avant-garde

English Thesaurus

1. any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) (noun.group)

hypernym	:	art movement, artistic movement,
definition	:	a group of artists who agree on general principles (noun.group)

2. radically new or original (adj.all)

similar	:	original,
definition	:	being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of (adj.all)