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Avant-garde artists: They are generally regarded as "alternative" in the art world because there are many behaviors that cannot be reasoned with common sense. They are active in various artistic activities and often shock the world. They consciously and self-disciplined to resist the threat of assimilation mediocrity in an uncooperative and uncompromising way. The cultural stance of not being afraid of power and kitsch, and the independent personal experience, feeling and creative behavior extend the pursuit and desire of art for the eternal concept of spiritual freedom. "They also emphasize the independent character and critical position of artistic existence itself, seek ways of artistic wildness and other possibilities, and think about the situation and problems of contemporary culture in China.

There is a popular saying now: existence is reasonable. Yes, when we can't give them a hug, then gently touch these avant-garde things with our fingers. 1. Progressive metal:

Avant-garde metal combines the percussion, volume and aggressive elements of metal music with the grand pseudo-classical publicity of progressive rock. Of course, some bands emphasize the influence of one element on another-such as dreamtheater. Compared with other bands, they are more avant-garde-but all bands embody the basic propaganda style in music. Represented by pinkfloyd and queensryche, avant-garde metals surfaced in the late 1980s. At one time, avant-garde metal was quite secretive (although metal music albums like andjusticeforall were as numerous as avant-garde music and were classified one by one), avant-garde metal kept a low profile throughout the 1990s. However, it is popular enough to cause cross-collision, the most famous of which is silentlucidity by queensrych. However, avant-garde metal works did not achieve great economic benefits in the 1990s. Bands such as queensryche and dreamtheater have been symbols of this style for ten years. However, by the end of 1990s, avant-garde metal has undoubtedly become the consistent direction of fanatical backbone.

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2. Art (progressive metal products):

Avant-garde art always shows a kind of aesthetic extremism completely divorced from tradition. They like destruction, advocate novelty, and take "destruction is creation" as their motto. Because the distinction between mainstream culture and marginal culture still exists. In a society, due to the differences in ideology or behavior, the mainstream culture is generally embodied as a kind of power discourse, which is more legitimate and often manifests as the suppression or control of marginal culture. But the marginal culture is not completely passive. According to Foucault's point of view, "in the power system, no one is completely powerless, and we also have the inherent potential to resist and disintegrate decadent power at different positions and nodes." Therefore, the marginal culture always shows a kind of non-cooperation or opposition. Avant-garde art is avant-garde because it is a marginal culture alienated from mainstream culture. In this sense, "avant-garde" is not necessarily novel, and avant-garde is not necessarily traditional. The key lies in its marginal nature. Generally speaking, avant-garde art originated in the west. The avant-garde art in China in the second half of the 20th century originated from the "Star Art Exhibition" or even the earlier "Unknown Painting Meeting". They express the artist's uncooperative attitude towards reality by adopting modernist painting language.

In 1970s, a group of young people began to explore avant-garde art, most of whom had no professional art training. With the reform and opening up, a group of young people with normal education and professional training began to participate in the creation of avant-garde art, which combined western techniques with their own thinking, mostly realistic things of Kohler and Huiwen. In the mid-1980s, there was a creative trend of interest in art for art's sake, and 1989 was a great collection of avant-garde art. This exhibition was the first time that avant-garde art entered the official field, but the consequences of the exhibition were very bad. There is a clear gap between the avant-garde artists and the audience, and there are some setbacks in the exhibition. Since that exhibition, the distance between the avant-garde artists and the audience has been widening, and the avant-garde artists have been depressed for some time. Since 1992, avant-garde artists in China have accepted some large-scale exhibitions, such as Venice International Exhibition, Lyon 22 Exhibition and Sao Paulo 22 Exhibition. Since then, avant-garde artists in China have attracted attention from all sides and gained more and more prestige in the world. However, in China, they are still ignored by people, so people don't have to ask, "Are they creating to sell to foreigners?" Therefore, between 1997 and 1999, they began to be criticized. In order to meet the needs of the situation, avant-garde artists consciously display their works in more public places, such as "shops" and "bars", but does this exhibition mean that avant-garde art is open? In a furniture store in Shanghai, some relaxed, interesting and easy-to-understand things made by avant-garde artists are displayed with the slogan of "escape deeply and explore the beauty of life", but in this way, is avant-garde art really popular?

The avant-garde art in China has suddenly become extremely active, which is not only manifested in the first important exhibition of the art world-the Shanghai Biennale, but also in various galleries with strong fashion flavor, and a few of them have been reported by the mainstream media.

However, this kind of trendy art form, which was originally interpreted as the most vivid, is increasingly appearing in a cruel form. These "works" named avant-garde art push art to the edge of challenging humanity and morality, and call it a dialogue with international art. In this regard, art critic Chen Lvsheng pointed out that China's avant-garde art has been "possessed".

According to the Workers' Daily, many art exhibitions called "Avant-garde Art" are more like an extreme display of the human body, with the theme of injury and self-abuse, which is frightening. Chen Lvsheng said that avant-garde artists are generally regarded as "alternative" in the art world, but the development and performance of avant-garde art in China are often not promoted in a rational way. In the past, the mainstream society's criticism of avant-garde art generally focused on the artistic level, and at most sought theoretical breakthroughs within the ideological scope. Today, this kind of comment on writing is out of date. It is no exaggeration to describe the performance of China's avant-garde art by being possessed. Moreover, this method is heading for the end of the road and has lost its artistic significance.

Some viewers expressed doubts and dissatisfaction with some avant-garde artistic expressions at present. Some said, "It's good to be unconventional, but it's very sad to regard abnormal behavior as art." A teacher who loves art said, "I really don't want my students to see this terrible alternative art."

3.Progressiverock:

Rock and roll, sometimes referred to as progrock, is one of the branches of rock and roll that rose in the late period of 1960. Its connotation is very complicated, and it absorbs the spirit of many other music schools, so its precise scope cannot be clearly defined. The most popular and prosperous period of progressive rock was in the early1970s, and it continues to this day. Progressive rock originated in Britain, and most groups appeared in continental Europe. Only a few bands come from America and Canada. This music style usually combines jazz, classical music, folk songs, world music and other elements, which is different from American rock influenced by R&; B and the influence of country music. After years of accumulation and development, there are also some types of progressive rock, such as symphonic rock, artistic rock, mathematical rock and avant-garde metal.

Progressive rock musicians intend to get rid of the formulaic and bondage of pop music and strive to improve their own music to achieve another type of music, although it often smells a lot of classical and jazz influences. The unique convenience of Progressive rock lies in its "complexity" rather than its outstanding technology, because there are many musicians who play monotonous music in pop music with outstanding skills.

There is no absolute definition of progressive rock, and RobertFripp, the leader of the famous group King Clayton, hates this word in music classification. The works of progressive rock are mostly concentrated in the1970s, such as JethroTull, Yes, Genesis Choir, Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake &; Palmer, Rush, Quinn and King Clayton. , all have different characteristics and cannot be compared. These musicians and music critics (such as BillMartin) have doubts about whether they really belong to progressive rock (but we have to make this assumption here, at least in the 1970s). At the same time, some people are debating whether musicians who are active in other types of music, such as Frank Zapa, Deep Purple, Fisher Choir, Radio Commanders and Tools, belong to progressive rock.

Generally speaking, avantgarde is a very fashionable way of existence, and even some magazines are named after avantgarde. The former lifestyle is popular among the younger generation and gradually affects the next generation.

4. Portrait:

"Portrait", originally meant to draw portraits of people in Chinese, is the traditional name of figure painting in China. Painting and writing a portrait as if it requires simplicity in form and spirit is called "portrait" Du Fu's poem "Dan Qing presents General Cao": "The general is good at painting to cover the gods, and what he shows is not just the horse, but the life of a good man."

Today's popular "photos" are borrowed from Japanese. As we all know, the Japanese still use 1850 "Chinese characters for use" and a large number of "Chinese words" composed of these words. Many of these "Chinese words" already have the meanings given by the Japanese. In Japanese, "photo" has two meanings. One is "photography" and the other is "photos". A photo studio in Japan is called a photo studio. For China people, today's "photos" can be described as "exporting before importing". Now in the streets of Shanghai, you can also see shops such as "Taipei Photo Studio" and "Garden Photo Studio". Newspapers often see "photos". After the unprofessional interpretation of some stars, the concept of "photo" has become blurred, and the concept planted for most people is that photo is equal to nudity or semi-nudity, or at best, human photography. In fact, taking pictures is photography in Japanese, which is photography. Maybe it changed its face without thinking of going abroad.

When photography technology was introduced into China in the late Qing Dynasty, it was rejected by all walks of life. Under the influence of feudal ethics for thousands of years, exposing the human body is taboo and shameful for both women and men. At that time, even taking pictures was different, let alone body art. After the May 4th Movement, the western wind spread to the east, and the traditional concept of Chinese people began to change. Women threw away the shackles of Chen Zhuli Theory, their minds were liberated, and their clothes were also liberated. When the openness of ideas and clothing was integrated into photography, China people began to get in touch with western body art. However, although the photographer clearly knows the connotation of the photo, the extension of the photo is understood by laymen who don't understand art in various ways.

The exact time when the "photo album" was introduced into China cannot be verified. When most citizens first came into contact with this word in an interview, it represented a stain in the entertainment circle-shooting an "album" was similar to shooting a third-grade film. Can't blame others for ignorance, who let these stars hype themselves so much? With the increase of photo album stars in the mainland, people find that the protagonist of the photo is different and the style of the photo is different. Original photos are not necessarily nude photos, such as life photos. Although we have gradually got a correct understanding of "photos", "photos" still continue the real taste.

After the Australian women's football team took a collective photo album calendar because of the "livelihood" problem, 12 female track and field stars in Australia and the United States also exposed various "artistic shapes" printed on the calendar, creating an "explosion" effect with their personal photos. Australian track and field athlete Okaf is one of the figures in the photo calendar of female track and field stars. She said, "This is a style and a fashion. We are all world-class athletes with brains. The photos we took were healthy. Forget it. As athletes, we don't want to appear only as an image that can run, jump and cross the bar. We have many other things worth knowing. " She also stressed: "Look at the statue of David in the museum. It is a naked male body, but it has become a great artistic image. In today's era, if someone says that women can't show their sexiness, then he is definitely a sexist. " ("Sydney Dream" photo of Australian female athletes-almost half of the models are water athletes. I hope readers can accept this display, because everything is for art. Li Ao, a "madman" in Taiwan Province Province, who is famous for his arrogance, went crazy again at the age of 65 and started a nude portrait of China literati. Although people were surprised, it didn't cause any sensational social effects. It seems that society's tolerance for portraits is getting wider and wider. It is reported that as early as 1987, a photo studio in Wuhan took the first step of commercial human body photography at the request of customers. After more than ten years, it has gradually become a climate to "take pictures" of yourself. Young girls in Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan and other places have stopped chasing idol albums. They regard selfies as a fashion and bravely "sacrifice" in front of strangers' cameras.