Avant-garde artists
The avant-garde art movement cannot be defined to one specific group of artists, but instead encompasses artworks and artists that challenge societal or cultural norms in experimental and radical ways. Avant-garde artists create innovative works that play with new kinds of imagery, forms and other elements of visual language.
The beginning of the European avant-garde can be traced back to the mid-19th century, to socialist artist Gustave Courbet whose realist painting style rejected the academic tradition and Romantic art of his time. Being introduced from around this period onwards, the various movements of modern art are all considered as being part of the avant-garde, such as Dada, Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism. These movements are considered avant-garde due to a combination of their innovations in terms of form and visual language, and their alignment with a political party.
Although it often refers to artworks produced during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the term “avant-garde" is also used to talk about art being produced today. It refers to any artworks and artists that push the boundaries of art in creative and radical ways. Find Artsper's selection of avant-garde artists working in a variety of mediums and styles, including Javier Rey and Charlotte Abramow.
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Strange Mermaid In Blue
Marian Williams
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$2,890
Marilyn on Bright Blue
Marian Williams
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,098
Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos
Salvador Dali
Print - 97.8 x 69.9 cm Print - 38.5 x 27.5 inch
$4,500
Jack of Clubs from Playing Cards
Salvador Dali
Print - 65.5 x 51 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.8 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$11,189
Miserable Flat from The Marquis de Sade
Salvador Dali
Print - 52.5 x 42.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.7 x 16.7 x 0 inch
$4,462
Hommage à Konrad Adenauer
Salvador Dali
Print - 52 x 38.5 x 1 cm Print - 20.5 x 15.2 x 0.4 inch
$3,329
Outside The Bull Ring: The Fruit Seller from Carmen
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$4,462
Le Portrait de La Fontaine
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 57 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$1,387
The Horse that Wanted Revenge on the Stag
Salvador Dali
Print - 59 x 79 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.2 x 31.1 x 0 inch
$1,560
Toulouse-Lautrec (From: Quinze Gravures)
Salvador Dali
Print - 45 x 31.5 x 1 cm Print - 17.7 x 12.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,468
Portrait de Calderón (from Calderón: La Vie est un songe)
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 51 x 1 cm Print - 25.6 x 20.1 x 0.4 inch
$3,468
Les suprenes de maillaise liliputiens from Diners a Gala
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 74.9 cm Print - 22 x 29.5 inch
$2,500
Composition for 'from XXe Siecle', No. 16
Joan Miró
Print - 33 x 23 x 0.1 cm Print - 13 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$8,877
The Immaculate Conception
Salvador Dali
Print - 74.9 x 54.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.5 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
A plate, from Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$4,254
Zebulun, from Twelve Tribes of Israel
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$5,618
Tancreds Oath from Marquis de Sade
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$4,462
The Immaculate Conception
Salvador Dali
Print - 60 x 46 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$5,756
Le Cerf se voyant dans l'eau
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 57 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$2,312
Le Corbeau et le Renard
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 57 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$2,312 $2,081
Le Cheval s'étant voulu venger du Cerf
Salvador Dali
Print - 57 x 76 x 0.05 cm Print - 22.4 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,312
Le Chêne et le Roseau
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 57 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$2,312 $2,081
L'Eléphant et le Singe de Jupiter
Salvador Dali
Print - 57 x 76 x 0.05 cm Print - 22.4 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,312
Henry V, from Much Ado about Shakespeare
Salvador Dali
Print - 17.1 x 12.7 cm Print - 6.75 x 5 inch
$3,000
Homage a Leonardo da Vinci - Airplane
Salvador Dali
Print - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm Print - 22 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$1,849
Cat woman on green
Marian Williams
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,023
Strange Mermaid On Yellow
Marian Williams
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$2,890
The Parfait Au Café
Marian Williams
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$2,890
Planetary and scatological visionlithograph
Salvador Dali
Print - 99.7 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 39.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$4,600
Tupperware Travels
Marian Williams
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,734
Venus à la giraffe
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 56.5 x 9.5 x 27.5 cm Sculpture - 22.2 x 3.7 x 10.8 inch
$8,091
La Trahison des Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe)
René Magritte
Print - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$902
Pantocrator - Christ In His Majesty (Tarot 3 of Coins)
Salvador Dali
Print - 75.9 x 54.3 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.875 x 21.375 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Homage to Newton (bronze sculpture)
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 37.1 x 16 x 7.1 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 6.3 x 2.8 inch
$19,500
