a protester throwing a stone during May '68 uprising in Paris

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Avant-garde art's plasticity is the plasticity of reality itself

The avant-garde movements of the early 20th century present a world where art defies convention and philosophy reshapes perception. This blog examines how Cubism, Surrealism, and other revolutionary styles engaged with ideas such as plasticity, speculation, and the absolute. Forms bend, dissolve, and reconstruct, reflecting philosophical explorations of reality’s malleable nature. The speculative impulse behind this engagement with reality drove artists to envision worlds beyond the tangible, and the quest for the absolute that tethered creative chaos to transcendental ideals. A journey through art as thought — provocative, fluid, and infinitely transformative.