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3 unusual facts about Douglas Gorsline


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The American painter Douglas Gorsline (1913-1985) lived in the village for twenty years.

Douglas Gorsline

Marcel Duchamp had a strong effect on him because he joined the idea of movement to the concepts of cubism — as in the Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.

It is of note that both Gorsline and Duchamp were inspired by the chronophotography of Étienne-Jules Marey who in order to fulfill his scientific pursuits invented cameras and methods to decompose movement.



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