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Understanding Avant-Garde
So, what is actually meant by Avant-Garde?
As applied to art, avant-garde means art that is innovative, introducing or exploring new forms or subjects.
Explanation of Avant-Garde
Avant-garde was originally a French term, which means that in the British pioneer or facial guard (part of the troops that stepped forward from the rest). This first appeared by referring to art in France in the first half of the nineteenth century, and usually credited to thinkers influential Henri de Saint-Simon, one of the predecessors of socialism. He believes in the social power of art and see artists, along with scientists and industrialists, as new community leaders. In 1825 he wrote:
Our artists will serve you as an avant-garde, the most direct arts: When we want to spread new ideas, we write them on marble or canvas. It is truly an extraordinary destiny for art is implementing positive forces of society, the function of true priesthood and marching in the van [ie. Vanguard] From all intellectual faculties!
The beginning of avant-garde
Avant-garde art can be said to begin in the 1850s with Gustave Courbet realism, which is greatly influenced by early socialist ideas. This was followed by successive movements of modern art, and the term avant-garde is more or less identical to modern.
Some avant-garde movements such as cubism, for example, have focused, especially on form innovation, other such as futurism, de STIJL or surrealism already have a strong social program.
Avant-Garde Development
Although the term avant-garde was originally applied to an innovative approach to making art in the 19th century and early 20th century, this applies to all arts that encourage ideas and creativity limits, and are still used today to describe radical arts or reflects the originality of vision.
The idea of Avant-Garde to capture the idea that art must be judged mainly on the quality and originality of the vision and ideas of artists.
Drive and shaker
Because of its radical nature and the fact that he challenges ideas, processes, and forms that exist; Artists and art works Avant-Garde often go hand in hand with controversy. Read the description of the artwork below to find out about the shock waves it causes.
Avant-garde art often has social or political dimensions for it. Joseph Beuys, who came from the Avant-Garde artist Network, was used as a starting point for the concept that all of them were art, that every aspect of life could be approached creatively and, as a result, everyone had the potential to become an artist. Although a professor of art who was full of passion and charismatic in the Dusseldorf Academy, his relationship with the authority was a storm and he was dismissed in 1972.
Moreover, as we have seen above, this term is one of a collection of dictionaries, acronyms, terms, jargon, or terminology in the field of arts that begins with an alphabet or prefix A, as well as terms associated with A.
Meaning of Avant-Garde in the English, Indonesian (Including Javanese and Sundanese), and Malaysian Translation Dictionary
Apart from discussing the meaning and discussion of the definition, to deepen it further, here we also need to know what the word means in the English, Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese) translation dictionaries, as well as Malaysia (Malay).
For easy understanding, in this glossary post, we will explain it in the form of a list of translations of terms from various types of languages as follows:
- English; Terminology = Avant-Garde.
- Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese translations); Terminology = Avant-garde (Indonesian), Avant-garde (Java), and Avant-bak in Sundanese.
- Malaysian; Terminology = Avant-garde.
Closing
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Footnotes
This glossary post was created by referring to the conclusions of the meaning of definitions from various authoritative relevant references such as Wikipedia, Britannica and several other sources such as MoMA, Tate, ModernArts, and so on. This word is one of a collection of terminology in the field of Art which begins with the alphabet or prefix A. This article wasupdated in Nov of 2024.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=avant-garde
- https://www.britannica.com/search?query=avant-garde
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