The mentality behind the Cubist painter was to reject the work of artists who made what society wanted to view as art. Instead of painting for the basics of conventional art, Cubist painters used shapes and formed movement from placing objects in different angles to create a completely new artistic perspective. Gertrude Stein, a modernist writer of the 20th century, rejected the expectations of a society that required writing to represent the speech of language. Just as the cubist painter they both were out to prove something different and bring something new to a society that was so used to seeing the same traditional works. Stein's writing is often compared to the art of modernist paintings, such as Marcel Duchamp. One work …show more content…
Duchamp's paintings mirror in a sense that of Stein’s works, and how the shapes and angles are meant to represent one thing according to the title of the painting but at first look you see nothing like that. Stein and Duchamp both title their pieces in a way that initially gives an idea of what he and she wants the viewer to see. Stein's intention, as well as Duchamp's, was to lead audiences to a level abstract thinking which would ultimately lead to the viewing of art as an autonomous interpretation, rather than it being given to you right when you look at the …show more content…
Duchamp includes various angles and shapes, in various overlapping forms, to create an abstract image presented in through the title but cannot be seen at first. For example, those who view the painting of the staircase are searching for the idea of an object descending a staircase and ultimately form a picture of a standard staircase in their head and how it should be perceived to look like in everyday life. Because Duchamp included various occurring phases, color combinations, and angles in the painting, these images of what a staircase should appear to be are not found in the painting. Seeing the staircase is only seen by using the idea of constant movement, and the combination of colors to provide support for the visual construction of a humanz and a wooden staircase. Duchamp used various techniques to provide a base from which the audience can then self-construct an image for the painting as its own entity without any type of concrete representation of a scene or