As one of the best-known movements of the Modernist era, Cubism has come to be associated with two major figures, Pablo Picasso , and Georges Braque. It was their experimentations, which helped to reshape the traditional understanding of art and to change the course of it. For a movement to be considered a truly avant garde movement it carries with it an implication that it must shake the core of the status quo.
Like the most powerful protest art, the force of the new art that comes must shake all of the predisposed aesthetic and conceptual ideas about what art is and what it must do.
To the mentioned avant garde movements we owe the birth of the later 20th-century Modern Art ideas such as Surrealism, Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptual Art, Happenings and Performances, whose impact on the contemporary art today we are all witnesses to. The historic function of the avant garde was to complete the redefinition and consequent emancipation of art that began during the eighteen century. A concept inseparable from progress , avant garde demanded art to be revolutionized and redefined.
Challenging every convention, rule and aesthetic idea they could identify, these artists wanted to look beyond the artwork and ask the question about the role of art in the construction of another world. Agreeing that the past should be torn up and cultural clock reset to zero, these creators proposed various combinations of new and old media such as performance, political engagement and metaphysics.
As the most radical and ambitious of all movements, Dada was first to question the concept of art. As movements proliferated, this concept started to reach various fields such as fine arts, music, photography and theater. He has built tje noise machine s that replicated the clatter of the industrial age and the boom of warfare, but none of these instruments and designs survived.
This machine music had a powerful influence on a number of composers of the era, as well as on the contemporary ones.
At the same moment in the United States, John Cage , who considered himself an experimental artist, had a more revolutionary vision. Throughout his practice, Cage promoted altered instruments, sounds of nature, found sounds, the movements of the performer and audience, random noises to the status of music.
He also first introduced the concepts of indeterminacy and randomness into performing and created the so-called aleatoric music. Additionally, he created a concept of the prepared piano , the piano that has been altered by inserting various objects into the soundboard or between the strings to affect the sound.
The end of World War II brought the next period of musical revolution that was based on the most radical ideas of the previous decades and fresh technologies that started to emerge.
In , Pierre Schaeffer created a laboratory in Paris for musique concrete to explore theories of Luigi Russolo. With this musical form that was a type of electronic music using recordings, Schaeffer pioneered found sounds. Karlheinz Stockhausen contributed greatly to popularize all the main techniques of electronic music.
He experimented with electronics, voice, tape and various samples and was interested in the way the sound moves through the space. Additionally, he pioneered subgenres of electro-acoustic chamber music in and live electronic music in With new forms of music proliferating and various centers for avant garde music opening, it ceased to be an exclusive of celebrated composers and became a relatively common phenomenon.
The concept of avant garde music was also applied to radical developments in black American jazz between s and s. Pursuing technical innovations and emotional expression , avant garde jazz was a unique hybrid that combined the extended technique, originality and genius with improvisational skills. Originally synonymous with free jazz, much of the avant garde jazz was distinct from that style. As a uniquely black artform , avant garde jazz emerged during colonial wars, occupations, the Cold War and the struggle for racial and gender equality, and due to these conditions it reflected uncertainty and anguish and celebrated the plebeian and absurd.
Blurring the division between the written and the spontaneous, avant garde jazz was imbued with formal complexity and emotional directness. Still, avant garde jazz was distinguished from other avant gardes by its claims to art , not by a rejection of it.
The rise of photography in the 19th century has created a completely new language for capturing the human image and the world around us. First starting as portraiture photography in photographic studios, the relatively low cost of the daguerreotype led to a general rise in the popularity of portrait photography over a painted portrait. Photography as a medium was arguably avant garde in itself , since having a portrait taken was no longer the prerogative of the very rich.
By the late nineteenth century, many photographers have rejected traditional settings and started to expand the genre of pictorial photography and promote it to High Art. What first started as a simple tool for documentation, became a genuine artistic medium in its own right. When first simple-to-use small format cameras reached the streets, the photography was completely democratized and revolutionized as a medium with various avant garde approaches that greatly affected the visual culture.
Having an untold expressive power and becoming a vehicle of modern consciousness that occurred after the World War I, many avant garde artists turned to photography to capture the soul of contemporary industrial society.
The avant garde photography in France, whose capital served as the unquestioned center of the international avant garde, was rooted in Surrealism that advocated the social transformation by rejecting bourgeois values and conventions.
Surrealist photographers employed techniques such as double exposure, combination printing and reversed tonality to create the imagery that blurred the line between the dream and reality. Russian artists El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko made use of various techniques that served to break the conventions of perception and visual representation such as extreme close-ups, tilted horizons or abstracted forms. This period between the two wars was certainly one of the richest in photographic history and it pushed this medium beyond its previous limits.
Similar to other forms of avant garde, experimental or avant garde theater emerged as a reaction against a perceived general cultural crisis and it rejected both the age and the dominant ways of writing and producing plays. Renouncing bourgeois values and conventions , this fresh concept tried to introduce a different application of language and body in order to change perception and create a more active relationship with the audience.
This started in with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu Roi play that overturned cultural rules, norms and conventions in a wild, bizarre and comic way. This piece had a revolutionary importance as it opened the door for modernism of the 20th century and influenced Dada, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd. Traditionally perceived as passive observers, the role of the audience was first challenged with the rise of the avant garde. The audience became involved in a variety of ways , such as participating in the action on a highly practical level or being invited to feel a certain way in order to change their attitudes, values and beliefs.
This was the case with the didactic agit-prop theater that aimed to make a certain moral or political statement and challenge the values and beliefs of the audience. Avant garde has also challenged and rejected the traditional hierarchical method of creating theater. With performers having more interpretative freedom, they were promoted to creative artists in their own right.
Additionally, traditional conventions of space, movement, mood, tension, language and symbolism were altered. The avant garde theater in France was significantly marked by Dada and Surrealism.
Dadaists appropriated several aesthetic principles for the creation of drama from Futurists, such as the use of simultaneous action and of an antagonistic relationship to the audience.
The introduction of Surrealism by Andre Breton in , who had broken with Dada two years earlier, signaled the death of Dada as and influential avant garde movement. Surrealism was a major force in experimental writing and most celebrated theatrical works were those by Antonin Artaud and Guillaume Apollinaire.
Two lovers in the play constantly change their relationship and interact with various other characters whose identity shifted. Meanwhile, in Russia, the theater became a hotbed of experimentation and a powerful vehicle for revolutionary propaganda.
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Recently viewed 0 Save Search. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Composing Dissent: Avant-garde Music in s Amsterdam Robert Adlington Abstract The s saw the emergence in the Netherlands of a generation of avant-garde musicians including Louis Andriessen, Willem Breuker, Reinbert de Leeuw, and Misha Mengelberg who were to gain international standing and influence as composers, performers, and teachers, and who had a defining impact upon Dutch musical life.
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