In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
Japanese Contemporary Sculpture by Kojun - VHK3M2019
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Gloss finish gold leaf over ABS thermoplastic viewer / Washi diffuser with gold-tone wash and gold kindei wash Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based ...
Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 3042
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since ...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 3041
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since ...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Mujo 3043
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver ginder & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American ar...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2463
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started i...
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2351
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on aluminum leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2...
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2253
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on aluminum leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2...
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2720
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper, mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1940
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
Paper, Photographic Paper
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2256
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digtial photgraph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 199...
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1944
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on brass leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010...
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2249
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digtial photgraph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 199...
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Christo, Corridor Store Front (Monuments) - Signed Collage
By Christo
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo (American-Bulgarian, b. 1935) Corridor Store Front (from Monuments), 1968 Medium: Collage (two-part screenprint on Bristol board, with mounted transparent plastic sheet, with...
Plastic, Board, Screen
Living Large - Original Canvas - Signed
Located in New York, NY
Homages to Mr. Monopoly. Conceptual. Vintage magazines in the background to create the narrative. One of a kind. About the Artist: NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the most sough...
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Newsprint
What's Old is New - Found Objects Abstract Sculpture
By Gwen Samuels
Located in Boston, MA
What's Old is New 18.0 x 20.0 x 4.0, 2.0 lbs Mixed Media Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "What’s Old is New is part of series called: Mind Springs that all started wit...
Mixed Media
Miracle : mixed media collage
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary collage by Stacy Bergener. In Bergner's own words, she approaches her work as taking something close to chaotic and creating order from it almost like putting together ...
Canvas, Board
$3,200Sale Price|20% Off
Loo Louvre
By Dave Quick
Located in Santa Monica, CA
There are two individual lights on this classic assemblage work depicting a bathroom within a bathroom within a bathroom.
Mixed Media
Human Target 2, Mixed Media Painting by Anatol Pacanowski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Human Target 2 Anatol Pacanowski, (1945) Date: 1981 Acrylic, Airbrush and Collaged Media on Canvas, Signed and Dated right Size: 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6...
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
The Terminator - Original Lego Work of Art
Located in New York, NY
Figurative, portrait art - The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering art...
Mixed Media
Pulley System, Surrealist Mixed Media Artwork on Paper by Zizi Raymond
By Zizi Raymond
Located in Long Island City, NY
A mixed media work by Zizi Raymond from 1988. A surrealist conceptual piece representing figures in a forbidding interior. Artist: Zizi Raymond, American (1960 - 2014) Title: Untitled - Pulley...
Paper, Mixed Media
When the Stars Align - Found Objects Abstract Sculpture
By Gwen Samuels
Located in Boston, MA
When the Stars Align 10.0 x 13.0 x 5.0, 2.0 lbs Mixed Media Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "When the Stars Align is part of series called: Mind Springs that all start...
Mixed Media
$5,000
Motion Sickness, Abstract Expressionist Collage by Josep Grau Garriga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josep Grau-Garriga, Spanish (1929 - 2011) Title: Motion Sickness Year: circa 1966 Medium: Acrylic and Collage on Paper Size: 23 x 20 inches
Mixed Media
$17,000
YES NO
By Dike Blair
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dike Blair, American (1952 - ) Title: YES NO Year: 1986 Medium: Mixed Media Collage, signed and dated verso Frame Size: 98 x 17.5 inches
Acrylic, Stencil
$21,000
Shaman
By John Petrey
Located in Rye, NY
John Petrey’s Shaman is a striking mixed-media sculpture that merges mythology, ritual, and contemporary artistry. The figure wears a robe of richly patterned patchwork, assembled fr...
Ceramic, Leather, Fabric, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Untitled Mandala
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original salt on paper work by contemporary conceptual artist Jody Hanson. This piece is "Untitled Mandala", 2013, Copper sulfate and Potassium ferricyanide on paper. Artwo...
Copper
Untitled (BEEF)
By Michael Beam
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mistreated and abandoned spray-painted butcher paper (saturated), archival mounts, appropriated internet imagery heat transferred with Ink Jet T-shirt Tr...
Archival Ink, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Well Before….the Trusty S.C.O.R.E.* Crows
By Michael Beam
Located in Buffalo, NY
Peenemunde 1943—During World War II, German rocketeers developed Vergeltungswaffen or "V" weapons at the German rocket facility Peenemunde, built in 1937. The first civilian employee...
Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
My Hands Move Like Whispers Over Your Curves
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"My artistic journey is marked by a unique blend of conceptual mathematics, political engagement, and deeply personal narratives which offer a rich tapestry of human experience and e...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
Proverty, Acrylic on Canvas, Brown, Black, Red by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By Aditya Basak
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Aditya Basak - Untitled - 44 x 32 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Board ** This work will be shipped in a roll form. "Through the medium of the fantasy, Basak probes the dar...
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
$2,400
The Bubble - Circular Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting, geometric, blue
By Nick Peña
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment. In "The Buble", Peña takes a more traditional approach to representing a house in the phase of construction with bold and vivid colors and contrasts the image with cut Sintra board slowly pulsating downward from underneath the house. The light blue of the sky contrasts with a deep orange hue for the house. The work is framed with a 1 inch white border. Nick Peña...
PVC, Acrylic, Watercolor
Traveling Landscape (Sunseeker)
Located in New York, NY
This sculptural installation incorporates running water and and interior light which activates the scene of a streambed along a grassy knoll. Kathleen Vance is an environmental artist who creates projects that connect people to local aspects of nature that are overlooked or under appreciated. With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes with running streams and rivers inside vintage suitcases and trunks...
Mixed Media
"The Clandestine Traveler, " Ink, watercolor, graphite on paper
Located in New York, NY
Known for her idiosyncratic cartographic explorations of the psyche and mental states, Smith incorporates outer and inner geographical regions in this piece. The finished work is a d...
Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Homage to Hannelore Baron : mixed media collage
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary work of art by Christine Graf. A collage work of art created using rust, string and vintage book. Graf skillfully employs unconventional m...
Mixed Media, Thread, Paper
Into the whale
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#fantastic #zoology #texture #eye #paper, #color, #hole and #eye, into the #whale, from film Into The Woods, miguel villafuerte (Quito 1991) graphic designer and visual artist, lit...
Wood, Oil, Acrylic
Las tres acuáticas llevando la información
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #water JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Mi...
Magazine Paper, Wood
Caligrafía arrítmica
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
Paper, Ink, Pins
$9,500
Renew
By Chad Knight
Located in New York, NY
Digital Art. Form scooping water. See reflection. Produced on metal with white 2 inch border. About the Artist: Chad is more than just a freelance ...
Metal
Stargazing - Lego Art - Original - C-3PO From Star Wars movie.
Located in New York, NY
Stargazing - Lego Art - Original - C-3PO- From Star Wars Movie. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist...
Mixed Media
Elizabeth - 3D 6/10
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the famed Elizabeth Taylor. About the Artists: Animated through an assemblage of analog, digital, and lenticular photographic technologies, these selections from Reisi...
Lenticular
Mixed Media Painting Titled: Wingnut
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
acrylic, duct tape, metal, steel on wood acrylic on board Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a color consultant for his family's Design and Painting company that took on constant projects of custom painted interiors and decorating. This work of 20 yrs lead him to his fascination with textiles and paint, along with custom furniture. After creating and selling dozens of unique pieces of furniture, here began his transition from wall, to wood on furniture, to canvas. Painting on canvas was the culmination of his creative outlet. William feels that his lack of formal training in Fine Art has afforded him a freedom to paint what he envisions and feels, rather than conform to specific style or genre that he feels is limiting Inspired by hard edge abstraction and color field art such as Kenneth Noland, Joseph Albers, Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Imi knobel.William is showing his work locally and nationally and being collected in Palm Beach Island, Washington and New York. Gallery Representation DTR Modern Galleries 440 S. County, Palm Beach FL 33480 DTR Modern Galleries Boston NoSo Fine Art, 3716 S. Dixie Hwy West Palm...
Metal, Steel
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
Metal
$30,400Sale Price|20% Off
Best Friends - Lego Art - Original
Located in New York, NY
Dog and bird together. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pieces,...
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
Mixed Media
$1,023
Nets
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Mixed Media
Madame X (original lego art with frame)
Located in New York, NY
Madame X (original lego art with frame). Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousand...
Mixed Media
$55,250
Copyright
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over 25 years, they made a significant contribution to po...
Mixed Media
Illumination, 2018 LED Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
JORGE WELLESELEY From the series: Subterfuges, ”Illumination”, 2018 Aluminum, LED, plexiglass, PLA, concrete 15.5 x 23.5 x 12 in Ed: 2/3 + 1AP Jorge Wellesley (Havana, 1979) Cuban...
Concrete, Metal
$12,000
Tupac Shakur
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the late great musician Tupac Shakur. Images. Lyrics from his songs. Not framed. Acrylic paint on sheet music wheat pasted to wood panel. ...
Wood, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2826
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver gindei, mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American ar...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2825
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in fabric scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. ...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2247
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digtial photgraph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 199...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2824
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since ...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 3048
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since ...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 3044
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver ginder & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American ar...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 3040
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since ...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2826
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver gindei, mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American art...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2825
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper, mounted in fabric scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. K...
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2824
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper, mounted in Japanese silk scroll Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1...
Paper, Mixed Media