REBELLIOUSNESS AND DENIAL OF THE AVANT-GARDE
REBELLIOUSNESS AND DENIAL OF THE AVANT-GARDE

Summary/Abstract: Renato Poggioli considers the avant-garde movement to be a "shock, rupture and opening movement at the same time." This description emphasizes the character of a pioneer, denying the past, the model and the old to which he opposes the freedom of the spirit, the fresh approach, the pragmatism and the joy of the playfulness. Manifested in the first decades of the last century, characterized by the rebelliousness and violent denial of already established art, the avant-garde movement proclaims the new, activism, denial of tradition and shifting interest from the result of the work on the creative process itself, it has its final result in innovation, which made the literary critic Ion Pop state: "the flight from the convention, the search for the new, the obsession with authenticity implicitly means the refusal to participate in the enrichment and fortification of the traditional deposit." The quality and, to some extent, the defect of the avant-garde is the total rupture, without another purpose, which made Adrian Marino say about the avant-garde movement: "It is the famous lâchez tout of the surrealists… the brutality of the rupture is so radical that it turns into a real moral explosion." Following in the footsteps of modernism, the avant-garde does nothing but radicalize the break with tradition. The avant-garde radicalizes denial but this is only a form of despair; notions such as good, evil and beauty become simple words in the Dadaist perspective, relativized and stripped of their deep meaning.

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