During recent years, Germany had become a major center of avant-garde art.
However the time was not right for avant-garde art in Norway.
Even the idea of an avant-garde art has a distinctive form in Japan.
Avant-garde art was the province almost of a secret society.
A special emphasis has been given to the collection of Russian avant-garde art.
There students could learn not only the traditional artistic techniques, but also free avant-garde art of the world.
According to this view, the avant-garde arts lobby ought to be just another one of these groups.
At an early point he became interested in avant-garde art and experimentalism.
Works that he produced with these artists had a profound impact on avant-garde art beyond the world of dance.
He also bought a major Soviet-era collection of avant-garde art.