where he met modern artists from the Ecole de Paris (Paris School), including Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), the Cubist theorist Juan Gris (1887 - 1927), and Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) whose Cubist painting Nude Descending Staircase (1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art) caused such a scandal at the 1913 Armory Show in New York.

Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 by famous French artist Marcel Duchamp.

In 1905 and 1913, exhibitions of avant - garde art were presented at the Museum, including Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase and other momentous works from the controversial 1913 Armory Show in New York.

In a new video work, Mancuska alludes to one of the pioneering works of the avant - garde, Marcel Duchamp's «Nude descending a staircase» (1912).

Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)(1912) was considered scandalous and roundly mocked by the media of the day, such as in a March 1913 Cubist - inspired cartoon in The Evening Sun newspaper, seen in reproduction in the show, that depicted «The Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway).»

Nude Descending Staircase (1912) By Marcel Duchamp.

After the sensation caused by Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912), he painted few other pictures.

But it is Gerhard Richter's Ema (Nude Descending a Staircase)(1992) that always stops me.

The exhibition included works by Cezanne, van Gogh, Gaugin, Matisse, Manet, Renoir, and the controversial Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp.

This work is a great display of how far beyond the formal fine art world Duchamp's influence spread, with the set and dance piece influenced by both the shapes and movement in Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, and his suspension of objects in 1915 work, The Large Glass.

Now known as the «Mona - Lisa of Cologne», it was Richter's response to seeing a Marcel Duchamp exhibition in 1965 and his famous painting Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912.

The painting reveals a life - sized naked woman descending a staircase, possibly asleep.

His influence has forever changed our understanding and interpretation of the world, and can be found in many diverse fields, from Marcel Duchamp's painting Nude Descending a Staircase and countless works by Francis Bacon, to the blockbuster film The Matrix and Philip Glass's opera The Photographer.

Included here are images of her re-installation of Marcel Duchamp's 1,200 coal bags at New York's Perry Rubinstein Gallery and stills from her 1967 film, Nude Descending a Staircase.

Entering Room 1 of the South Gallery you spot Marcel Duchamp's hand - coloured collotype of his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912, a large Patrick Caulfield and a Gillian Carnegie still life sharing the opposite wall, underscoring Schwabsky's point that «detached from the model, painting can proceed from image to image».

Francis Nauman's booth presented a selection of works paying homage to Duchamp's infamous Nude Descending a Staircase, perhaps the most cited work of the original Armory show, including a bizarre maquette by Wim Delvoye for his work Twisted Double Dump Truck Staircase.

Picasso (1881 - 1973) and Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) developed this new style in stages: first, proto - type Cubism (see Picasso's semi-abstract Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, MoMA, NY); then Analytical Cubism (see Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art) by Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968); then Synthetic Cubism, which was more collage - oriented.

Joe Zucker: «Empire Descending a Staircase» (through April 27) This is something of a comeback show for one of the most restless and ambitious painters to emerge from the 1970s, who habitually combines eccentric painting processes with weird subject matter and weirder materials.

Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), 1912 Oil on canvas 57 7/8 x 35 1/8 inches Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 Art: © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY

• Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 (1912) Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) Nude Descending a Staircase (No 2)(1912) Philadelphia Museum of Art.

As we looked into a series of classic abstract works — including Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (1912), Romare Bearden's Out Chorus (1979 - 80), and Joseph Stella's Brooklyn Bridge (1939)-- I decided to go against my inclination to do all of the looking and talking first and sketch later.

Highlights include: Three Musicians by Picasso; Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 (1912) and The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)(1915 - 23) by Marcel Duchamp; and Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (1936) by Salvador Dali.

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection

Meantime Duchamp also managed to trigger an enormous scandal at the famous American exhibition of Modern Art, better known as The Armory Show, when his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 was attacked by an angry mob, ensuring that he became the best known of all the modern artists on show.

The video Nude Descending a Staircase — a riff on one of Marcel Duchamp's most famous paintings — shows the nude artist walking down stairs in a futuristic environment while repeatedly taking selfies.

The 18 works in Master Painters (2011) give personal re-readings of famous paintings, sometimes subtly, but generally with wit or irony: thus Canarian Gothic references Grant Wood's American Gothic; Flowers for a Martyr reworks Vincent van Gogh's iconic sunflowers; and Pedro (Naked at Stairs) harks back both to Gerhard Richter's Ema (Nude on a Staircase) of 1966 and beyond it to Marcel Duchamp's fragmented Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) of 1912.

Cubist paintings such as Pablo Picasso's Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase No. 3 (1912) use geometric shapes as playful and haunting references to the organic shapes of the human body.

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Water is even there in person, sometimes descending the staircase.

When revolutionary French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) debuted his transgressive 1912 Cubo - Futurist painting «Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2» at the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art (now known as The Armory Show) in New York, its reputation preceded it.

While the former works with figures that seem to move like slowed - down frames in an animation (Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase comes to mind), the latter fractures abstract forms that seem to shape - shift before our eyes.

Comic Future, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX Tumescence: Peter Doig, Sigmar Polke, Peter Saul, Michael Williams, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY Marcel Duchamp's «Nude Descending a Staircase»: An Homage, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY De Chaissac à Hyber, parcours d'un amateur vendéen.

Echoing the same event, Descending the Staircase, 2012, allows the emancipated slats to hang parabolically from a wire, the title an obvious nod to Duchamp's ridiculed painting of a nude, completed a century earlier in 1912 and first seen in the United States at the controversial Armory Show of 1913.

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)(Example of Analytical Cubism)- Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 (1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art)

The museum's circulation pattern offers visitors glimpses into the vault's storage space as well, with its sliding racks of art visible from the complex descending staircase that visitors follow after exploring the main gallery on the third floor.