avant-garde

(noun)

Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.

Related Terms

  • medium
  • Cubism
  • neo-expressionism
  • modernism

Examples of avant-garde in the following topics:

  • The Armory Show

    • The Armory Show of 1913 displayed the work of European avant-garde artists alongside their American counterparts.
    • The initial premise of the show was to exhibit the best avant-garde European art alongside the best works of American artists to audiences in New York City, Chicago and Boston.
    • Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism were among the European avant-garde schools represented.
    • The Armory Show introduced New Yorkers accustomed to the naturalistic art of American Realism to the styles of the European avant-gardes.
  • New York

    • The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular: action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the New York art world's vanguard circle.
    • The Ninth Street Art exhibition was not only a showing of a remarkable amount of work from leading abstract expressionists and notable New York artists, it was also the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde.
  • The New York School

    • The artists of the New York School drew inspiration from surrealism and other contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theatre, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle.
    • It was a historical, ground-breaking exhibition, gathering of a number of notable artists, and it was the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
    • Poets drew on inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular the Action painting of their friends in the New York City art world like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
    • In the 1960s, the work of the avant-garde Minimalist composers La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Tony Conrad, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley became prominent in the New York art world.
  • Fauvism

    • The painting that was singled out for special condemnation, Matisse's Woman with a Hat, was subsequently bought by the major patrons of the avant-garde scene in Paris, Gertrude and Leo Stein .
    • This painting was rejected by critics when initially exhibited, but was soon acquired by avant-garde collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein.
  • Dada and Surrealism

    • Dada and Surrealism were multidisciplinary cultural movements of the European avant-garde that emerged in Zurich and Paris respectively during the time of WWI.
    • The movement influenced later styles like avant-garde, and movements including surrealism, Nouveau réalisme, pop art and Fluxus.
  • Art Informel in Europe

    • Other movements closely related to Art Informel were the Gutai group in Japan and COBRA, a European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951.
  • The Role of the Artist

    • The advent of Cubism and subsequent avant-garde movements signified a shift in the role of the artist.
  • Painting

    • It has even been argued that much of what is called postmodern today, the latest avant-garde, should still be classified as modern art.
    • Postmodernism also rejects the notion of advancement or progress in art, and thus aims to overturn the "myth of the avant-garde" that modernism perpetuated.
  • German Expressionism

    • Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War and remained popular during the Weimar Republic, particularly in Berlin.
    • They responded both to past artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald and Lucas Cranach the Elder, as well as contemporary international avant-garde movements.
  • Abstract Sculpture

    • Modern abstract sculpture developed alongside other avant-garde movements of the early 20th century like Cubism and Surrealism.
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