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Avant Garde

In French, the word avant-garde means "advanced guard" and they are the soldiers that go in front, they explore the territory before a fight and analyze the enemy. They are advanced and have knowledge like no one else has. Likewise, in art, avant-garde is a group of artists that are advanced by using new techniques and not following tradition.

• non-traditional
• new Techniques
• Modern Art

History

As mentioned above avant-garde is the movement in the 19th-century and 20th-century that was recognized by artists who didn't follow tradition. may of the world's most prominent artists are considered avant-garde but who began using this term?

the Begining

The term avant-garde was first used in art by Henri de Saint-Simon a socialist. As the art historian Donald Egbert said "It has never previously been pointed out, I believe, that the figurative use of the word avant-garde to denote radically progressive leaders of both art and society" Saint-Simon was a French Utopian socialist and predecessor of Karl Marx. In Egbert's paper, The Idea of Avant-Garde in Art and Politics, he explains how Saint-Simon believed that artists were best fitted to change the society and how in his Opinions litteraires, philosophiques et industrielle he said:

It is we, artists who will serve you as an avant-garde, the power of the arts is in fact most immediate and most rapid: when we wish to

spread new ideas among men, we inscribe them on marble or canvas. What a magnificent destiny for the arts

is that of exercising a positive power over society, a true priestly function and of

marching in the van [i.e. vanguard] of all the intellectual faculties!

In this simple quote, he talks about many important things. He talks about the power art, in general, has and how avant-garde has very important. Art has been a method of communication of ideas, ideas that artists what to spread and that is why it has power. Avant-garde is a type of art that spreads new ideas that are going to change society and being in this movement is a smart choice. The key word in this quote is new, as it is what defines artists in this movement and even though many artists don't follow or believe Saint-Simon's beliefs of socialism they still consider themselves part of this movement he first began.

With realism, French painter Courbet is known to be the first Avant-garde artists just as he is considered the start of Modern Art. We can conclude that Modern Art and avant-garde go hand in hand.

Up to the present

• In the past a few, now soo many
• Maybe no new arists is going to be a Monet but they still have the same goals
• The art develops around the world's problems
• New techniques / New Culture

Protagonists

• Impressionism
  • Claude Monet
  • Renoir
  • Pissaro
  • Manet
• Post-Modernism
  • Cezanme
  • Degas
  • Seurat
  • Van Gogh
• Cubism
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Duchamp
  • Gaugin
• Abstract Art
• Kandinsky

Deliverable

National Gallery

• Is just behind the Louvre
• Art from all the periods
• 1700-1850 is my favorite
• Modern Art/ Avant Garde is located here
• This was the gallery I found the most artists
  • Had to divided by room
    • I choose this room but all throughtout the green zone you can find more modern art artists
• From Monet to Pissarro

Tate Modern

• Best Placefor Modern Art
• The artists are mixed from present
• I decided to focused on sculptures from the artists in the backwroung
• There is so much are that you forget that the walls are there

Unit London

• Looks simple from the outside but has some of the best modern art in London
• You can see culture, Emotions, techniques

Serpentine Gallery

• has a purpose
• the Pavillion has a purpose
• both galleries have a purpose
• War and discrimination
• Awareness

Egbert, D. (1970). The Idea of avant-garde in Art and Politics. Leonardo, 3(1), 75-86. doi:10.2307/1572057

Egbert, D. (1970). The Idea of avant-garde in Art and Politics. Leonardo, 3(1), 75-86. doi:10.2307/1572057

T. (n.d.). Avant-garde – Art Term. Retrieved June 18, 2017, from http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/avant-garde