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    Q: What Is Avant-Garde and Modern in Art? Explain Through Examples of Art

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    Q: What is Avant-garde and modern in art? Explain through examples of Art.

    In terms of art, Avant-garde is traditionally used to describe any artist, group or style, which is
    considered to be significantly ahead of the majority in its technique, subject matter, or
    application. The term was reportedly first applied to visual art in the early 19th century by the
    French political writer Henri de Saint-Simon, who declared that artists served as the avant-garde
    in the general movement of social progress, ahead of scientists and other classes. However, since
    the beginning of the 20th century, the term has retained a connotation of radicalism, and carries
    the implication that for artists to be truly avant-garde they must challenge the artistic status, that
    is, its aesthetics, its intellectual or artistic conventions, or its methods of
    production to the point of being almost subversive. Using this interpretation,
    Dada (1916-24) is probably the ultimate example of avant-garde visual art,
    since it challenged most of the fundamentals of Western civilization.

    The Italian Renaissance was probably the single


    most avant-garde era in the history of painting and
    sculpture. Figures from the Biblical Holy Family
    were represented in an entirely natural manner, a
    radical departure from Byzantine, even Gothic,
    artworks. In addition, nudity became not only
    acceptable, but the noblest type of figurative imagery. Witness
    Masaccio's Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (1426, Brancaccio
    Chapel, Florence) by Masaccio, and the hypermodern bronze sculpture
    David by Donatello (c.1440, Bargello Museum, Florence).

    Not until the dust settled after the French


    Revolution did artists really begin to experiment
    again. It began with landscape painting. A new
    plein-air tradition was initiated by Corot and
    others from the Barbizon School; the German
    symbolist painter Caspar David Friedrich injected
    his landscapes with a new form of romanticism;
    and the genre was taken to even higher and more extraordinary levels by the English genius
    JMW Turner. History painting, too, became avant-garde with works like Goya's Third of May,
    1808 (1814, Prado, Madrid), which had no heroes and no uplifting message.

    The most iconoclastic movement of all time is perhaps Dada, founded by Tristan Tzara (1896-
    1963) which ignited in Zurich in 1916 before spreading to Paris,
    Berlin and New York. Dadaists rejected most, if not all, bourgeois
    values of visual art, in favor of a heady mixture of anarchism and
    hypermodern innovation. The latter
    included a number of subversive ideas
    which are now seen as relatively
    mainstream, such as the creation of
    junk art from 'found objects'
    (Duchamp's 'ready-mades'), and the
    introduction of 3-D collage (Schwitters' Merzbau).

    The next really avant-garde school was Impressionism. The first major movement of modern art
    which turned color conventions upside down. All of a sudden, grass could be red and haystacks
    could be blue, depending on the momentary effect of sunlight as perceived by the artist. Today,
    Impressionism may be seen as mainstream, but back in the 1870s the public, as well as the arts
    hierarchy, were scandalized. As far as they were concerned, grass was green, and haystacks were
    yellow and that was that.

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    Reference:

    https://www.widewalls.ch/avant-garde-movement-theater-music-photography-contemporary-art/
    https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/avant-garde

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