The statement "artist frequently break traditions in order to challenge the audience's perception" can be supported when addressing the art movement Dada. Dadaists such as Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters produced unconventional art works that provoked the audience to consider what art really was. One of the first large scaled movements to translate art into provocative action. From 1915 Dada produced many of the most anarchic, playful, antibourgeois, anti-rational, confrontational and nihilistic works made during the …showed first 75 words of 599 total…

…showed last 75 words of 599 total…and wonder items of beauty. His choice of unconventional material, use of ready-mades to create collages, and his random collection of objects and the notion of his art as being "meaningless" defined him as a Dadaist. Unconventional and unorthodox approaches or methods used by Dadists such a Duchamp and Schwitters, assaulted traditional notions of what art should be, hence giving truth to the statement "artist frequently break traditions in order to challenge the audience's perception."