avant-garde
English meaning: Avant-garde (pioneering, experimental art/ideas)
French Definition
(Français)Un terme militaire français signifiant 'garde avancée', devenu synonyme d'innovations pionnières et expérimentales dans l'art, la culture et les idées.
English Definition
A French military term meaning 'advance guard' that came to denote pioneering, experimental, or radical innovations in art, culture, politics, and ideas. France has been the historical center of avant-garde movements — Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Existentialism, Structuralism, and the New Wave cinema. The concept now applies globally to any field's cutting-edge innovators.
Example
“Paris a été le centre mondial de l'avant-garde artistique au XXe siècle.”
In English: “Paris was the global center of artistic avant-garde in the 20th century.”
Synonyms
- innovateurs
- pionniers
Antonyms / Opposites
- tradition
- académisme
- conservatisme
Literary Heritage
“La beauté est toujours bizarre.”
“Beauty is always strange.”
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