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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dusk Pool by Karen Lynn, Hockney Inspired, Architectural, Contemporary
By Karen Lynn
Located in Deddington, GB
Dusk Pool [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
oil on canvas
Image size: H:100 cm x W:100 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:100 cm x W:100 cm x D:4cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
This is a painting from my architectural series of works. I wanted to paint a twilight scene using deep rich colours against a beautiful lit up pool. A window depicting another world inside a modernist house reflecting interiors with warm and inviting colours. I am inspired by modern architecture as I love painting the straight lines against the softness of nature with its trees and plants and cactii. This painting is painted in oils on a thick painted edged canvas and is ready to hang.
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Paintings
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Mixed Media, Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings
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Wax Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil Crayon
untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered witha work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1960s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Conceptual Paintings
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Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Lithograph, Mixed Media
Singularity
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Singularity. Natalia Pustovit. Fhenomenal artwork concept
Singularity is the point at which a mathematical function tends to infinity.
A woman is that point, which is the conduc...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
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1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Niño a caballo
Located in Barcelona, ES
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1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Engraving
Eva al desnudo
Located in Barcelona, ES
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1970s Conceptual Paintings
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Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Engraving
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1980s Conceptual Paintings
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Engraving
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Pose
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Etching
Humanoids
Located in Barcelona, ES
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Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Ink
Dovelike
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Dovelike 2018
Pencil signed and title.
Joanna Salska was born in Poland and received her MFA from Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. She is a painter and interd...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1960s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
They grey square
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Aguas Serenas
Located in Barcelona, ES
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1970s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
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20th Century Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Fresco, Large painting by Peter Saari
By Peter Saari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Saari is an American artist who's work aims to re-invent antiquity through recreating ancient wall paintings and decoration. Provenance: Lamanga Gal...
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Canvas, Oil
Self-gratifying confession
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work certificate
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2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
The last spectator
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work certificate
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2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
The Kiss
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work certificate
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2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
La taverna degli amore perduti ('The tavern of lost loves')
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Indignado
Located in Santa Fe, NM
These gold-leaf compositions by Cuban artist José Ángel Vincench are artworks and bold political statements. The artist is known for his lustrous paintings of minimalist abstractions...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
La mujer que ha sido una flor ('A Woman who has been a flower')
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
A kind invitation
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work certificate
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2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media
Anniversario di matrimonio
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work certificate
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2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Las amigas
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work certificate
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2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
L'ultimo funerale - Il mio ('The last funeral - Mine.')
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Conceptual paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Peter Soriano, Penelope Ellis, Eduardo Costa, and Mattia Novello. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual paintings, so small editions measuring 6.75 inches across are also available. Prices for paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $333 and tops out at $115,000, while the average work sells for $3,713.
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