Donatello, Equestrian monument of Erasmo da Narni, bronze, Padua, Italy, Early Renaissance, 1443-53

-Equestrian statues, commemorate leadership.

-Recovery of Roman Ideals

-Donatello's "sources" for this statue were two recovered Roman Bronze equestrian statues.

Marcel Dunchamp, Fountain, urinal, American (of French origin), Dada, 1917

-Readymade

-Not in the craft in the idea (?) 

David Smith, Hudson River Landscape, welded steel, American Abstract Expressionism, 1951

-Mimicked the Hudson River School

-A new age of art, because we don't live in the past. Art must look to the future. 

An equestrian statue (man on horse) was very common in the commemorating of leadership.

Marcus Aurelius & the Renissance Ideal of Leadership. 

Cultural movement 1916-1920

• rejection of the prevailing standards in art  through anti-art cultural works.
• Influenced the Avant-Garde Movement

"plumbing" as art.

The idea that artist "create" architecture, but what about all of the engineers who actually build the structures.

Is there real art anymore?

e.g. Duchamp

1914-1918

The War to End all Wars. 

Early 20th Cen. 

Move forward, push away from the past.

-Artists willing to take risks

-"Draw new lines of tradition"