Impressionism and the Human Form: EC

The recent hint at impressionism that I gave in my last post led me to write a piece on their work.  This is a similar work to the 'Unique Forms of Continuity and Space,' however it is not a sculpture. I believe the images share the same aspects as dynamism though as well as how the human body can influence artistic space.  The image is 'Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2,' by Marcel Duchamp, a French impressionist painter.  The painting shares the aspects that Balla and Boccioni used in their works such as fluidity and a slightly cubist aesthetic. 
It also relates to formula of the body's joint in motion that I touched on in the last post.  Here the whole body is shown, even though it may be hard to make out, there are pinpoints within the painting that locate the joints of the knee and the elbow.  These points cause the most dynamic effects in the painting.  Where each joint causes a ligament to move there is a swoosh like aesthetic laid over the blocky and tonal representation of movement.  The stairs remain static in the image but the human body causes a lot of angular moments as well as curvature.  It is almost as if this image was seen by Boccioni and he took it to represent a sculpture with a bit of his own touch.  Duchamp's impressionist work was similar to the aesthetic of the Futurists.