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Conceptual Paintings

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

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.

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Style: Conceptual
Fragments of Light - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Fragments of Light - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

She is my best
She is my best

She is my best

Located in Zofingen, AG

The painting “My Best” - where chickens appear as women - symbolizes the relationship between a man and a woman. A man leading a chicken on a leash symbolizes his attitude towards hi...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Random Thought
Random Thought

John AliRandom Thought, 2023

$2,480Sale Price|20% Off

Random Thought

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

"Random Thought," a captivating creation by artist John Ali, invites viewers into the enigmatic realm of introspection. The artwork features a young man, his head covered with nylon, adorned by an intricate African bead necklace...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Under construction", Original painting with concrete on paper, Art Povera
"Under construction", Original painting with concrete on paper, Art Povera

"Under construction", Original painting with concrete on paper, Art Povera

Located in Carballo, ES

This new series of works by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña) shows us a completely unique dynamic. In these works he uses the concrete of the construction as picto...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Concrete

Light, Series Drawing From Israel - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper
Light, Series Drawing From Israel - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper

Light, Series Drawing From Israel - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper

By Krzysztof Gliszczyński

Located in Salzburg, AT

The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. Krzysztof Gliszczyński born in Miastko in 1962. Graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1987 in the studio of Prof. Kazimierz Ostrowski. Between 1995 and 2002 founder and co-manager of Koło Gallery in Gdańsk. lnitiator of the Kazimierz Ostrowski Award, con-ferred by the Union of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP), Gdańsk Chapter. Dean of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2008-2012. Vice Rector for Development and Cooperation of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2012-2016. Obtained a professorship in 2011. Currently head of the Third Painting Studio of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts. He has taken part in a few dozen exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He has received countless prizes and awards for his artistic work. He is active in the field of painting, drawing, objects, and video. Artist Statement In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Everyone has their own paradise
Everyone has their own paradise

Everyone has their own paradise

Located in Zofingen, AG

The subtext of the work points to two types of personal involvement: - blindly following mass ideas, which often lead to undesirable consequences; - independent choice and the abilit...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Decorate!
Decorate!

Decorate!

Located in Zofingen, AG

The painting “Decorate!” is a reflection on the power of female presence in the world and a call to action. Against the backdrop of a light gray sky with light clouds, the earth stre...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Farm
The Farm

The Farm

By Greg Decker

Located in Atlanta, GA

Greg's witty and charming oil painting on aluminium comes framed in a floater frame which adds 1.75 inches all the way around. "Greg Decker is a visionary painter. His work epitomise...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Metal

Seeking Perfection 3 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern
Seeking Perfection 3 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern

Seeking Perfection 3 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Mic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Joyful Moment 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Children
Joyful Moment 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Children

Joyful Moment 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Children

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Oluwatobiloba A...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Coffee, Watercolor

Best Friend - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Love, Cat
Best Friend - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Love, Cat

Best Friend - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Love, Cat

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

MERCANTILISM
MERCANTILISM

MERCANTILISM

Located in Zofingen, AG

This painting depicts abundance in two dimensions: material abundance, symbolized by golden eggs, and spiritual abundance, because our greatest wealth is our children, the continuati...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Peace from Within 3 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern
Peace from Within 3 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern

Peace from Within 3 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Mic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Dialogue
Dialogue

John AliDialogue, 2023

$2,480Sale Price|20% Off

Dialogue

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

"Dialogue," a thought-provoking creation by artist John Ali, beckons viewers into a realm of symbolism and introspection. The artwork features a young man with his head covered in ny...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Window. Oil on canvas, 80x120 cm
Window. Oil on canvas, 80x120 cm

Window. Oil on canvas, 80x120 cm

By Elga Grinvalde

Located in Riga, LV

Window. Oil on canvas, 80x120 cm Elga Grinvalde ”ellgrii” Born in Valka (Latvia) 1966 Education: 1982-1986 Riga Applied Art College,Latvia department of glasswork desig. 1994-1998...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Illusion
Illusion

Illusion

Located in Zofingen, AG

Where does reality end and illusion begin? This work explores the themes of manipulation, simulation, and the fragility of trust. An old television set — a symbol of a past era when...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Harvest
Harvest

Harvest

Located in Zofingen, AG

This painting depicts a wide sky filled with clouds above a brown field, where orange chickens are scattered across the land, improvising as if pecking at the soil. The repetitive mo...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Steadfast Gaze 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl
Steadfast Gaze 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl

Steadfast Gaze 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Souvenirs of Beauty 1 - 21st Century Mixed Media with Oil and Ankara Fabrics
Souvenirs of Beauty 1 - 21st Century Mixed Media with Oil and Ankara Fabrics

Souvenirs of Beauty 1 - 21st Century Mixed Media with Oil and Ankara Fabrics

By Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

"Souvenirs of Beauty" is a captivating portrayal of a woman steeped in tradition and grace, adorned in a rich green headwrap and matching attire that exudes elegance. Her deep brown ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Remember, Science Art Collection by Anastasia Vasilyeva
Remember, Science Art Collection by Anastasia Vasilyeva

Remember, Science Art Collection by Anastasia Vasilyeva

By Anastasia Vasilyeva

Located in Zofingen, AG

This painting was exhibited at the art exhibition in Innsbruck (Contemporary Art Fair 2019), as well as in Marbella (Excellence Art gallery), Florence (Art Expertise), and Madrid (APPA art gallery). "Remember?" is a conceptual science painting...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Cotton Canvas

Mandorla - Large Format Charcoal On Paper, Black White Drawing
Mandorla - Large Format Charcoal On Paper, Black White Drawing

Mandorla - Large Format Charcoal On Paper, Black White Drawing

By Krzysztof Gliszczyński

Located in Salzburg, AT

Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube Artist Statement In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Garment of Hope
Garment of Hope

John AliGarment of Hope, 2022

$2,480Sale Price|20% Off

Garment of Hope

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

"Garment of Hope," a poignant masterpiece crafted by the skilled hands of artist John Ali, invites viewers into a world where innocence and resilience converge. This evocative artwor...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

There are only chickens around
There are only chickens around

There are only chickens around

Located in Zofingen, AG

This painting is an allegory for the modern life of a woman in the context of urbanization and mass culture, or an expression of the contrast between the natural and the artificial, ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Garment of Hope 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Girl
Garment of Hope 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Girl

Garment of Hope 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Girl

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

"Garment of Hope," a poignant masterpiece crafted by the skilled hands of artist John Ali, invites viewers into a world where innocence and resilience converge. This evocative artwor...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Beyond Reproach - 21st Century, Expressionist, Figurative Portrait, Oil, Women
Beyond Reproach - 21st Century, Expressionist, Figurative Portrait, Oil, Women

Beyond Reproach - 21st Century, Expressionist, Figurative Portrait, Oil, Women

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Sayeed Momoh is...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Joyful Moment 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Children
Joyful Moment 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Children

Joyful Moment 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Children

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Oluwatobiloba A...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Coffee

Steadfast Gaze 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl
Steadfast Gaze 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl

Steadfast Gaze 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pearl of Heritage - 21st Century Mixed Media with Oil and African Women Fabrics
Pearl of Heritage - 21st Century Mixed Media with Oil and African Women Fabrics

Pearl of Heritage - 21st Century Mixed Media with Oil and African Women Fabrics

By Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Bakare Babatund...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Drawing 14, Series Drawing - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper Panting
Drawing 14, Series Drawing - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper Panting

Drawing 14, Series Drawing - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper Panting

By Krzysztof Gliszczyński

Located in Salzburg, AT

The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. Krzysztof Gliszczyński born in Miastko in 1962. Graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1987 in the studio of Prof. Kazimierz Ostrowski. Between 1995 and 2002 founder and co-manager of Koło Gallery in Gdańsk. lnitiator of the Kazimierz Ostrowski Award, con-ferred by the Union of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP), Gdańsk Chapter. Dean of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2008-2012. Vice Rector for Development and Cooperation of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2012-2016. Obtained a professorship in 2011. Currently head of the Third Painting Studio of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts. He has taken part in a few dozen exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He has received countless prizes and awards for his artistic work. He is active in the field of painting, drawing, objects, and video. Artist Statement In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Solitude Mood -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Artist, Modern
Solitude Mood -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Artist, Modern

Solitude Mood -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Artist, Modern

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Mic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Flower Goddess - Figurative Paintings - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman
Flower Goddess - Figurative Paintings - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman

Flower Goddess - Figurative Paintings - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman

Located in Carmel, CA

Primal woman of the jungle with a headdress of vibrant tropical plants Flower Goddess - Figurative Paintings - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman This masterpiece is exhibited in th...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Untitled Abstract Village with Horses, Color Lithograph, 20th Century"

"Untitled Abstract Village with Horses, Color Lithograph, 20th Century"

Located in Belgrade, MT

This piece is from my private collection of 20th Century -21st Century artists, many of which are from the School of Paris era. Pelayo produced this lithograph in colors. The Latin American spirit...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paint, Lithograph

Seeking Perfection 2 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern
Seeking Perfection 2 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern

Seeking Perfection 2 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Mic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Mixed Media

Help From Above - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman, Modern
Help From Above - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman, Modern

Help From Above - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman, Modern

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Mic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Archival Ink

Andra Samelson, Pemarom, 2013-2022, 1300 + cds, Edition of 5, Abstract Sculpture
Andra Samelson, Pemarom, 2013-2022, 1300 + cds, Edition of 5, Abstract Sculpture

Andra Samelson, Pemarom, 2013-2022, 1300 + cds, Edition of 5, Abstract Sculpture

By Andra Samelson

Located in Darien, CT

The word in Tibetan for lotus is “Pema.” In Buddhism the lotus is a symbol of purity. The lotus is planted and rooted in the mud, but grows up through the water and into the vast sky...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Mirror, Plastic, Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Other Medium

Unbridled Joy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Unbridled Joy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Onileke Ara (Beaded in Style) 2 -21st Century Contemporary, African Woman, Beads
Onileke Ara (Beaded in Style) 2 -21st Century Contemporary, African Woman, Beads

Onileke Ara (Beaded in Style) 2 -21st Century Contemporary, African Woman, Beads

By Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Regal and radiant! 'Onileke Ara (Beaded in Style)' celebrates the beauty and elegance of African culture Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Bakare Babatunde, born in Ogun State, Nigeria, is a dynamic artist whose journey in the world of art has been shaped by a rich cultural background. Completing his higher education in Lagos State, Nigeria, Bakare earned a Higher National Diploma in Library and Information Science, laying the foundation for a unique artistic perspective. Bakare's artistic evolution began with pencil drawing, a modest start that eventually led him to experiment with various mediums. Among these, oil color, acrylic, and Ankara fabrics on canvas emerged as his favored mediums, allowing him to explore the depth of his creative vision. Primarily focusing on figurative painting and portraiture, Bakare's work delves into the intricacies of human expression and identity. His art becomes a canvas for the narratives of emotions and cultural appreciation. Bakare's artistic journey has been punctuated by notable exhibitions, showcasing his talent on both national and international platforms: Icreate Skill Festival Abuja (2017). Ijakadi Art Exhibition, Kwara State (2020). Kwara State Youth Fair 2.0 Art Exhibition Category (2022). 'Unconditional Love Is Not Beyond Us' An Online Group Exhibition by Constance and Sons...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Solace
Solace

John AliSolace, 2022

$2,280Sale Price|20% Off

Solace

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

In the captivating piece titled "Solace," artist John Ali unveils a profound exploration of introspection through the gaze of a young woman lost in thought. The poignant portrayal ca...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Set of 2 paintings / Natural pigment on canvas, pine wood, conceptual
Set of 2 paintings / Natural pigment on canvas, pine wood, conceptual

Set of 2 paintings / Natural pigment on canvas, pine wood, conceptual

Located in Carballo, ES

This series by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña, Spain) titled "Land paintings (or what painting is not)", is a series of paintings that the artist had buried in th...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

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Organic Material, Varnish, Canvas, Wood

Radiance of Joy 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, African, Women, Happily Smiling
Radiance of Joy 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, African, Women, Happily Smiling

Radiance of Joy 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, African, Women, Happily Smiling

By Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authen...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

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Fabric, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Tractor Replaces the Horse
Tractor Replaces the Horse

Tractor Replaces the Horse

By Craig Sheperd

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original enamel on metal painting by emerging contemporary conceptual artist Craig Sheperd (b. 1984) Craig Sheperd’s paintings, most of which are enamel on metal, were created o...

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2010s Conceptual Paintings

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Metal, Enamel

Prisoner's Dilemma -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Oil, Women
Prisoner's Dilemma -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Oil, Women

Prisoner's Dilemma -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Oil, Women

By BEMI

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Centered on mental health and its “invisibility”. This painting explores the mental and emotional conflict caused by dissociation between Imposed labels and self-identity. In the worthy pursuit of freedom from the endless constructs of this world, we hope to not become imprisoned by our minds. About Artist Gbemi Smart...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Far From Home 2
Far From Home 2

Michael AdetulaFar From Home 2, 2023

$1,160Sale Price|20% Off

Far From Home 2

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. It i...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Bob Seng, Exit 397, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

Bob Seng, Exit 397, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

By Bob Seng

Located in Darien, CT

Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture. In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...

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Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

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Plastic

Head Tie 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Women, African
Head Tie 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Women, African

Head Tie 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Women, African

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Oluwatobiloba A...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Vibrant Heritage - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Vibrant Heritage - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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