Avant-garde Art
The Origins of the Phrase
Originally, avant-garde was a French military term for what would be called in English the vanguard of an army. However, its first application to art precedes by some decades the emergence of any distinctly avant-garde art movements. The coinage has generally been attributed to the French social theorist Henri de Saint-Simon. In his book
Opinions litteraires, philosophiques et industrielles (
Literary, Philosophical, and Industrial Opinions) (1825), published in the year of his death, Saint-Simon wrote: It is we artists who will serve you as avant-garde . . . the power of the artists is in fact most immediate and most rapid: when we wish to spread ideas among men, we inscribe them on marble or on canvas.What a magnificent destiny for the arts is that of exercising a positive power over society, a true priestly function, and of marching forcefully in the van[guard] of all the intellectual faculties.!
Centered around new acquisitions, Morse spring exhibition and vignette now open
Chinese Blue and White Porcelain is now open.
WINTER PARK, FLA
.-The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art is exhibiting new watercolor and porcelain acquisitions for the first time. These acquisitions expand upon the late 19th- and early 20th-century American visual environment generally and the inner workings of Louis Comfort Tiffanys artistic enterprises specifically.
Watercolors from Louis Comfort Tiffanys Little Arcadia exhibits around a dozen watercolor designs by Tiffany artisans in his enamel department. The Museums new vignette, Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, features examples of in-demand Chinese ceramics ranging from around 1740 to 1890 that adorned the homes and interiors of artists, like Louis Comfort Tiffany (18481933), as well as Western admirers of the Asian aesthetic.
Arts This Week: The Outwin, Currents/Crosscurrents and The Walking Plays A Portrait of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez by Hugo Crosthwaite. Stop-motion drawing animation (3:12 min.), 2018
Collection of the artist, courtesy Luis De Jesus Los Angeles and the Springfield Museums
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This week, Jared Bowen brings us a Smithsonian exhibition on portraiture and an Addison Gallery exhibition you must see before it closes. Plus, an encapsulation of âThe Walking Playsâ presented by the Lyric Stage Company of Boston. Legacy by Wayde McIntosh. Oil on Dibond, 2017
Collection of the artist, courtesy of Springfield Museums
Every three years, the Smithsonian National Portrait gallery hosts the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Artists from around the country are invited to submit portraits, and in 2019, 50 of the best works from more than 2,600 entries were selected to be showcased in âThe Outwin: American Portraiture Today. Of note, Amy Sheral
The "ARTGAWK" exhibition, drawn from the museum s permanent collection, includes works by Pablo Picasso, Gustav Dore, Juan Miro, James Whistler, Audrey Flack, Andy Warhol and more, as well as regional
West London s High Street windows brought to life during lockdown
High Street Kensington. Photo: Graham Fudger / KCAW.
LONDON
.- Eight artists have been commissioned to take over and transform some of West Londons empty high street retail spaces as part of a major public art initiative called high street windows.
As Londoners are plunged back into full lockdown and galleries and museums are forced to close, high street windows, presented by kcaw, sees artists come forward with a series of vibrant public art pieces that they hope will inspire and support local communities during these difficult winter months.
Taking part in high street windows, the eight artists are creating a series of visual art commissions, displayed on empty shop fronts in High Street Kensington and South Kensington, to engage passers-by but also to pose critical questions about the past and future of our lives. Both areas have been affected by closures of stores in the past year, however, the level of a