Originating in a number of world capitals, the art movement Dada spawned from Futurism"s intentions to rid art of its traditional boundaries. Considered by many to be "anti-art" its main intention was to oppose the traditional styles and materials that art was confined to. Seeking to cause harmless outrage and inflict insult, Dada was a growing force as the world began to recognize and accept its presence. One of the main advocates of the Dada movement was Marcel Duchamp, whom sought to challenge tradition through appalling and scandalous means. He was most widely known for his submission to the Independent Exhibition in 1917 New York where he submitted a common urinal, signed it R. Mutt and titled it Fountain. Initially rejected but later accepted once in was known that Duchamp had submitted it, Fountain was a piece that emphasized its aesthetic beauty as a sculpture, rather than its functional purpose as a urinal. At this point people began to realize that context plays a large role in determining our perspective on the way we see things and it was out of this realization that art began to eventually take on different forms and styles.

             One of the newer forms that art eventually took was called Conceptual Art. Dating from the 1960"s, Conceptual Art had its origins in the Dad movement. According to Biddington"s Art terms , "Conceptual Art is an international movement in which the idea of a work matters more than its physical representation. Conceptual Art is based in the intellect rather than the eye-employing words as much as, or more than images". Conceptual Art was developed to change the tendency for people to view art as a commodity. Theorists and advocates of Conceptual Art are concerned with concepts such as the nature of art; they believed that Conceptual Art was meant to be provocative and to expand the idea of art beyond its attractiveness or the value it possesses.