Avant-Garde..

Avant-Garde is a term in English to describe people or their works which are particularly innovative or experimental, this can be applied across a lot of fields such as art, culture and politics.
        Avant-Garde often invokes controversy as the whole idea of it is to push the boundaries of the norms or art and culture. Avant-Garde happens every day and is also part of the changing education system and its advances in technology. For example art is more and more now being done on computers and electronically. There is now no need to print off posters as we now have electrical advertising boards which can hold thousands of posters on a constant reel for a relatively low cost in comparison to the money wasted on paper, glue and man power.

This the 'Matrix of Sensations' by Donald Kuspit and basically ratifies everything i have said about avant-garde.
This painting means nothing to someone who doesn't know the story or who isn't the artist themselves. Very abstract
and uses colours to be colours not make up the shade of someones face. 

      Avant-Garde can be traced back to the start of surrealism which was essentially the start of all things  controversial considering it was a very controversial movement anyway. The term was originally used to describe the first line of an army or the advanced-gaurd. These were the first soldiers to enter the fray and if we parallel this to artists they were the artists who were trying new things and breaking boundaries of normal social and cultural conventions. The Avant-Garde artists often come up with weird and wonderful creations but now a days the weird is more than the wonderful. Especially in fashion costumes and dresses are getting even more insane

Lady Gaga Turned up in a dress made of meat, to the MTV  music and video awards