Example sentences for: avant-garde

How can you use “avant-garde” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nearby, at Hanseatenweg 10, the Akademie der Künste (Arts Academy), distinguished by the splendid Henry Moore sculpture outside, holds concerts, plays, and exhibitions of avant-garde art.

  • The couture ball dress and the standard wedding dress do, after all, keep suggesting the possibility, and Madonna's Oscar outfit this year suggests that full gowns have even attained the status of something avant-garde.

  • He was honored as an elder statesman of the avant-garde, housed in Oakland by Bobby Seale, hired as a guest lecturer at Berkeley, embraced by white hippies.

  • Hot Brass (La Villette) and The New Morning (rue des Petites-Ecuries) attract big American and European musicians, while Le Dunois (rue Dunois) is an intimate place, cultivating more avant-garde music.

  • He does not dismiss the latter, recognizing the originality and strength of Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lisitski, and their colleagues, but he wants us to pay attention to those other artists, many more in number, who do not fall seamlessly into the Modernist continuum but who often had to pay as harsh a price for their independence as their better-known avant-garde counterparts.


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