COLLECTION 2 - AVANT-GARDE

242 KALTBLUT
Max Ernst
And so, successfully society in the 20s and
the 60s-70s falls apart; no other eras are
so soaked in alcohol and so freely high on
drugs. Many groups of people temporarily
destroy what destroyed them, they don’t
want families anymore, they don’t want anything
others want from them, they wanna
see and do things for themselves and just
have fun, far away from those who want to
stay with the conservative part.
Avant-garde is part of these people, a form
of art that demands to be set apart as an
alternative to the mainstream forms of
art, art that experiments, challenges and
can have fun. All good and holy is demolished,
and now it’s all about the vulgar,
the absurd, the cruel and the irrational.
The Freudian dreams take over the people,
artists, art lovers, underground groups
in society. In great horror and despair the
preachers of tradition and stativity witness
how madness and chaos and loss of inhibitions
are no longer detestable but constitute
fine art.
Then finally what the 20s and the 60s-70s
share is the explosion in music, and all kinds
of art. The kind of music is very important
here. In the roaring 20s it’s jazz and in the
swinging 60s it’s rock. Both forms of music
representing the ritualistic, the mad, raw
and dreamlike essence that defines Avantgarde
art.
Much like Avant-garde, these kinds of music
are very political as well. Many experimental
artists collaborate with musicians
or influence each other. Arts are literally
taking over and intertwining. From Avantarde
springs abstract expression, concept
art, Dadaism, surrealism and so much more
that will keep shaping the world of art and
the minds of people forever.
Beside the striking similarities between the
specific decades and the realization that
Avant-Garde, limit pushing and experimental
as it might be, shapes a society and becomes
involved in it like no other art movement
can, one thing is clear:
AVANT-GARDE IS REVOLUTION!
Andy Warhole