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Know Avant-Garde, an art and thought movement that challenges every world's rules, from art to fashion to architecture.

If there is a word that is used most often in the art world,

Fashion

Architecture

Music

And design.

That word could be the word

Avant-Garde

But the interesting thing is,

Many people use this word.

Without ever knowing what it really means.

Some people think it's style.

Some people think it's fashion.

Some people think it's a freak job.

But in fact,

Avant-Garde is not a style.

But it's "way of thinking."

A way of thinking that dares to challenge everything the world ever believed in. 🚀

Here are 50 stories about Avant-Garde you should know.

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⚔️ the origin of the word.

1.Avant-Garde is French

2. Translated directly as "striker."

3. Formerly used in military

4. Refers to units that walk ahead of the army.

5. Later adopted in the art scene

6. Means people who walk ahead of society

7. Means a new experimenter

8. Referring to those who challenge the original beliefs

Cor.

🎨 beginnings in the art world.

9. Became prominent in the 19th century.

10. Happens against traditional art

11. Anti-Academic Art

12. Against old statutes

13. Support trials

14. Support for new ideas

15. Support for questioning

16. Believe that art should push society

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🖼 Major movements

17. Impressionism

18. Cubism

19.Futurism

20. Dadaism

21. Surrealism

22. Constructivism

23. Suprematism

24. Bauhaus.

All these movements

Used to be considered "crazy."

Before becoming art history.

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⚡ Main concept

25. Challenge the original rules.

26. Not afraid of failure.

27. Question of authority

28. Trial before others

29. Looking at the future rather than the present.

30. Accept imperfections.

31. Value the idea.

32. Believe that art can change the world.

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🏛 Avant-Garde in design.

33. Influence the Bauhaus.

34. Influence on Modernism.

35. Influence on Minimalism.

36. Influence on Parametric Design.

37. Influence on Digital Art

38. Influence on UX Design.

39. Influence on Graphic Design.

40. Influence on Architecture

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👗 Avant-Garde in Fashion

41. Rei Kawakubo

42.Yohji Yamamoto

43. Issey Miyake

44. Martin Margiela

45. Alexander McQueen.

46. Iris van Herpen.

These designers

Didn't design the clothes.

But designing an "idea."

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🚀. What many people don't know.

47. Avant-Garde is often opposed in its own era.

48. Many works have been ridiculed.

49. Many concepts were seen as impossible.

50. What used to be Avant-Garde often became mainstream in the future.

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🎯. Interesting thing.

If it goes back 100 years,

Picasso's painting.

Was seen as a freak.

Bauhaus building

Was seen as too ordinary.

The work of Zaha Hadid.

Was seen as not actually built

Rei Kawakubo's fashion

Was seen as unattractive

But time proved that.

These are not wrong.

They're just born before time.

This is the centerpiece of Avant-Garde.

Not to be weird, to be weird.

But to see the future.

Before anyone else can see

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🌿 Wrap-up

Avant-Garde is not a style.

Not a shape.

Not color.

And not fashion.

It's an attitude.

Of people who dare to question

Dare to experiment

And dare to imagine the world in a way that doesn't exist yet.

Because in history,

What really changed the world.

It's often not something everyone agrees on the first day.

But it's often something that's seen as "too weird."

Before becoming the world's new standard one day. ✨

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... Read moreจากประสบการณ์ส่วนตัว ในการเรียนรู้และทำงานเกี่ยวกับการออกแบบ ทำให้ผมเห็นว่า Avant-Garde คือแรงบันดาลใจสำคัญที่สะท้อนความกล้าคิดนอกกรอบและทดลองสิ่งใหม่ๆ ในทุกมิติของการสร้างสรรค์ ตั้งแต่ศิลปะเชิงทดลองจนถึงแฟชั่นที่ดูเหมือนไม่เป็นไปตามมาตรฐานทั่วไป เช่น งานของ Rei Kawakubo หรือ Zaha Hadid ที่ตอนแรกถูกวิจารณ์หนักแต่ภายหลังก็ได้รับการยอมรับอย่างกว้างขวาง ความน่าสนใจของ Avant-Garde คือการที่มันไม่ยึดติดกับรูปแบบหรือความสวยงามแค่ภายนอก แต่เน้นที่แนวคิดและการตั้งคำถามต่อกรอบเดิมๆ ซึ่งทำให้เกิดการพัฒนาและเปลี่ยนแปลงในวงการศิลปะและการออกแบบอย่างต่อเนื่อง มีความรู้สึกว่าวิธีคิดนี้ช่วยให้เรากล้าเปิดใจรับสิ่งที่แปลกใหม่ และเข้าใจว่าความล้มเหลวไม่ใช่จุดสิ้นสุด แต่เป็นก้าวหนึ่งของการทดลองเพื่อการเติบโต โดยเฉพาะในยุคที่เทคโนโลยีและสื่อดิจิทัลทำให้การออกแบบมีความเป็นไปได้ใหม่ๆ มากมาย Avant-Garde จึงเหมือนทั้งกระจกสะท้อนและกรอบชี้นำให้เราได้มองอนาคตที่ยังไม่ได้เกิดขึ้น นอกจากนี้ การเรียนรู้ถึงการมีผลกระทบของ Avant-Garde ต่อขบวนการสำคัญเช่น Bauhaus, Minimalism และ Digital Art ก็ทำให้เห็นภาพที่ชัดเจนว่าแนวคิดนี้ไม่ได้จำกัดแค่ในศิลปะหรือแฟชั่นเพียงอย่างเดียว แต่ยังขยายไปถึงสาขาต่างๆ ที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการสร้างสรรค์และนวัตกรรม ความคิดของ Avant-Garde จึงยังคงมีชีวิตและเติบโตอย่างแท้จริงในยุคปัจจุบันและอนาคต ด้วยวิธีคิดที่กล้าท้าทายและมองล้ำหน้าก่อนใครเสมอ

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