He was a member of an elite group, an avant-garde if you will.

The artist's abstract renditions became popular with avant-garde collectors.

Eyvind Kang was born in 1971.

The avant-garde sometimes push social reforms.
Igor Stravinsky is an avant-garde musician.

She is a classically-trained pianist, and avant-garde artist and poet.

Marcel Duchamp was an Avant garde artist associated with the Dadaist movement. He dismissed what he called retinal art, meant only to be considered visually. Instead, he wanted art to engage the mind.