Art and Intention

The reaction of the public to Michelangelo’s David and Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase was the painting overturned conventions not only for depicting the female nude but also for representing three-dimensional space on a canvas. Michelangelo’s David it is one of the world’s most famous sculptures, considered a masterpiece of Renaissance art. But it did not meet with universal approval when it was first dis played in Florence, Italy, in 1504. The thing that contemporary viewers find objectionable about each work was the plaza where public political meetings took place on a raised platform called the arringhiera from which the English word “harangue” derives). Its political context, in other words, was clear. It represented David’s triumph over the tyrant Goliath and was meant to symbolize Republican Florence the city’s freedom from foreign and papal domination and from the rule of the Medici family as well. Les Demoiselles d’Avingnon has often been interpreted as commenting on the anxiety surrounding venereal disease, a life-threatening sexual affliction that widely affected prostitutes in Paris during the 1900s. The reasons behind Duchamp’s innovative approach to human form were inspired by a popular exhibition of African objects held in Paris in the 1800s. Frequently carried modern European perceptions of cultural superiority and often appropriated the art without understanding its original meaning function. Yes the artist’s inspiration enhanced my appreciation of Nude Descending a Staircase there were so many details on the paintings and it explains so much of each painting on what it all means. This art work is expressing yourself and not being afraid to show the world.

References:
A world of art chapter 3
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