avant-garde artist

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avant-garde
adjective
uk
/ˌæv.ɑ̃ːˈɡɑːd/us
/ˌæv.ɑ̃ːˈɡɑːrd/
Avant-garde ideas, styles, and methods are very original or modern in comparison to the period in which ...
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artist
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɑː.tɪst/us
/ˈɑːr.t̬ɪst/
someone who paints, draws, or ...
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Duchamps himself made his way as a prominentavant-gardeartistby developing provocative aesthetic practice in the closest possible proximity to the everyday commercial world.
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Just being a femaleavant-gardeartistis scandalous.
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These avant-garde artists became concerned with the new cities (cités nouvelles).
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In contrast, abstract avant-garde artists found themselves in an unenviable position.
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Doris appears to be the mostavant-gardeartistin class, as she believes her painted art doesn't need to look like anything, as long as it makes her happy.
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Slimane was known for working with emerging avant-garde artists.
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The phrases could well apply to the fates of avant-garde artists and thinkers.
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The main aim is to support avant-garde artists of all disciplines, architects and art-scientists having reached the age of 50 and over.
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A host of international expatriate artists and avant-garde artists of the 1960s and early 1970s were invited to display their work there.
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She encouraged additional avant-garde artists of the time to weave tapestries based upon their easel paintings.
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This controversial exhibit hosted 48 contemporary avant-garde artists.
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This organization, a federation of local cultural societies and avant-garde artists, was most prominent in the visual, literary, and dramatic fields.
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However, geometric abstraction can not only be seen as an invention of 20th century avant-garde artists or movements.
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In music, with the advances on recording technology, avant-garde artists started experimenting with cutting and pasting since the middle of the twentieth century.
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Many avant-garde artists thus turned to photomontage as an alternative mode of expression which could side-step around the rigid restrictions being put on painting.
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He was acquainted with the avant-garde artists of the time.
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After 1914, avant-garde artists began to consider and investigate many things that had once seemed unimaginable.
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Padegs deliberately strove to shock the morality of his contemporaries (as did avant-garde artists), to bewilder the upper and middle class by the squalid tragedy of the streets.
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