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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
Control your light
Control your light

Control your light

By Nina Fedotova

Located in Zofingen, AG

"Control Your Own Light is about the ability to decide for yourself what deserves to shine in your life and what is better switched off. The cactus with light bulbs becomes a source...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

In rhythm
In rhythm

In rhythm

By Nina Fedotova

Located in Zofingen, AG

This minimalist surrealist painting explores rhythm and movement through color and form. On a light blue background — symbolizing space and clarity — thin vertical red stripes occupy...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Darkened Sky: Tempera Painting, Conceptual Style, 21st Century, 71x90cm, Framed

Darkened Sky: Tempera Painting, Conceptual Style, 21st Century, 71x90cm, Framed

By Lubomir Typlt

Located in BARCELONA, ES

I cannot anticipate an element that would define a new line. I have not encountered one yet. Each painter has a spectrum of ideas they stick to. I am largely a figural painter. I pai...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Paper

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

Window. Oil on canvas, 80x120 cm. Signed

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...

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Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990
"Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990

"Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990

Located in Astoria, NY

Roni Nicholson (American, XX), "Francisco G.", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1990, signed, titled, and dated verso, unframed. 51.25" H x 54" W x 1.5" D. Provenance...

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1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Textile, Linen, Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil

Descendants
Descendants

Descendants

By Nina Fedotova

Located in Zofingen, AG

“Descendants” explores the continuity of life, inheritance and the possibility of a new beginning. Against a deep blue background, an ostrich stands at the center, surrounded by egg...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Perro
Perro

Perro

By Erik Perez

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

An innate and atypical landscape artist, Eric Pérez is an intellectual who paints. He knows and loves Mexican and world history, from which he derives his contemporary context. His p...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Voodoo Altar: Feast for the Loa, Conceptual Oil on Masonite, 1960s
Voodoo Altar: Feast for the Loa, Conceptual Oil on Masonite, 1960s

Voodoo Altar: Feast for the Loa, Conceptual Oil on Masonite, 1960s

By Adam Leontus

Located in Miami, FL

Voodoo Altar: Feast for the Loa This work represents a convergence of religion, craft, and design, as well as the need for individual artistic expression. It is a visual feast as muc...

Category

1960s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth

The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth

By Stephen Hall

Located in New York, NY

Conceptual piece. Commentary on life. Humorous. Featuring astronaut and a bottle of Tide detergent. Acrylic on canvas. About the artist: Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen H...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

Located in Barcelona, CT

the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Ink

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

By Michael Adetula

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

Lemnia II
Lemnia II

Juan Álvarez CebriánLemnia II

$2,473Sale Price|30% Off

Lemnia II

By Juan Álvarez Cebrián

Located in CAMPO REAL, ES

Lemnia II is a piece that evokes the ancient majesty of the sculpture of Athena Lemnia, an iconic work created by Phidias in the 5th century B.C. that once stood on the Acropolis of ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

Game of Life Mixed Media Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, 21st Century
Game of Life Mixed Media Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, 21st Century

Game of Life Mixed Media Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, 21st Century

By Michael Adetula

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

In this game of life, we fiercely strive, Chasing dreams, hoping to survive. Each step we take, is a move on the board, Sometimes rewarded, sometimes ignored. We start with a roll of...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

1970s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Linternas
Linternas

Linternas

By Erik Perez

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

An innate and atypical landscape artist, Eric Pérez is an intellectual who paints. He knows and loves Mexican and world history, from which he derives his contemporary context. His p...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Monet Cane
Monet Cane

Monet Cane

By General Idea

Located in Toronto, Ontario

General Idea was formed in 1967 in Toronto and over the next nearly 30 years, the trio made a remarkable contribution to post-modern art. With their subversive approach and intere...

Category

1980s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Glimmer of Hope - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Glimmer of Hope - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

By John Ali

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

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 Hallein, 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

Luna 2
Luna 2

Luna 2

By Erik Perez

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

An innate and atypical landscape artist, Eric Pérez is an intellectual who paints. He knows and loves Mexican and world history, from which he derives his contemporary context. His p...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Milagro 15
Milagro 15

Milagro 15

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Tender Weight of Waiting 1 -21st Century Contemporary Figurative Portrait Modern
Tender Weight of Waiting 1 -21st Century Contemporary Figurative Portrait Modern

Tender Weight of Waiting 1 -21st Century Contemporary Figurative Portrait Modern

By Michael Adetula

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

The Tender Weight of Waiting captures a moment of calm shaped by unseen expectations. Surrounded by books centered on love, marriage, and self-preparation, the subject retreats into ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

1980s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Engraving

Weight of Return -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern, Skate
Weight of Return -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern, Skate

Weight of Return -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern, Skate

By Michael Adetula

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

This piece captures the moment where emotion becomes stronger than ego. The running figure carries two contrasting elements (a skating machine symbolizing movement, escape, and the f...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Forever Young Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century
Forever Young Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century

Forever Young Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century

By Taiwo Odejinmi

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 Authent...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

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

By Michael Adetula

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

"In the folds" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm
"In the folds" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm

"In the folds" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm

By Corrado Ferrante

Located in Milano, MI

In the compositions, the gaze is attracted by an interplay of harmonious balances between full and empty spaces, which compel the regarding to an observation dynamic approach in orde...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board

Contemporary blue painting on paper, Seascape, Abstract Seaweeds
Contemporary blue painting on paper, Seascape, Abstract Seaweeds

Contemporary blue painting on paper, Seascape, Abstract Seaweeds

By TUSET

Located in Carballo, ES

This is an original artwork unframed realized by TUSET in 2020. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm Original and unique piece 1/1. Includes ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

Crimson Contemplation - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Crimson Contemplation - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

By John Ali

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

URBAN MUSTANG
URBAN MUSTANG

URBAN MUSTANG

By Donna Bernstein

Located in New York, NY

The American mustang. Revered for his freedom, yet never truly free. Cast in a red glow of pain, his spirit is never taken, as his numbers are cut down. Created in acrylics, life-...

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2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Ascending Joy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl

Ascending Joy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl

By John Ali

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

"Verso sera" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 39x31cm
"Verso sera" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 39x31cm

"Verso sera" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 39x31cm

By Corrado Ferrante

Located in Milano, MI

In the compositions, the gaze is attracted by an interplay of harmonious balances between full and empty spaces, which compel the regarding to an observation dynamic approach in orde...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board, Paper, Wood Panel

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