The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
xerox 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Okay, very valid point. In the movie after the quiz which they won they talked about his art, stating that they didn’t see the nudity and felt sorry for him , I personally did not agree with the movies sentiment over the art works featured in the film. Did you?

somniloquist 2 points 3 years ago. (Contains Spoilers)

I suppose I would say (without getting too far into it) to the students in this film (which I have never seen) that looking for nudity, looking for the human form at all, in that painting is missing the point almost entirely. I would say that Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 (which I would assume is the version they were looking at) chiefly holds the purpose of capturing movement, secondarily how light would play a roll in perceiving that movement, and thirdly perhaps the passage of time in a still image. This is what Duchamp was exploring by even working in the cubist genre at all. I would say that those students, or any students, ought to mentally and conceptually back up from the work and forget about trying to compare it with ‘real world’ physical space.