avant-garde
Also known as Avantgarde, Avangard
thumb|right|300px|Avant-garde cinema, The Love of Zero (1928), a short film directed by the artist Robert Florey
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Avant-garde refers to experimental and innovative work that pushes the boundaries of traditional art forms, breaking away from established conventions to explore new ideas and techniques. It matters because it challenges how we think about art and culture, often inspiring new movements and ways of creating that eventually influence mainstream artistic practice.
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thumb|right|300px|Avant-garde cinema, The Love of Zero (1928), a short film directed by the artist Robert Florey
In the arts and literature, the term avant-garde ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time. The military metaphor of an advance guard identifies the artists and writers whose innovations in style, form, and subject-matter challenge the artistic and aesthetic validity of the established forms of art and the literary traditions of their time; thus, the artists who created the anti-novel and surrealism were ahead of their times.