One neighborhood of New York County is contiguous with the mainland. Marble Hill at one time was part of Manhattan Island, but the Harlem River Ship Canal, dug in 1895 to improve navigation on the Harlem River, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan as an island between the Bronx and the remainder of Manhattan.
For other uses, see Avant-garde (disambiguation). The Love of Zero, a 1927 film by Robert Florey. The avant-garde (from French, advance guard or vanguard, literally fore-guard) are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society.
Vincent van Gogh. Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter, commonly associated with the Post-Impressionist period. As one of the most prolific and experimental artists of his time, van Gogh was a spontaneous painter and a master of color and perspective. Troubled by personal demons all his life, many historians speculate that van Gogh suffered from a Bipolar disorder.