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What is Avant-Garde?

Avant-garde is originally a French term ‘vangarde’. It first appeared in France is in the 19 th century (Tate, n.d.) . In fine art, it was used to describe some artist or a group and style. It is also considered to be dramatically surpass the majoriy in the subject matter, technique and application (Avant-Garde Art, n.d.) . So, basically avant-garde is more or less synonymous with modernism or those in the forefront of innovative, progressive influences. In early 19 th century the term of avant-garde was first purportedly in visual art by Henri de Saint Simon, a French political writer who stated that artists who hold a post of the avant-garde in the general development of social advancement, in front of researchers and different classes (Tate, n.d.). Anyhow, after the beginning of 20 th century, the term has held a meaning of radicalism, and transfers the suggestion that for artists to be really avant-garde they should challenge the creative the norm as in...

Visual Book.

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About my design. I've been thinking my book title for days, "Facere" was the first name I thought of. It means "Create" in ancient Latin. But after a while I think it was the best to called it "Wear The Art", because it's much more easier to understand. My concept is combine historical painting into fashion and promote about history of art. To me, history is very important because they're the start of designers. I make it into more like a magazine style because it'll look more stylish. My book. Book Cover 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Ideas & Research. When first idea came into my mind was "Fish". Because fish to me is a animals that represent sadness. They only had seven second memories and no ones knows if they cry because they're in the water. (not in science way) So I wanted to do a sewing book that are made by cloth and stitches, but it was too...

Final Project.

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Wear the Art 2.0 CONCEPT   For my final project for Time-Based Design, I used 4 canvas to made a scene that is a mannequin climbing out from canvas. I purposely made a dress for the mannequin and the pattern on the dress is same as the painting on canvas. This is because I want to show that we could combine painting and fashion together jus like what I did for my visual book. The painting I did was inspired by abstract expressionism painter, Jackson Pollock. I was fascinated by his art because he could express his mood by his painting.  In my project, I only used primary colors, which is Red, Blue and Yellow because it looks visually balance, I felt that too much colors will made decrease the feelings of the painting. Also, the meaning of the colors also one of the reason why I chose primary colors. Meaning of the colors: RED :  Red is an energetic color and it is used to represent the strongest and most energetic emotions – love, lust, passion,...