avant-garde
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Nearly 60 works introduce audiences to her unique modernist perspective that, over the course of her career, shifted her vision from traditional realism to one that was expressively avant-garde.
After giving up a baby for adoption at age 20, she moved to New York in 1967 and hung out with avant-garde artists and musicians.
As recently as February, the touring French avant-garde company Ballet Preljocaj brought its strikingly effective “Swan Lake” to Santa Barbara, updated to evoke a modern environmental catastrophe.
From Los Angeles Times
And as an avant-garde artist — an aggressively purposeful one — he was shut out from the tradition-minded French cultural establishment for virtually the entirety of his career.
From New York Times
One of the most traditionally structured exhibits tells the story of avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, whose influential career has spanned over six decades.
From Seattle Times
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