avant-garde

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.