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ART AND INTENTION
ASHEY TURNER
AUGUST 24, 2014
ART/101
DR. John Lennox

The Sculpture of David that Michelangelo’s sculpture represents David victory of the tyrant Goliath and it also supposed to represent the Republican Florence. There was lost of the citizens that were not pleased with the nudity on the sculpture so they started to throw rocks at the sculpture, with this taking place they had to pay in order to watch over it. There was a skirt that was made and cover the David’s mid-section. When the nude descending, the stairway artwork, it brought a lot of controversy among American, when it was shown in the first Amory Showing 1913. There was a nude woman walking down the stairs, even though Duchamp did not pose a nude lady. There were many of peoples that had look at Duchamp sculpture think that it was disrespectful to the audiences. There was many of peoples thought that it was very hard to interpret so therefore they found it very hard to appreciate the abstraction. Duchamp motivated to create the art stop motion photography, or stroboscopic photography, was Muybridge’s book animal locomotion containing multiple picture of nude women. Duchamp used the ideas to paint the Nude Descending a Stair, because he was so impressed by the movement used in those photographs. There was lots of appreciation by artist and their work, after lots of thoughts that were behind the two pieces of arts. I think that the statue of David by Michelangelo it’s very easier to understand, as someone that don’t look at art, bit I knew actually what it was when I first saw it. There is a reason and understanding why Duchamp painted his piece e of art even thought it was hard to locate the woman figures within the painting. When there’s more information about piece of art, they will appreacted the artist and get a better meaning of a piece of art.

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Sayre, H.M. (2010) A world of art. Upper Saddle River,, Nj: Pearson

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