TIME
ABOUT TIME:
Time is the succession of separate moments on each other, based on the earth's rotation as a measuring instrument.
Time moves on. We can visualize time as a river that we are traveling down. When we look back, we see the past; when we look ahead, we see the future.
It is possible to blend time with art. Art exists in two dimensions: time and space. Change and movement are depicted by time, and movement denotes the passage of time.
Actual movement can be found in a work of art, which means that the work of art moves; kinetic art. Or it could have the appearance of movement.
An example of movement and time in an artwork is Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. The painting's peculiar impression of motion almost appears to be a time-lapse.
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), 1912. Oil on canvas, 57x35, Philidephia Museum of Art.
NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE (NO.2)- MARCEL DUCHAMP (1912)
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. Though the work exemplifies his extremely original engagement with Cubism, it also precipitated his break with the Cubists. When Duchamp presented it for exhibition in Paris in 1912, fellow Cubists on the hanging committee tried to exclude it. They may have objected to the idea of painting dynamic movement, or the unfamiliar subject of a nude on a flight of stairs, or the title written in block letters at the lower margin. When the work was finally presented at the Armory Show, which made the case for modern art to large audiences in New York in 1913, it met with a hostile public reaction—and cemented Duchamp's reputation as an artistic provocateur.