Avant Garde

Word AVANT GARDE
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Hyphenation a vant -garde
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Definitions and meanings of "Avant Garde"

What do we mean by avant garde?

A group that creates or promotes innovative ideas or techniques in a given field, especially in the arts. noun

Of, relating to, or being part of an innovative group, especially one in the arts. adjective

Advance-guard. noun

Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the avant-garde. adjective

Characterized by the use of experimental techniques; modern; daring; radical. adjective

The most advanced group of people in any field of endeavor, especially in literary and artistic work, usually characterized by new ideas and experimental techniques. noun

The vanguard of an army or other force. noun

Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts. noun

Innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so. adjective

Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) noun

Radically new or original adjective

The vanguard of an army or other force.

Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.

Avant-garde (pronounced avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard".1 The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. However, this is not true in the case of music as many pieces are still being released which are generally considered avant-garde in popular culture.2 Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde and still continue to do so, tracing a history from Dada to the Situationists to postmodern artists such as the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writers in the 1980's to many art collectives in the "post-postmodernist"3 times of today.4 Urban Dictionary

All things considered to be ultramodern, advanced, or ahead of its time. Urban Dictionary

Displaying ultramodernism or experimental style, especially in art or literature Urban Dictionary

All things considered to be ultramodern, advanced, or ahead of its time. Urban Dictionary

A term used by people who like to give the impression that they are intellectual art connoisseurs when they are trying to "describe" a quality of a piece of art that they dont understand at all and might not even be there. There are a few who use this term correctly (to describe ultramodernism or experimentation in modern art), but most who use it are ignorant and in denial regarding their own artistic mediocrity. Urban Dictionary

A tired old cliche used by people who think they're exotic and cutting edge. Urban Dictionary

The grown-up word for hipster. Anything that dirty, hippie, English-major types use to make regular people feel inadequate and uncultured. Alternatively, anything that regular/already established in their career people would disregard as shit. A term used to protect those "true artists whose genius is just misunderstood." Urban Dictionary

People who just don't give a Fuck. "A Waste." they go against what is onsidered the "Norm" and partake in true innovativeness. they are not a stereotype. only few people are truly "Avant Garde" in the true sense of the term. Urban Dictionary

1. a pretentious way to call something pretentious (if you're an idot/hack/wanker), typically accompanied by a sarcastic smirk of perceived superiority and the speech pattern often associated with witty remarks, but missing the intelligent aspect of such; 2. a segue into snark, when bumbling blowhards overuse the word to describe things that aren't even remotely avant garde; 3. a way to acknowledge the originality (and often, the unconventionality) of a work, typically with the implication that it is advancing its medium rather that simply being ludicrous, whilst eschewing the ethnocentric desire to make such a comment in one's native tongue (assuming you're not French). Urban Dictionary

The French word for "bullshit" Urban Dictionary

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The word "avant-garde" in example sentences

The Academy Award nominations also took note of what some were calling an avant-garde American film. ❋ Nick Clooney (2002)

The very term avant-garde implies an anticipation of society's will: the artist as advance guard, foreseeing trends or events to come. ❋ By WILLIAM ROBIN (2011)

Mr. Jacobs, a beloved figure in American avant-garde cinema, has long been invested in a mode he considers far more natural than the two-dimensional standard. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

“Monsier Girou is what we might call an avant-garde astronomer,” he said. ❋ Dominic Smith (2006)

It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. ❋ By MANOHLA DARGIS (2011)

And then there's Andrew Cyrille, a drummer who has made his name working in the so-called avant-garde strains of jazz, but has lived through much more than that. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Milan allowed Leonardo to be what nowadays we would call avant-garde, then move beyond art altogether. ❋ Martin Gayford (2011)

Gertzman argues that moral reformers during this period were “correct to claim that the traffic in ‘pornography’ was vigorous in the 1920s and 1930s, and that Jews were preponderant as distributors of gallantiana erotic fiction, avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and the most flagitious materials.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Ken Russell, the avant-garde filmmaker behind Women in Love and The Boy Friend, has died. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But he was nervous, Mr. Richardson maintains, that the American Abstract Expressionists "were questioning his leadership of the avant-garde." ❋ Paul Levy (2012)

Mr. Wurm, known for an absurdist conceptual approach inherently at odds with the Klimt legacy, nonetheless places the artist at the very center of Austria's artistic tradition, viewing Klimt's "theatricality" as both a successor to the Austrian Baroque and a precursor of Viennese Actionism, an influential avant-garde movement in the visual and performing arts that flourished in the 1960s. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2012)

Barcelona Art "Build the Revolution: Architecture and Art in Russia 1915-1935" presents 250 works of architecture and art from the Soviet avant-garde, including archival photographs of buildings, drawings, paintings and models. ❋ Unknown (2011)

While Mr. Karathanos's techniques reflect the avant-garde approach he learned under the wing of acclaimed French chef Jerome Serres and the guidance of three-Michelin star Basque chef Martin Berasategui, he prefers applying a bold touch to classic Greek recipes. ❋ Christine Pirovolakis (2011)

For the first of his four Wednesdays at (Le) Poisson Rouge, he began with a diverse mix, from Thelonious Monk's "Ask Me Now," to a semi-classical work by the Haitian composer and guitarist Frantz Casseus (who was also one of Mr. Ribot's mentors), to "Sun Ship," a hard-hitting piece from John Coltrane's descent into the extreme avant-garde. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

Its current show, "Totem," written and directed by the avant-garde Canadian Robert Lepage is almost beyond praise, and certainly defies description. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

your work is so avant-garde, it [speaks] and shows me so many [aspects] at once,it is [beyond it's] time. ❋ Maverick Slade Jack Of Trades (2009)

That [American] Watercolor [Movement] show at [58] was so avant-garde. ❋ Black Scull (2006)

[Performance art] can be considered avant garde in the way it communicates with it's audience addressing them often in a [confrontational] or [interactive] manner. ❋ Zephyr (2005)

That [American] Watercolor [Movement] show at [58] was so avant garde. ❋ Black Scull (2006)

Wow [look at this] [painting].... its so.... avant garde!" "Shut up Jim, [you don't know] anything about art ❋ MikeDelScorcho (2010)

"I would [classify] my art as very Avante Garde" "[You mean] [Pretentious]." ❋ AnotherDrumMachine (2016)

Dirty, [hippie], English-major type: "Have you read my latest [poetry] book?" Normal person: "That was poetry? It was just your [grocery list] repeated in a different order on every page." Dirty, hippie, English-major type: "Ugh! It's avant garde. You just can't understand true art." ❋ Grrrl2013 (2012)

[Jenny] tried to be Avant-Garde but she did not have [a single] [original] thought in her head. ❋ M.A.V (2010)

1. *Looking at [abstract art] and rolling eyes* "This is so avant garde." *smirks, sighs, and walks away to repeat this pattern with all other paintings in MOMA, tiring his/her over-smirked face in the process*. 2. "Have you guys seen Transformers 5 yet?" "No" "It's pretty avant garde guys you should all check it out!" "What do you mean by 'avant garde'?" "I mean uh, that it was pretty damn cool." "[Shut the fuck up and die]." "Heh..." "No really," *pulls out knife due to anti-gun laws* "...I've had it with people like you who hear some word on [O'Reilly's] word of the day and shit it out as if you actually understand what it means and what context it should be used in." *stabs person to death in the skull in a triangular fashion, then pulls out said persons eyes and places them inside the triangular hole, vomits in it, and remarks* "Now that is avant garde." 3. Such and such work: "___insert work here___", "is Avant-garde". ❋ Sudonihymn (2011)

Person 1: "[Post-modernism] is so avant garde." Person 2: "I know. It's quite [awful], [isn't it]?" ❋ Haaaaaze (2009)

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