Art and Intention

Art and Intention Checkpoint

Axia College of University of Phoenix

Art 101

The reaction of the public was not being able to understand what the artist were trying to

convey. Marcel Duchamp's and Michelangelo's David Nude Descending a Staircase showed

this painting had two modern art movements, the Cubism and Futurism.

Cubism:

The Cubism period focused a lot of multiple viewpoints. Mapped the motion and energy of

the body as it passed through space making the picture look unrealistic.

Futurism:

The Futurist period, was a period fascinated with speed. Artists created an illusion as if the

painting were moving.

This painting raised eyebrows in France and brought a scandal in New York when the

painting was display, the mechanistic approach to the female body was perceived...