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Avant-Garde

The avant-garde of today are the mainstream arts of tomorrow

Featured Work

0204 by ghastly

Scanner: HP psc1400 Scannoghastly featured in / Avant-Garde – Oct 27, ‘09
Flutterby Flight - Fine Fantasy by KazM

Woodless pencil drawing of a fine Flutterby Flying along a a trail of fairy dust floating in the night air. / Drawn on 110gsm cartridge paper. / More than 50 motes of fairy dust. / BG added in PSE.
Lenore by Jeremy McAnally

2009 acrylic on 24” x 36” canvas. I had this idea a while ago, maybe even a couple of years and now I have finally finished it and I think it may be my best work yet.
Gestalt by Nathan Mayfield

Future
Pebble Doily by MelDavies

Digital play/experiment using a kaleidescope plug in, based on my original acrylic and mixed media artwork ‘Celtic Wood’. FEATURED in ‘Avant Garde’ October 2009
Campaign Memories by Alex Preiss

featured in Avant-Garde digital photo collage
Entourage on envelope by LordMasque

Pen and ink on back of envelope
Purity by Alex Preiss

featured in Avant-Garde Photograph
Scream by andrewpainter

scream

Recent Work

Nina by Philip Gresham

Adobe Illustrator, Painter X.
Companion oil on wood by artistmind

companion / oil on wood / This is an updated version I used more pink tones, but I also have more of the red base painting in my other redbubble collection. myspace.com/artistmind
Interdependence by Lawrence Alfred Powell

For other works see the new art/literature ezine, Le Nouveau Monde Vert, at lnmveditors.50webs.com (LNMV is now accepting art/poetry submissions for the 2009 issue. Email to: lnmveditors@yahoo.co.uk)
Marina Abstract by Alex Preiss

Photograph
Izzy by Jeremy McAnally

2009 acrylic on 22” X 28” canvas. I was playing with metallic paint on this one so unfortunately it can’t be seen online the way it looks in real life.
Writing

Elvis, Change Your Name (the story)…Elvis and Jimi and Ronnie Van Zandt were riding single file through the stirrup-high sagebrush. The high desert sun beat down on them lik…

An alienated teenage boy goes in and out of fantasies about the ‘dead rock-stars’, particularly Elvis Presley.
Pink Meander by Orla Cahill

Digital Art modified from a photograph of tree branches. / Featured in The Sisterhood – 26th March 2009. / Greeting card on a backing colour of black / /
Winter Witch by Janelle McKain

This is the third in a series I am creating dealing with the parallelism between the lunar phases/ women’s ages/ menstrual cycle / and the 4 seasons. / WINTER WITCH: a period of destruction and transformation, an “obscure” phase corresponding to the black moon, the menstrual phase, the “Witch”. / The symbol above her head is the triple lunar goddess symbol….maiden, mother, crone (waxing, full, waning moon) Symbolizing feminine energy and psychic abilities. / The Triquetra symbol is incorporated as well. Original graphite drawing here: / / Aquarelle Arches Watercolor Hot Press paper
The Pout by bev langby

She’s pouting why is it ,to get her own way who knows lol Prepped and finished in photoshop , painted using artists oils in corel painter layers and textures applied …....... FEATURED IN THE GROUP ” ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS’ / 14/05/09 THANKS SO MUCH FEATURED IN THE GROUP ’ DIGITAL BRUSHSTROKES’ 16/05/09 THANK U SO MUCH
Clockworks by Bunny Clarke

I love seeing the inner sytem of a clock or watch. So perfectly matched to work properly. I can’t tell you why this image made me think of this, but it did. :o) Created in Apophysis 3D Hack.
Sunset Hills by Bunny Clarke

Down the fields, across the hills, two friends walk along the way. Enjoying the breezes and the company. Talking about family, friends and art of course. Created in Fractal Explorer.

Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm within the cultural realm. It refers to people or works that are experimental or novel particularly with respect to art culture or politics. In this group, you do not strive to develop just yourself; you strive to develop art for the world: make a difference and change the world of art as we know it. Your work will be controversial. People will claim it not to be art at all, just like people claimed that impressionism was not art when it first came into being. Van Gogh sold no more than one painting during his lifetime, but he changed art forever.

Group avatar is The Blues by Neil Johnson

Just to widen this group a bit (because really, there will be very few works that are avant-garde for the whole of art…), the label avant garde will also refer to works that are the avant-garde OF THEIR TYPE, i.e. works that are using common media in a very, very new way.

Other groups to consider:

Amateur Photographers Association

The Collector’s Corner

Watercolour-pencil Art

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