Horizons/Founding and Manifesto of Futurism

I like this idea of destroying all the art that has come before as described in the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism. In a bizarre way it allows for people to start over. It’s a very modern ideal to want to get rid of anything that reminds people of the past, especially in regards to art. If you have no reference to look upon you have total freedom to express yourself. It goes along with the Horizons essay about what Avant-Garde art is. Breaking out of the classical form and creating something new. Although I haven’t worked out a hundred percent how I feel about this considering I have an issue with how Avant-Garde art is described. Avant-Garde supposedly means you don’t fit in is irrelevant considering a whole Avant-Garde movement has been created for people to fit into. It’s a paradox of a feeling. I spent a lot of time trying to decide if Avant-Garde is actually strange or if I’m just trained to see anything modern as “strange”. Classical art is what we immediately think of is art, but at some point in time that classical art was new. So my feeling that Avant-Garde art, no matter how strange it is, will someday be considered a classical piece of art. So labeling art as anything other than art seems irrelevant.