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
Precarious
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
Conceptual piece. Commentary on life. Humorous but impactful. Acrylic on canvas.
About the artist:
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen Hall moved to New York in 1978 and began...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Whip - Social Realism
Located in Miami, FL
Work is marked on reverse "Rhythm" and "The Whip." on verso - We are not sure the exact meaning of this work.
Gropper was a social realist and a radical of his time and a commenta...
Category
1960s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Milagro 12
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
Russian authorities. 2002, oil on canvas, acrylic, collage, 60x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Russian authorities. 2002, oil on canvas, acrylic, collage, 60x40 cm
Igor Leontiev (1957) - one of the leading independent painters in Latvia
Born in Riga, Latvia.
Studied in the A...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Naturaleza muerta con botella
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
Sing Me A Song
Located in New York, NY
Image of woman empowered. Bright colors.
About the Artist:
Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved herself exce...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Organism II, Minimalist Oil Painting by Liana Vassalou
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - )
Title: Organism II
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
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
Beatles on Times Square
Located in New York, NY
Homage to Beatles Abbey Road in Times Square. Oil on canvas. Feels like you are in the heart of NYC. Took over 300 hours to paint.
About The Artist:
D’Avino cultivated his ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Pretty Though
By Alex Gingrow
Located in New York, NY
graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist
The text in this painting reads: still pretty though, painted in stark capital letters faded into the backgroun...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Graphite
Absence I, Minimalist Contemporary Oil Painting by Liana Vassalou
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - )
Title: Absence I
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
Memories VI
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
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
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
Weather Project, Day of the Sandstorm
Located in Natchez, MS
This stunning work by Louise Feneley is somehow both abstract and figurative. Is it a pearl or a glowing ball of light? It's hard to tell. The light, co...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Conceptual Encaustic Painting, "En Vacances"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original conceptual encaustic wax painting by San Diego artist, Tiffany Bociek. It's dimensions are 12"x12"x1.5". It is unframed...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Thread, Encaustic, Oil, Rice Paper
Sound in Grey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Sound in Grey" Graffiti & Line series
2017
acrylic on canvas
60X44"
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse side.
Robert Petrick's paintings create a link between the street cul...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Glory
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Glory, 2015
12” X 9"
Oil on paper
Framed
A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Niki Singleton draws on both popular culture and mythology in order to create works that...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Hide
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hide, 2015
12” X 9”
Oil on found wine box
$1400 unframed
A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Niki Singleton draws on both popular culture and mythology in order to cr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
LOL (laugh out loud)
Located in Buffalo, NY
LOL (laugh out loud) 2014 4x6" framed. 8x10"
SUBTEXT
This series of small paintings are a mash-up of Renaissance Choir book borders with their ornate grotesques and drolleries combi...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pintura de cuatro huevos duros en un plato
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
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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1960s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Kremlin (Rusia)
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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
The Patriot
Located in New York, NY
Horse portrait. Americana colors. Acrylics, mixed media on canvas, 60" x 48"x 2". Gallery wrapped, wired and ready to hang. In “The Patriot”, the harnessed strength of the wor...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Untitled
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
Untitled
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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Car and Truck Crashing with Random Cosmic Laser Beam
By Joe Currie
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Canvas. Energy. Vibrant colors. Impactful portrayal of a crash with science fiction infusion.
About the Artist:
"Growing up in England during the 80s, the influence and love of American sub cultures through TV, and being surrounded by large non-spaces of US air bases around East Anglia, gave me a slightly odd and romantic view of America.
I finished the Masters Degree bronze-casting course at the Royal College of Art in 1999 and have pursued my passion for Art ever since. I have built up a body of work that follows the theme of a journey into abstraction, inspired by Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Fiona Banner, Cornelia Parker...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Casa Blanca (USA)
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
NY Symphony
Located in New York, NY
Homage to Times Square. Oil on canvas. Feels like you are in the heart of NYC. Took over 300 hours to paint. Not framed. Sides painted black. Signed on the back.
About Th...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jimi Hendrix
Located in New York, NY
Jimi Hendrix. Mixed Media.
About the Artist:
Le Closier is a Belgian painter living in New York. After moving to Paris in the early 2000's, mixing P...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Engraving
Las flores del mal
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
He refers to the history of art, particularly to pop culture and the social circumstances of its local environment as well as its universal confrontation.
Humor and irony with a crit...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Color
Ideas
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Thoughts in My Head #41 Standing Next to You" conceptual text painting
By Lisa Levy
Located in New York, NY
This Conceptual Text based painting features the words "When you look here imagine me standing next to you" in white over a royal blue background ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Audrey
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn. Portrait. Abstract Feel. Oil on Linen. Sides painted black.
About the Artist:
Karl has been a fine artist his entire life and is well known for his portraits, seascapes and landscapes. Karl’s numerous accomplishments are evident; You can find his work hanging in over 300 public and private collections, including Interpublic Companies, Merrill Lynch, PepsiCo and the Heisman Trophy...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Conceptual Text Based Painting "Paved with Gold" (tax the poor, feed the rich)
By David Kramer
Located in New York, NY
38"x28" signed by the artist, David Kramer. (oil, acrylic, enamel, pencil on gessoed paper) In this conceptual work on paper, the title: "Paved with Gold" counters the text which ov...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Pencil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"NeoRealism (on the Subway)" conceptual, text based work on paper
By David Kramer
Located in New York, NY
38"x25" signed by the artist, David Kramer. (oil, enamel, acrylic, pencil on gessoed paper) In this conceptual work on paper, the text "Keeping it Real...Whatever That Means" is wr...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Engraving
Waiting from the Cold Country
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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Satirical Text Based Conceptual Painting: "Log Entries..."
By David Kramer
Located in New York, NY
38"x27" signed by the artist, David Kramer. (acrylic, pencil on gessoed paper) In this conceptual work on paper, the text "Handmade Memes... Old World Flavor." is hand drawn to loo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Pencil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Humanoids
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Not If But When
By Alex Gingrow
Located in New York, NY
graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist
The text in this painting reads like a mantra: Not If But When, in grades of red, pink and blue on a washed gre...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Graphite
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