And of course the motion picture with its cinematic techniques was developing then too.
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Duchamp submitted the work to appear with the Cubists at the 28th exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, Paris, 25 March through 16 May 1912.
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Painting by Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase, No.
Duchamp later recalled of the relation between motion and his nude: My aim was a static representation of movement, a static composition of indications of various positions taken by a form in movement—with no attempt to give cinema effects through painting.