Which movement's approach includes embracing chance to challenge conventional notions of authorship?

Which movement's approach includes embracing chance to challenge conventional notions of authorship?

• A. Dada
• B. Romanticism
• C. Impressionism
• D. Realism

Answer: (A)

Embracing chance to undermine who gets to author a work is a hallmark of the Dada movement. Dada artists deliberately invited randomness, spontaneity, and the use of found or readymade objects to strip away the artist’s control over meaning and redefine what can count as art. Marcel Duchamp’s readymades illustrate this shift: by simply selecting an ordinary object and presenting it as art, the idea and context become the deciding factors, not traditional craft or the artist’s hand. Chance-driven methods—such as random collage or performance—served to challenge established norms about authorship and artistic authority, making meaning a product of circumstance and context as much as of deliberate technique. In contrast, Romanticism centers on individual genius and intense emotion; Impressionism emphasizes perception and technique; Realism aims to depict everyday life with fidelity. Those movements don’t foreground chance as a tool to question who creates art in the same way, so they don’t fit this idea as well as Dada.

Embracing chance to undermine who gets to author a work is a hallmark of the Dada movement. Dada artists deliberately invited randomness, spontaneity, and the use of found or readymade objects to strip away the artist’s control over meaning and redefine what can count as art. Marcel Duchamp’s readymades illustrate this shift: by simply selecting an ordinary object and presenting it as art, the idea and context become the deciding factors, not traditional craft or the artist’s hand. Chance-driven methods—such as random collage or performance—served to challenge established norms about authorship and artistic authority, making meaning a product of circumstance and context as much as of deliberate technique. In contrast, Romanticism centers on individual genius and intense emotion; Impressionism emphasizes perception and technique; Realism aims to depict everyday life with fidelity. Those movements don’t foreground chance as a tool to question who creates art in the same way, so they don’t fit this idea as well as Dada.