Belgian avant-garde
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"Belgium was the focus of symbolism, where the work of Félicien Rops, Fernand Khnopff and William Degouve de Nuncques is noted. The first was a painter and graphic artist of great imagination, with a predilection for a theme centered on perversity and eroticism. Khnopff developed a dreamlike-allegorical theme of women transformed into angels or sphinxes, with disturbing atmospheres of great technical refinement. Degouve de Nuncques elaborated urban landscapes with a preference for nocturnal settings, with a dreamlike component precursor of surrealism: his work The Blind House (1892, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo) influenced René Magritte's The Empire of Lights (1954, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels)."--Sholem Stein |
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The Belgian avant-garde is an umbrella term for some 19th century and 20th century art movements.
For example, the architecture of Victor Bourgeois, the poetry of Paul van Ostaijen and the Atomium.
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Literature
- Henri Kistemaeckers, printer
- Auguste Poulet-Malassis, printer, at one time based in Brussels
- Van Nu en Straks and Jacques Mesnil
- Jacques Sternberg
- Paul van Ostaijen
- Michel de Ghelderode
Visual arts
- Les XX
- Le Salon de la Libre Esthétique
- Belgian Symbolism
- Abstract art in Belgium
- Belgian expressionism
- Flemish surrealism
- Brabantse Fauvisme
Architecture
Design
Abstract art in Belgium
Abstract art in Belgium started in 1910 with the then seventeen year old Joseph Lacasse. He was followed by Michel Seuphor, Georges Van Tongerloo, Victor Servranckx, Jozef Peeters, Gilbert Decock and Gilbert Swimberghe, who are part of the geometrists and Louis Van Lint, Maurits Wyckaert, Serge Vandercam, Engelbert Van Anderlecht and Jaak Vanderheyden as lyricists. Felix de Boeck also had an abstract period in his career as painter.
Abstract art is also known as zuivere beelding.
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Performing arts
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References
- De introductie, verspreiding en vestiging van jazz in België. Een socio-historische studie over jazz in het interbellum by Marieke Anaf
- Couture Norine, Brussels: The Embodiment of the Belgian Avant-Garde, 1916-1952 by Nele Bernheim.
