I'll avant your garde....

This week in World Literature we have been learning about the artistic movement of avant garde. It is generally known as a movement that has ideas that are ahead of the present time. It advances the concepts of art without crossing the artistic barriers and limits of the day.

My selected movements within avant garde begin with Cubism. Cubism orignated in France in the early 20th century and spread throughout Europe and the world for the next 30 years. It emphasizes the process of destruction and reconstruction of a picture, idea, or scene into a mix of different basic geometric shapes. Cubism's greatest representatives include Pablo Picasso of Spain and Georges Braque of France. Picasso's greatest piece is considered to be Guernica-an enormous shape reconfiguration of the hectic scene as bombs were dropped on the town of Guernica, Spain during the Spanish Civil War under the rule of Fascist dictator Francisco Franco in the late 1930s.

The next movement I picked was Surrealism. Again, this movement was centered in France, but was spread through Europe. Andre Breton was credited for coining the term "Surrealism," and this type of art depicts the subconscious of the arstist's mind and cannot usually be logically understood by a viewer. Famous surrealist artists include the well-know Salvador Dali and his famous piece, The Persistence of Memory, and Rene Magritte.

Avant-garde is AWESOME!!!!!!