
Nude Descending a Staircase
1912 · Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
A critic at the 1913 Armory Show called it an explosion in a shingle factory, and the insult followed the painting around America.
★ 8.0

A critic at the 1913 Armory Show called it an explosion in a shingle factory, and the insult followed the painting around America.

Monet went to Venice late and found a city already doing what he had spent fifty years trying to paint.

Peasants and houses rendered as polished metal cylinders. Malevich was three years away from painting a black square and stopping.