“Untitled by Luchita Hurtado is an oil painting on canvas made in 1971. It measures roughly two and a half feet by one and half feet and is hung in portrait orientation, meaning the shortest side runs parallel to the floor. This painting is a mix of modernism and surrealism. Modernism is a style of painting that focuses on recent western artistic experimentation while surrealism allows the unconscious mind to express itself. The shape of the canvas is a long rectangle and it’s divided in the middle by a horizontal line. The composition is painted from an overhead, aerial perspective, as if you’re looking downward at the scene. This painting is comprised of body parts, specifically hands and feet, all set in the same color scheme- a tan, light yellow color. We see a cropped image of feet (from the arch to the toes) coming into the painting from the left and right borders. On the top left of the canvas, there is a right foot slightly angled downward. Moving downward, right around the horizontal line, there’s a pair of feet angled in a sideways “V” formation with a knee also overlapping the right foot. At the bottom, we see a left foot with a knee overlapping it, parallel to the canvas. On the top right side of the canvas, we see a pair of feet angled in a sideways “V” formation again. The left foot is placed closer to the center of the canvas while the right foot is farther back, only showing a couple of toes. Moving below the dividing line, we see another pair of feet also in the sideways “V” formation. The feet appear to be close together, almost touching. Below the feet, on the horizontal edge, there is a right hand that is pointing with its index finger at the crack that’s in the middle of the floor. The floor is painted blue-gray, reminiscent of concrete, and the crack is painted dark blue, almost appearing black in some places. Starting where the finger is pointed, the crack climbs up in a zigzag and right below the horizontal line it branches off downwards from the main crack, forming and upside-down “V.” Picking back up from the main crack, it keeps climbing up and branches off to the right, slightly downwards, close to the second foot that’s on the right side. Continuing on the main crack, it climbs up a bit more and then branches off to the left in a downward angle. Back on the main crack, it keeps climbing and ends below the top horizontal edge of the canvas. There is also a small crack on the right side of the canvas, starting at the end of the horizontal line and climbing upwards at an angle. Two feathers appear on the floor. The first feather is placed at the top, on the right side of the crack, in an upward angle. The second feather is on the crack, above the horizontal line, at a downward angle. Both feathers have a gradient, starting as white and then blending into black. “