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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
Kremlin (Rusia)
Kremlin (Rusia)

Kremlin (Rusia)

By Donis Dayán

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Multidisciplinary artist. Twenty years of artistic experience in the Fine Arts. Eight years of practice as a University professor of Fine Arts. Broad knowledge of design software: Ad...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Exotic faces
Exotic faces

Exotic faces

By paola vignola

Located in Barcelona, CT

The artwork features a striking composition of abstract faces, each rendered with bold, flat colors and outlined in sharp, decisive lines. Dominating the canvas are faces that appear...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Xólotl en la caverna
Xólotl en la caverna

Xólotl en la caverna

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

Tea time with buttery cookies
Tea time with buttery cookies

Tea time with buttery cookies

By paola vignola

Located in Barcelona, CT

This artwork features a vibrant diptych contrasting two panels. The left panel showcases two stylized roosters in orange and cream, set against a vivid pink backdrop. Their swirling,...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Singularity
Singularity

Singularity

Located in Edinburgh, 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

Elia Panori, "Mirrors", original painting, 60x60 cm
Elia Panori, "Mirrors", original painting, 60x60 cm

Elia Panori, "Mirrors", original painting, 60x60 cm

Located in Milano, MI

In “Mirrors”, Elia Panori creates a suspended and quiet composition, where organic forms float across a neutral, textured surface. Oval shapes, reminiscent of eggs or polished stones...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board

Symphony of Color
Symphony of Color

Symphony of Color

By paola vignola

Located in Barcelona, CT

This striking abstract artwork features bold vertical streaks of color, commanding attention with its textural richness and energetic composition. Dominating the canvas are layered b...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood

Lips among bamboo
Lips among bamboo

Lips among bamboo

By paola vignola

Located in Barcelona, CT

The artwork showcases a striking composition featuring vertical stripes in earthy tones of green, brown, and beige, which create a harmonizing background. The distinct feature is the...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"Expectations" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm
"Expectations" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm

"Expectations" 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

"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

Untitled

Untitled

By Juan Casellas

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil

Translucent

Translucent

Located in New York, NY

Mysterious woman. Oil on canvas. Fab wallpaper background. About the artist: “There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern feeling of reflection, observation and cultural critique. Somewhere between the Cohen Brothers...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm

A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

A walk in the village Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

"Ephemeral" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm
"Ephemeral" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm

"Ephemeral" 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

"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

"Dismay" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm
"Dismay" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm

"Dismay" 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

A provincial delight. Oil on canvas, 41 х 51 cm
A provincial delight. Oil on canvas, 41 х 51 cm

A provincial delight. Oil on canvas, 41 х 51 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

A provincial delight. Oil on canvas, 41х51 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, gr...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm

A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

A walk in the village Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm
Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm

Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

Still life Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Kerrera #2 by Jon Rowland, Landscape painting, abstract painting, original art
Kerrera #2 by Jon Rowland, Landscape painting, abstract painting, original art

Kerrera #2 by Jon Rowland, Landscape painting, abstract painting, original art

Located in Deddington, GB

Kerrera # 2 by Jon Rowland 2018 original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic on board Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:1.5cm ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Love Letters to Cornwall I by Mary Scott, Landscape, Love, Cornwall
Love Letters to Cornwall I by Mary Scott, Landscape, Love, Cornwall

Love Letters to Cornwall I by Mary Scott, Landscape, Love, Cornwall

By Mary Scott

Located in Deddington, GB

Love Letters to Cornwall (I) by Mary Scott [2021] original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic and oil on wood panel Image size: H:40 cm x W:40 cm Complete Size of Unframed Wor...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil, Acrylic

Far Rockaway Seascape, Conceptual Oil Painting by Vladimir German
Far Rockaway Seascape, Conceptual Oil Painting by Vladimir German

Far Rockaway Seascape, Conceptual Oil Painting by Vladimir German

By Vladimir German

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Vladimir German, Russian/American (1940 - ) Title: Far Rockaway Seascape Year: 1988 - 89 Medium: Oil on Paper mounted on Board, signed verso Size: 18.5 in. x 26.25 in. (46.99...

Category

1980s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil

Memories VI
Memories VI

Memories VI

By Liana Vassalou

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - ) Title: Memories VI Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 56 in. x 48 in. (142.24 cm x 121.92 cm) Frame Size: 56.5 x 48.5 inches

Category

1970s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

It Happened II
It Happened II

It Happened II

By Liana Vassalou

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - ) Title: It Happened II Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 56 in. x 48 in. (142.24 cm x 121.92 cm) Frame S...

Category

1970s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Memories VII
Memories VII

Memories VII

By Liana Vassalou

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - ) Title: Memories VII Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 56 in. x 48 in. (142.24 cm x 121.92 cm) Frame Size: 56.5 x 48.5 inches

Category

1970s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro
Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro

Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro

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

Amber Lens
Amber Lens

Amber Lens

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...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Metal, Enamel

Untitled (BEEF)
Untitled (BEEF)

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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Archival Ink, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Turkish Medal

Turkish Medal

By Michael Beam

Located in Buffalo, NY

Beam recognizes that a successful work of art “must develop its own personality…It must empower, engage or provoke the public’s attention.” One exhibition in particular, titled Owavino(1997-1998) [meaning last minute] held in Illinois—perhaps the pinnacle of media mastery—garnered Beam numerous reviews, attacks and responses, even after the exhibiton had closed, for his work Turkish Medal (1996-1997-2013). The painting combines a comparatively altered version of one of Pulitzer-Prize winning illustrator Bill Mauldin...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Latex, Latex, Masonite, Wood

Lemnia II
Lemnia II

Juan Álvarez CebriánLemnia II

$2,507Sale 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

Luna 1
Luna 1

Luna 1

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

Linen, Oil

Sandwich Tamayo
Sandwich Tamayo

Sandwich Tamayo

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

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

Milagro 12
Milagro 12

Milagro 12

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

DYRE TRAINSPOTTING

DYRE TRAINSPOTTING

By V.P. aka VIC 161 DEDAJ

Located in New York, NY

Spray enamels, oils, acrylics, authentic spray paint cans, mounted resin molded brick with wood frame created by the artist. A confluence of inspirations from the artist's graffiti artistry. About the Artist Born in Belgium and artistically inclined at an early age, V.P. was executing well-defined pencil sketched portraits of anyone who would sit for him by age 4. The family’s emigration to the United States in 1967 landed the 8 year old in the Fordham section of the Bronx at the height of the psychedelic era and POP ART movement.  The Fordham Road shopping district offered the young budding artist a fount of inspiration in the form of vibrant Rock & Roll, “black-light” posters in the windows of “head-shops” and the elaborately colored wardrobes of the hippies crowding the boulevard. The pivotal shift in V.P.’s artistic expression was fueled in 1968 by the sight of a Peter Max designed billboard.  Armed with magic markers and acrylic paints, V.P. recreated the vibrant designs from Max’s billboard, the music posters in store windows and the paisley patterns of the shirts the “flower children” favored, as well as the names and slogans painted on the walls of the neighborhood.  The early seventies brought with it a wondrous sight passing overhead on the sides of the elevated trains. NYC Subway Graffiti had arrived.  Looking up and seeing the esoteric names intricately rendered in multi colored swirls and strategically placed on the sides of the trains completely enthralled V.P.’s creative and adventurous spirit. Compelled to be a part of this fascinating movement he watched and rode the subways, deciphering the names and studying the “styles” on the steel rolling art gallery. Using his artistic influences and skills with markers, V.P. created his first moniker “SONIC-ACE” and obsessively drew it in colorful flowing letters to develop his own style.   At age 13 he set out to traverse the city, facing dangers and overcoming obstacles to enter an unknown and secretive world in order to join those who inspired him.  By 1974, he would change his moniker to “VICTOR-161” and paint hundreds of train cars and soon be admitted into the world famous graffiti clique “WILD STYLE” - an honor bestowed due to peer recognized artistic and stylistic abilities.  (WILDSTYLE was created/coined by the iconic TRACY-168)  V.P. was a well known and respected “writer” who “pieced” with revered writers of the day, under the aforementioned monikers including aka’s T-BOLT-123, SULFA-ONE, FANTA-ONE, BOND & ACES.  V.P. retired from painting NYC subway trains in 1977 with occasional excursions in 1986,1987,1988,1999 & 1992.  He continuously expanded his artistic pallet, studying Art History & Graphic Design in college while seeking knowledge from masters in chosen fields of art.  His works have shown in independent galleries nationally and are sought after by international collectors, with numerous private commissions. He has been featured in several best selling books and magazines focusing on graffiti art as well as his status of having been a part of the 1970’s “Golden Era” of NYC Subway Graffiti. V.P. works with a variety of mediums including aerosol paints, oils, water color & acrylic paints, often combining mediums as well as blending POP, graffiti and abstract styles of painting onto wood, canvas and metal.  His professional artistic background includes commercial art and design, logo design, silk screening, printmaking, large commissioned public murals, sign painting, pin striping and airbrushing cars, sculpting, metal fabrication, woodcarving and tattooing. Exhibitions:  Fashion Moda (BXNY) Group Show 1980/Fun Gallery (NYC) group show 1981, Beef Gallery, (LA) Group Show 1981, Gallery International (NYC) Group Show 1985, Susan Greco Gallery (NY) Group Show 1990, Shady Side...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Tony Hernandez

Located in Atlanta, GA

tony hernandez was born in Atlanta in 1964 and has been painting professionally since 1988. while he is a southern artist, his works are far from the re...

Category

20th Century Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Casa Blanca (USA)
Casa Blanca (USA)

Casa Blanca (USA)

By Donis Dayán

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Multidisciplinary artist. Twenty years of artistic experience in the Fine Arts. Eight years of practice as a University professor of Fine Arts. Broad knowledge of design software: Ad...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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.