The spirit of the avant-garde: Insights and prospects for a crossed-eyed art

Abstract

Numerous critical studies to date have been conducted on the avant-garde movements that emerged in Europe and Latin America since the early twentieth century. This paper is a brief review about the main trends and prospects assumed by certain groups and artists of the time. It also includes the opinion these statements aroused among critics and the general public, prompted by a new artistic and literary perspective which invited to contemplate the reality from a kaleidoscopic prism, able of being reinterpreted from very different points of view. Eyes turned towards tradition but newly reborn, looking for the originality, the artifice and the deeper truth of art in the context of the vanguards of new century. Encountered and elusive, innocent and incendiary, these multiple perspectives allow us to understand and to admire the current artistic and literary works.