Conceptual Art
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.
Style: Conceptual
Color: Pink
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Pink - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Pink, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection.
This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Self Portrait #21 From Un niño en el Chicle Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#21, 2021 by Jose Sierra
From "Un niño en el Chicle" Series
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle paper
Image size: 40 in. H x 26.3 in. W
Edition of 10 + 1AP
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Additional siz...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
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Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Pink - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Pink, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection.
This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards...
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Still Life Conceptual Scene, Playful Seafood in Vivid Color, Blue, Yellow , Pink
Located in Barcelona, ES
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Singapore Stamp Collection, 15c Singapore Sterna Bird Pink - Pop art color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
From the 2018 Singapore Series, Postcards from afar.
This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. Accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authentic...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
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Stamp Collection, HK$1 - Pop Art Conceptual Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print, dry-mounted to aluminium, presented in a museum board white window mount and a choice of black or white box frame. ...
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
City 50
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura (1924 - )
Title: City 50
Year: 1969
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: AP
Size: 25 x 19 inches
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Screen
Dinosaur
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dinosaur, 2011
53 x 43 inches
Acrylic, oil, latex and image transfer on board
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2015
A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Niki Singleton draws on both popular cu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
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Io Su Poltrona Pensando Al Lui Me On An Armchair Thinking About Him
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
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Shows:
2011:
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2012:
NASCITA INDIVIDUO LIBERO - Flaviostocco gallery Castelfranco VTO
NASCITA INDIVIDUO LIBERO Villa Bolasco con Comune Castelfranco Veneto
2013:
FALLING UP- AMY-D gallery Milano
ARTE IN TRINCEA- BROLO museum Mogliano
PHOTISSIMA-Art Fair Venice
2014:
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FLAT LAYERS- AMY-D gallery Milano
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Conceptual art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual art 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 art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Reinhard Görner, Kojun, Jose Sierra, and xulong zhang. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and 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 art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $45 and tops out at $500,000, while the average work sells for $2,465.
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