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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" [1] Saint-Simon was a French Utopian socialist and predecessor of Karl Marx. [2] 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! [3]


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 in Saint-Simon's beliefs of socialism they still consider themselves part of this movement he first began.

Avant-garde started with realism, specially Gustave Courbet. He was strongly influenced by the ideas of socialism, Following the ideas of socialism Th avant-garde movement began with Expressionism specially with Avant-garde can be said

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.

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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
  • Szabolcsi, M. (1971). Avant-Garde, Neo-Avant-Garde, Modernism: Questions and Suggestions. New Literary History, 3(1), 49-70. doi:10.2307/468380