Art Intention

CheckPoint: Art and Intention

First of all, I think when people just “hear” the word nude or “see” a painting or sculpture

that is nude; they automatically think the worst. People’s reactions to David and Nude

Descending a Staircase are opinions. The publics’ reaction to both of these pieces is understandable at a first glance.

The public may have felt the art pieces were insulting, offensive, and inappropriate for some ages. But that still does not give the public the right to bash the artists’ intent. The public needed to stop and think about the artists’ feelings at the time and try understanding what the artists were doing.

Contemporary viewers found both pieces of art to be upsetting. The viewers were shocked. In my opinion, both Michaelangelo and Duchamp were trying to ask the audiences about the boundaries of art.

Duchamp was expressing the treatise on human and nonhuman movement. Duchamp was trying to breakdown the motion of movement, into visual steps.

The knowledge I have learned so far does help me understand a little more about art. Although, when I first viewed Nude Descending a Staircase, I was not offended nor did I find it insulting. I still look at it and wonder why Duchamp gave it that name. I am not the type of person to be “quick to judge” in these types of scenarios’.

CheckPoint: Art and Intention

First of all, I think when people just “hear” the word nude or “see” a painting or sculpture

that is nude; they automatically think the worst. People’s reactions to David and Nude

Descending a Staircase are opinions. The publics’ reaction to both of these pieces is understandable at a first glance.

The public may have felt the art pieces were insulting, offensive, and inappropriate for some ages. But that still does not give the public the right to bash the artists’ intent. The public needed to stop and think about the artists’ feelings at the time and try understanding what the artists were doing....