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Originally Posted by m21sniper
There's that fking term avant garde again. I feel ill.
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Per Wikipedia, “avant-garde” means:
"advance guard" or "vanguard” The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm.
From this and the prior quote I would conclude that if you are pushing the boundaries of what was done before, it is “art” and "creative", if you are replicating prior work it is “craft”. So we may not understand what someone else is trying to do, but that doesn't diminish it as art. I don't understand or particularly like the monster clothespin or the giant"LOVE" in Philly (seems pretty insipid to me) but I am not going to discount them, either.