Off the Cuff: A Style is Born

A white man with short, grey hair, wearing a blue and white striped buttoned-down shirt, and a pink and blue tie. He is smiling, looking at the viewer, and resting his arm on a white pedestal. On the pedestal is an angular, dark blue glass sculpture.

What do The Beatles, Suprematism, and Abstract Expressionism have in common? Find out in this "Off the Cuff", where President & CEO Charles Shepard discusses how movements, whether musical or artistic, are born.

Art Term Tuesday: Avant-garde

How do we classify avant-garde art? Not to be confused with an art movement, like Impressionism or Abstract Expressionism, the avant-garde are the innovative, experimental individuals who begin the movements we learn about in art history. Read on to find out when an artist can be called avant-garde and who decides!

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