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Glacier on a staircase
Watercolour, crayon and gouache
©2013 Charlene Brown
Marcel Duchamp intended his famous Nude Descending a Staircase
to be “an expression of time and space through the abstract presentation of
motion.”
Duchamp’s
masterpiece was initially rejected by both the Cubists and the Futurists, with
one critic dismissing it as ‘an explosion in a shingle factory.’ This startling turn of phrase seemed like a good guideline for
generating an ‘abstract presentation of motion’ – in this case the disappearance
of a glacier over the hundred-year period from 1910 to 2010
as previously illustrated on 1150 Words.
