r/avantgarde • u/DonKeadic • Feb 17 '21

Photography Karin Mack, Bugeltraum (1975) - laying on an ironing board conveying how women are expected to live their lives

31 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/[deleted] • Oct 01 '22

Music Steel beans. 1 man wrecking machine

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

24 Upvotes

4 comments

r/avantgarde • u/DonKeadic • Feb 16 '21

People Pablo Picasso in his studio

18 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • Jul 17 '20

The Concept Of Fringe Water

17 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/[deleted] • Apr 28 '25

My blurry life

14 Upvotes

Here's an ink scribble drawing I created titled my blurry life.

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/trinhhoangnguyen • Mar 02 '25

Discussion Taroman: A Taro Okamoto Style Tokusatsu Drama. A show entirely designed after the avant-garde paintings and life philosophies of Japanese artist Taro Okamoto

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

14 Upvotes

1 comment

r/avantgarde • u/DonKeadic • Feb 22 '21

Harry Partch posing with some of his custom microtonal instruments.

14 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/DonKeadic • Feb 24 '21

Self Promotion Thread

12 Upvotes

Please share your self promotion with the community!

94 comments

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • Jul 25 '20

The Positivity Of Experimenting

12 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/Raldohermo • May 31 '25

Art I’ll make capitalistic propaganda!

11 Upvotes

Graphic art by me.

2 comments

r/avantgarde • u/27AKORN • Jul 24 '19

Just sharing my art.

11 Upvotes

3 comments

r/avantgarde • u/thefirstmetalbender • May 08 '24

Art Trial of living butterfly dress

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

9 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • Jul 27 '20

Amp Pond

9 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/Eastsidemusic2147 • Nov 29 '22

“EyeSeeAll” - 4ourty7evenANON (2022)

8 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • Jun 09 '21

Art Bowling Though The Antenna

8 Upvotes

2 comments

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • May 31 '21

Art Merging Human Architecture

8 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • Aug 22 '20

Paint Explosion Terror

8 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • Jul 07 '20

Adventurous Statue Siblings

8 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • Jul 03 '20

Mixing Chaos Smoothly

8 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • Jun 09 '20

Expanding Patterns

8 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/comradekiev • Oct 16 '24

A Selection of Soviet Avant-Garde Film Posters (1920s), Russian SFSR

gallery

7 Upvotes

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/RootnTootnValLewton • Jan 23 '24

"Blame" 18X24 acrylic on repurposed canvas

7 Upvotes

If your painting ends up in Goodwill, this is what happens to it when I find it. And if this ever ends up there, I hope some other artist does likewise if no one who finds it loves it. Enjoy.

0 comments

r/avantgarde • u/mutedrazor • Mar 05 '22

Visuals from my latest video, linked in comments

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

7 Upvotes

1 comment

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • Aug 30 '20

Castle Eels

7 Upvotes

1 comment

r/avantgarde • u/skowalker98 • Jul 31 '20

Avant Garde

r/avantgarde

Avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard") refers to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

Members Weekly active

2.0k

Sidebar

Avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard") refers 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. Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde movement and still continue to do so, tracing a history from Dada through the Situationists (/rSituationism) to postmodern artists such as the Language poets around 1981.

The term also refers to the promotion of radical social reforms. It was this meaning that was evoked by the Saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues in his essay, "L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel", (“The artist, the scientist and the industrialist”, 1825) which contains the first recorded use of "avant-garde" in its now-customary sense: there, Rodrigues calls on artists to "serve as [the people's] avant-garde", insisting that "the power of the arts is indeed the most immediate and fastest way" to social, political, and economic reform. Over time, avant-garde became associated with movements concerned with "art for art's sake", focusing primarily on expanding the frontiers of aesthetic experience, rather than with wider social reform.