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avant-garde

[uh-vahnt-gahrd, uh-vant-, av-ahnt-, ah-vahnt-, a-vahn-gard] / əˌvɑntˈgɑrd, əˌvænt-, ˌæv ɑnt-, ˌɑ vɑnt-, a vɑ̃ˈgard /


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Nearly 60 works introduce audiences to her unique modernist perspective that, over the course of her career, shifted her vision from traditional realism to one that was expressively avant-garde.

From The Wall Street Journal

After giving up a baby for adoption at age 20, she moved to New York in 1967 and hung out with avant-garde artists and musicians.

From The Wall Street Journal

The show aims to dispel myths and disclose secrets about Rousseau—a misunderstood, self-taught artist who, labeled naïve, was simultaneously celebrated and mocked by the Parisian avant-garde.

From The Wall Street Journal

Were it not for a glitching credit card machine, I would have added an avant-garde upcycled white shirt to my collection.

From Los Angeles Times

An avant-garde butoh troupe is busily performing its own erotic version in Tokyo.

From Los Angeles Times