the avant-garde

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Although Picasso spent much of his career in the avant-garde capital city of Paris, he had a strong emotional and cultural connection to his Spanish roots.
尽管他在前卫之都巴黎度过了他艺术生涯的大多数时期，但他仍然深爱着故土西班牙，并对其文化情有独钟。
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But in general their distinguishing features were beauty; a sense of craft; a strong, confident silhouette; and the marriage of tradition with the avant-garde.
但通常他们的特点都是华丽的设计，精巧的剪裁，强烈而自信的轮廓，还有传统与前卫的完美结合。
Through July, it has sold just 4, 806 units of the avant-garde little model, which goes for about 100 miles on a charge and sells for $34, 570 before tax credits.
7月，这台前卫小车的销售量达到了4,806辆。这款车的税前售价为34,570美元，充电一次能行驶约100英里。

So even though he's very closely connected to the legacy of avant-garde modernism, he's also connected to a social realist strain, the naturalist strain.
虽然怀特,与前卫现代主义的传承，有千丝万缕的关联，但他仍具有现实主义。
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Improbable though it may sound, American Christianity and Gianni Versace shared a taste for the avant-garde.
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The avant-garde (literal translation, advance guard) valiantly leads the rest of the culture into the uncharted future.
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the painters, writers, musicians, and other artists whose ideas, styles, and methods are very original or modern in comparison to the period in which they live, or the work of these artists