Avant Garde

Avant Garde is a term derived from the French military word meaning "before the group", or "vanguard". In art, the term Avant Garde refers to the artists or concepts of a strikingly new, experimental, or radical nature for the time.* For our purposes, it refers more specifically to the number of artists who immediately preceded the Post-Impressionists, and who offered up new and different ways to express themselves in their art. The turn of the century brought innovative ways of thinking about science, physiology and psychology, and these ideas are reflected in the works of the artists we have listed here. And as always, if you don't see the image you are looking for, contact us. We can still recreate it.

*Art History: Eighteenth to Twenty-First Century Art, Third Edition; Marilyn Stokstad; Pearson Education (2009)