Avant Garde

Avant Garde
What is Avant Garde???
In my opinion, I think Avant Garde is a trend of artistic movement that highly occurred during 1860 to 1960. Avant Garde had various ways of different artistic variation, and all Avant Garde works were innovative and unconventional. During the time, Avant Garde tried innovative artistic skills, but at the same time, they had some rules that they had to follow. The movement started in France, and the work Avant Garde signifies "advanced guard" in Frence. Many variations of the Avant Garde movement were highly artistic, and there are two that I especially focused on: Die Brucke and Op Art


Die Brucke

Die Brucke is an artistic movement started in Germany in 1906 by a group name Die Brucke. Die Brucke means "The Bridge" in German. Die Brucke started their technique as an answer to the influence of Munchs social pessimism and the color of Fauvist paintings. Their technique was trying to create unsophiscated and distorted images. The woodcut by Die Brucke was especially had rigorously graphic buildup and abbreviation of form that made Die Brucke special. Also sometimes they created sexual images.


Op Art
Op art is an artistic movement that started from Bauhaus school of Art in Germany. It was created by an artist name Walter Gropius. Op art is an art using techniques of optical Illusion. Optical Illusions can occur by using black and white and also many different colors. Optical arts are drawn in 2 dimensions but it looks like 3 dimension, and that is the interesting thing about op art. Interestingly, the artists use eye's response to the pictures. It is very interesting art technique.