By the 1980s, however, avant-garde painters and sculptors had eschewed all groups and were "unattached" artists.

He became part of a group of avant-garde painters who came to prominence in the 1980's.

Having acquired a second place prize, Fuertes began to rank among emerging avant-garde painters of the time.

By 1909 he was an important American avant-garde painter.

The astonishing accomplishments and heated manifestoes issued by Russian avant-garde painters emerge as the result of much vigorous debate.

Rodchenko took his stand as an avant-garde abstract painter in the years just before the Russian Revolution of 1917.

To describe several of his artist friends who were avant-garde painters he coined the term Les Nabis.

And illustrating the inappropriateness of avant-garde painters doing the royal portrait: "One doesn't want two noses.

Their eldest son, the famous avant-garde painter Okamoto Tarō, was born the next year.

Some said that the inclusion of the Russian avant-garde painters demonstrated that the group had become an exhibition organization rather than an art movement.