As SE Wisconsin's ONLY Body Piercing only store, Avant-Garde is proud to provide only the highest in quality body piercing procedures and body jewelry.
Avant-Garde is proud to be 100% drug free. We are dedicated to the truth that a drug free business is the only way to ensure that your body piercing is performed properly and accurately. All of Avant-Garde's professional piercers are just that, professionals. No piercer at Avant-Garde has a "side job" or "performs piercings once in a while." This is what we do 365 days of each and every year. And we think that puts our experience over the top when compared to many of our competitors. Avant-Garde is proud to be a BBB (Better Business Bureau) of Wisconsin accredited business since 2004! You can look up our company at http://www.bbb.org/wisconsin/business-reviews/ear-and-body-piercing/avant-garde-in-milwaukee-wi-8002662 Avant-Garde proudly carries the following Body Jewelry INSTOCK: Industrial Strength (http://www.isbodyjewelry.com/) Anatometal (http://anatometal.com/) Body Gems (http://www.bodygems.com/) BVLA (http://bodyvision.net/) Avant-Garde is also happy to special order jewelry from: Flaming Bones (http://www.flamingbones.com/default.asp) Neometal (http://www.neometal.com/) Follow us on Twitter @AGPiercing We are now also on Angie's List. Check out our Profile there by going to http://tinyurl.com/m5zupxg Follow us on Tumblr at: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/avantgardepiercing Follow us on Pintrest at: http://www.pinterest.com/agpiercing/ Avant-Garde does not take or keep pictures of you or your piercings. While in earlier times portfolios were necessary to back up a persons claims of greatness. In today's world where you can download images from Google, a portfolio can hardly be trusted to show a persons good piercing work. Additionally, Avant-Garde 100% believes that your piercings are just that, YOURS. We may have provided the knowledge to put them their and make them healthy but ultimately they are your piercing and of your body, mind and spirit. And that means we should not have a right to share them with the world without your permission. **Of course if you want to share photos and tag us in them we won't complain. lol **
Emerging in the mid-19th century, the avant-garde received their name for their fighting spirit. Avant-garde is French for vanguard, a military term used to describe the front line of an army moving into battle. Artists were compared with these soldiers as they were often a group force, challenging long-established concepts and ideas about art and fighting an entrenched establishment. Artists such as Corby, Gauguin and Kirchner were regarded with great hostility because they pushed accepted boundaries. As these establishments denied the work public exposure, the avant-garde fought t Artists T Do you find t Kirchner's expressionism might have challenged the prevailing styles and authority of the time, but reads very differently to a contemporary eye. Anna Huig was another German artist breaking new ground in the early 20th century. She was an early creator of photo montage art, collages of pasted photographs. We see a tribal mask, a baby's torso, an eye from a fas The figure is mounted on little feet as if on display, representing treatment of women in Weimar Germany as inferior and infantile, yet put on a pedestal. The geometric background is almost a cage. Huig was a radical who blazed a trail for photo collage, but was also a pioneer for her gender. Avant-garde artists challenge and sometimes provoke us through satire. Many would argue that Picasso's work remains radical. In bottling glass on a table, the bottle is a piece of newspaper, on which stenciled letters spell Old Jar, short for Old Jamaica R Writing the subject name on the canvas rather than carefully copying its physical form was revolutionary. If newspaper can become a bottle, then what is reality? Damien Hurst was a member of the YBAs, or Young British Artists, a more recent group that embodied the avant-garde spirit. Their work The Hurst's Revolutionary Natural They appear alive and caught in movement. The work examines life's fragility and the inevitability of death and disintegration. The emotion of the work is heightened by how banal the animals are. If it were a tiger or a lion suspended at the point of death, the work would read completely differently. Rather than see it as a tragedy, let's be excited by the thought that today's avant-garde may be familiar, conventional or even clichu00e9d tomorrow.
