I've actually seen the painting "Nude Descending Staircase" (no comment), and this is a variation of it. I question whether the suject matter of a work of "art" can decide whether is all that good. But what if someone painted a picture of a dog's torn up, saliva covered chewtoy in such ecsquisite detail that you couldn't tell whether it was a painting or a photograph? Hmm...that's a poser.