He has remained close with such avant-garde figures as John Cage and Merce Cunningham.

An avant-garde figure who took as his point of departure the late music of Scriabin, he fled Russia along with his family after the Bolshevik Revolution, settling in Paris.

As extroverted as Johns was introverted, Rauschenberg knew most of the leading avant-garde figures of the day.

Among the important postwar avant-garde figures will be Lygia Clarke and Hélio Oiticica.

There he met several key avant-garde figures and learned more contemporary musical styles and methods.

In later years no important avant-garde figure was left unplayed, but the significance also extended to personal contacts with the outside world, which had been virtually nonexistent.

The Impressionists have been seen primarily as avant-garde figures whose challenge to the Academy and feeling for movement, air and light were allied with progress.

Like Vinea, Felix Aderca and Adrian Maniu, Călugăru was thought by some to be indebted to the early avant-garde figure Urmuz.

Focusing on the last five years of an artist who was a key avant-garde figure in the 60's, and whose recent architectural sculptures are designed to seduce and disorient, Feb. 3-May 5.

While there he was in contact with such "avant-garde" figures as John Cage, La Monte Young, and Iannis Xenakis (Gann 1995, 1).