WHATCH Anhttps:/A4Nrayoutube.comiwatch?v=Q1KBYRXEBgA1nnThe painting Nude Descending A Staircase created a sensation when it was exhibited in New York in February 1913 at the historic Armory Show
of contemporary art, where perplexed Americans saw it as representing all the tricks they felt European artists were playing at their expense. The pictures outrageousness surely lay in its
seemingly mechanical portrayal of a subject at once so sensual and time-honored. The Nudes destiny as a symbol also stemmed from its remarkable aggregation of avant-garde concerns: the birth of
cinema; the CubistsV fracturing of form; the FuturistV depiction of movement; the chromophotography of Etienne-Jules Marey, Eadweard Muybridge, and Thomas Eakins; and the redefinitions of time and
space by scientists and philosophers.

Looking at this image, can you see a correlation between the image and todayl’s modern cinema? Why does the artist use this specific color palette and how do these simple, but highly mechanized
shapes stand in for the human form?