Avant Garde: New, experimental, or unconventional. Usually used to describe art.
Surrealism is more complicated. It is an art movement detailed by writer Andre Breton in 1924 in the First Manifesto of Surrealism. The idea behind surrealism is expression without "aesthetic or moral concern." Surrealism combines dream and reality to achieve a fantastic "surreality"
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Environmental art was avant-garde 30-40 year ago. Avant-garde is something new for its time. Impressionism was avant-garde in the 1870s, Expressionism about 1905, etc.
Avant-garde is actually a military term for advance gaurd. In Art History two French painters are viewed as avant-garde, Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, they chose to depict contemporary life as opposed to the Historical themes considered appropriate at the time.
Avant-garde is a French word meaning "vanguard" or "fore-guard" in military language. In science, it means "top of the art", and in art, indicates a style which seeks innovation.
Martin Margiela is a famous fashion designer in Belgium. He graduated from the Royal Academy for Fine Arts on 1979, a year before the avant-garde Antwerp Six.
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