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- In an art historical context, the term avant-garde is most commonly applied to the modernist European art of the early 20th century. It was during this time that artists made a clean break with the past, creating an incredible variety of different art styles. These included Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Rayonism, Surrealism, Dadaism, and more.
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The beginning of the avant-garde. Avant-garde art can be said to begin in the 1850s with the realism of Gustave Courbet, who was strongly influenced by early socialist ideas. This was followed by the successive movements of modern art, and the term avant-garde is more or less synonymous with modern.
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The Origins of the Phrase
Originally, "avant-garde" was a French military term for what would be called in English the vanguard of an army. However, its first application to art precedes by some decades the emergence of any distinctly avant-garde art movements. The coinage has generally been attributed to the French social theorist Henri de Saint-Simon. In his book Opinions litteraires, philosophiques et industrielles (Literary, Philosophical, and Industrial Opinions) (1825), published in the year of his death, Saint-...
Precursors
The idea of avant-garde art germinated in an era of social unrest, and was originally one of a number of competing theories to define and address it. However, Saint-Simonism, emphasizing the importance of the industrial class and science in renewing society, had become a particularly dominant force by the early 1800s. The unique distinction of Saint-Simon's theory was that it expanded the concept of the working class to include scientists, businesspeople, bankers, and managers. This expansion...
The French Revolution of 1848
The concept of avant-garde art took more distinct shape across the early-to-mid decades of the 19thcentury in France, especially between the July Revolution of 1830 and the French Revolution of 1848. This eighteen-year period was marked by political turmoil, movements for social reform, and counter forces of suppression. In 1848, revolt and rebellion occurred throughout Europe, from Scandinavia to Italy to Germany and Hungary. Amongst its causes were widespread famine and poverty, the inequal...
Avant-garde Art Movements
Avant-garde art was synonymous with the idea of the "movement" as the primary concept for understanding the development of art during the 20thcentury. As contemporary philosopher Alain Badiou has noted, "More or less the whole of twentieth-century art has laid claim to an avant-garde function." Sometimes an avant-garde movement consisted - at least initially - of only a few artists, as in Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque's Cubism or Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay's Orphism (though both movements...
Galleries and Museums
An essential characteristic of avant-garde art was its rejection of previous social and aesthetic orthodoxies. As such, its initial success often depended upon a small group of critics and gallerists willing to fly in the face of those orthodoxies. As the art critic Rosalind McEver notes, "avant-garde is a noun as well as an adjective. It refers to groups of artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, specifically, those making and distributing art in a different way to the...
The Avant-garde and Alienation
The Romantic movements of the early 19h century were the first to emphasize the idea of the solitary and independent artist, often portrayed as a kind of Byronic hero. As Linda Nochlin notes, "the idea of the artist as an outcast from society, rejected and misunderstood by a philistine, bourgeois social order was...not a novelty by the middle of the nineteenth century." This had developed into a more pronounced sense of social alienation by the middle of the 19th century. Nochlin adds that fo...
Avant-Garde and Kitsch
By Clement Greenberg Originally published in Partisan Review, 1939 In 1939, Clement Greenberg published his essay "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," which argued that the avant-garde artist attempts to create "something valid solely on its own terms, in the way nature itself is valid...something given, increate, independent of meanings, similars or originals." Later associated with Abstract Expressionism, which he championed, Greenberg's theories became the leading art-critical concepts of the era. Th...
Theory of the Avant-Garde
By Peter Bürger Originally published as Theorie der Avantgardeby Suhrkamp Verlag, 1974 In the 1970s Peter Bürger's Theory of the Avant-Gardebecame so influential that two years after its publication, a volume of responses by leading art historians, artists, and critics was published. A member of the Frankfurt School, Bürger developed the idea of what he called "the historical avant-garde," which he placed during the era of 1910-40. He argued that avant-garde art represented the unification of...
Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century
By Hal Foster Published by MIT Press, 1996 Art historian and critic Hal Foster has played a leading role in contemporary analysis of the avant-garde. Through his work The Return of the Real, Foster aimed to refute Bürger's argument that the neo-avant-garde of the 1960s and 70s had failed, and primarily represented a repetition of the historical avant-garde. As his publisher noted, "after the models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, Foster suggests that we are now...
The Neo-Avant-Garde
The Second World War represented a kind of hiatus for the development of avant-garde art, which had continued more or less unabated since the 1870s, the most recent internationally successful example being the Surrealist movement. After the end of the Second World War and the recalibration of international politics and culture, including the US's consolidation of power as the dominant economic and social force of the era, avant-garde movements began to regroup across continents and media. The...
The Death of the Avant-Garde?
In the 21st century, the question of whether the avant-garde still exists is often questioned. In a sense, the neo-avant-garde movements of the 1970s were the last to be debated and celebrated as unambiguously avant-garde. The term's relevance following the intellectually levelling effects of postmodernism- which challenged the idea that any artistic, cultural, or political position could be more viable than any other - is certainly questionable. For the philosopher Alain Badiou, "today the t...
Mar 25, 2022 · The Avant-Garde style refers to Modern art’s capacity for societal, political, and cultural revolution. Avant-Garde artists aspired to defy accepted artistic criteria in order to develop new paradigms of creation.
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- The Avant-Garde challenges what is considered the norm, mainly in the cultural world. Some view the Avant-Garde as a feature of modernism. Many art...
- Despite the fact that the term Avant-Garde was first applied to creative methods of making art in the twentieth century, it is now used to describe...
- Most of the influential artists who were classified as working in the Avant-Garde art style were known for their contributions within distinctive m...
- Originally a French military word that was used to denote the spearhead of infantry in English, the term Avant-Garde first appeared in the art worl...
Avant-Garde Art of the Early 20th Century. The first three decades of twentieth century art gave rise to a wave of revolutionary movements and styles. First, came Fauvism (1905-8) whose colour schemes were so dramatic and anti-nature that its members were dubbed 'wild beasts'.
Used frequently to discuss artistic contributions to society and culture, avant-garde is responsible for some of the most famous paintings and sculptures in history. But how does one characterize avant-garde art? And who are the forward-thinking artists that took the risks that now define art history? In terms of art, avant-garde is usually ...
Oct 9, 2023 · The Avant-Garde period in art history offered artists the opportunity to present their most unorthodox and Contemporary modes of making and visualizing art in light of viewpoints and concepts that challenged the norm across society, politics, art, and culture.
Jul 25, 2022 · The term avant-garde is generally attributed to the French social theorist Henri de Saint-Simon in the early 19 th century. For Saint-Simon, avant-garde art was that which had a strong moral code and supported social progress, or as he put it “exercising a positive power over society.”
