2006-09-06 15:45:05 · 4 answers · asked by The Drizzle 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Avant garde (sometimes avant-garde; literally, vanguard) is a French phrase, one of a number of French phrases used by English speakers. It is used to refer to persons or actions that are novel or experimental, particularly with respect to the arts.
See for example: dadaism, cubism, futurism, lettrisme, paradoxism, neoism, etc.
The avant garde was originally concerned with art for the sake of social progress: seeing the artist as the vanguard of a social reform movement. Over time however the term has also come to be associated with movements concerned with "art for art's sake", concerned directly with aesthetic experience rather than social reform, the direct opposite of its original intentions.
Surrealism claims to have transcended the "avant-garde."
2006-09-06 15:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by ted_armentrout 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it is a French expression that, loosely translated, means "in the front," "ahead of others," "innovative."
Avant garde art is art done by artists who are not just imitating others, or part of a movement, but are innovators, movers and shakers.
(Perhaps the answer above is meaning to refer to art nouveau.)
2006-09-06 15:50:41 · answer #2 · answered by X 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i go to scad savannah college of art and design.
well avante garde is when nature and beauty are interwined to make art..purely for aesthetics as well as a functional piece.
ie. an iron post that is in the shape of a flower.
2006-09-06 15:47:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Get Ready
2006-09-06 15:50:21 · answer #4 · answered by da_hammerhead 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋