List of avant-garde artists
Avant-garde () is French for "vanguard". The term is commonly used in French, English, and German to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art and culture. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Postmodernism posits that the age of the constant pushing of boundaries is no longer with us and that avant-garde has little to no applicability in the age of Postmodern art. Visual artists Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian artist, member of CoBrA) Alexander Archipenko (Ukrainian sculptor) Magdalena Abakanowicz (Polish sculptor) Hans Bellmer (German artist) Joseph Beuys (German artist) Francisco Bores (Spanish painter) Constantin Brâncuși (Romanian sculptor) Georges Braque (French painter) David Burliuk (Ukrainian painter, illustrator) Wladimir Burliuk (illustrator, Jack of Diamonds) Giorgio de Chirico (painter) Joseph Csaky (Hungarian-French sculptor) Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter) Theo van Doesburg (Dutch artist) the founder of De Stijl. Jean Dubuffet (French painter) Marcel Duchamp (French artist) Naum Gabo (sculptor) Pablo Gargallo (Spanish sculptor) Paul Gauguin Alberto Giacometti (sculptor) Albert