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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.

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Style: Conceptual
Fresco, Large painting by Peter Saari
Fresco, Large painting by Peter Saari

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 Art

Materials

Canvas, Plaster, Oil

Head Tie 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Women, African
Head Tie 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Women, African

Head Tie 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Women, African

By Oluwatobiloba Amusan

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Oluwatobiloba A...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude

By Iké Udé

Located in Surfside, FL

BEYOND DECORUM, CLOSED AND OPEN Series, I am selling each individually. they are pairs of open and closed jackets. I will include the second photo for reference. This listing is just for the closed jacket photograph. Vintage C-print on Fuji crystal archive paper. Image size is 40 x 30", sheet measures 50 X 36 Provenance: printed by Muse X, Los Angeles. I believe these were test, proof prints. They are not signed or editioned The work of Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/post-nationalist, mainstream/marginal, individual/everyman and fashion/art. Iké Udé (born 1964) is a Nigerian-American photographer, performance artist, Ike Ude was born in 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria where he was raised. The eldest son of a wealthy family, he was exposed to photography and portraiture at an early age by dressing up for biweekly family portraits. Udé knew he was an artist by the age of six, when he developed a habit of firing a catapult at passers-by when he disapproved of their walk or the way they were dressed. As an adolescent, Udé attended the Government Secondary School, a British boarding school in Afikpo Nigeria. He was a habitué of London before he moved to New York in 1981 to study Media Communications at Hunter College, CUNY. He began his art career in the late 1980s with abstract painting and drawing. Since the 1990s, photography has been his primary medium. Udé is a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria. Udé's paintings and drawings are less well known than his photography, though critics and art historians have recognized his early work. The late Henry Geldzahler, said of Udé's paintings and works on paper: "I am touched and amazed at the ways in which he manages to blend invisibly the modernist tradition with his own Nigerian roots. There is never anything forced in the conjunction; air and light seem to be his media." Udé began his Cover Girls series in 1994. Each photograph imitates the cover of a popular fashion or lifestyle magazines, in which the artist himself is featured as the model. (ala the work of Cindy Sherman) The photographs were consciously stylized, posed, photographed and then paired with type matching that of the respected magazine. At first glance, each photograph appears to be an authentic magazine cover. Udé used the magazine cover as a stage to critique the fetishism of the upper class white model and the effects of popular culture on today's consumerist society. The series was exhibited in 1994 in the New York City gallery Exit Art. Udé's black and white series of photographs, Uli, references both high fashion and Uli body art, wall motifs from Udé's Igbo heritage. The photographs explore the anonymity of the inscribed and disembodied self. Udé's dynamic use of light, namely the chiaroscuro effect, serves as a critical compositional element in the series. Udé's Beyond Decorum series, begun in 1999, juxtaposes photographs of men's shirts and women's pumps with suggestive personal advertisements in place of the clothing tags. With its accompanying book, Beyond Decorum: Photographs by Iké Udé, the series traveled across the United States and Canada. The exhibition was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine; OBORO in Montreal, Canada; Sert Gallery; Carpenter Center at the Harvard University Art Museum; and MAK Museum in Vienna, Austria before traveling for two more years internationally. Udé's Paris Hilton: Fantasy and Simulacrum is a conversation between his alter ego, Visconti, and the celebrity Paris...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude

By Iké Udé

Located in Surfside, FL

BEYOND DECORUM, CLOSED AND OPEN Series, I am selling each individually. they are pairs of open and closed jackets. I will include the second photo for reference. This listing is just for the open jacket photograph. Vintage C-print on Fuji crystal archive paper. Image size is 40 x 30", sheet measures 50 X 35 Provenance: printed by Muse X, Los Angeles. I believe these were test, proof prints. They are not signed or editioned The work of Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/post-nationalist, mainstream/marginal, individual/everyman and fashion/art. Iké Udé (born 1964) is a Nigerian-American photographer, performance artist, Ike Ude was born in 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria where he was raised. The eldest son of a wealthy family, he was exposed to photography and portraiture at an early age by dressing up for biweekly family portraits. Udé knew he was an artist by the age of six, when he developed a habit of firing a catapult at passers-by when he disapproved of their walk or the way they were dressed. As an adolescent, Udé attended the Government Secondary School, a British boarding school in Afikpo Nigeria. He was a habitué of London before he moved to New York in 1981 to study Media Communications at Hunter College, CUNY. He began his art career in the late 1980s with abstract painting and drawing. Since the 1990s, photography has been his primary medium. Udé is a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria. Udé's paintings and drawings are less well known than his photography, though critics and art historians have recognized his early work. The late Henry Geldzahler, said of Udé's paintings and works on paper: "I am touched and amazed at the ways in which he manages to blend invisibly the modernist tradition with his own Nigerian roots. There is never anything forced in the conjunction; air and light seem to be his media." Udé began his Cover Girls series in 1994. Each photograph imitates the cover of a popular fashion or lifestyle magazines, in which the artist himself is featured as the model. (ala the work of Cindy Sherman) The photographs were consciously stylized, posed, photographed and then paired with type matching that of the respected magazine. At first glance, each photograph appears to be an authentic magazine cover. Udé used the magazine cover as a stage to critique the fetishism of the upper class white model and the effects of popular culture on today's consumerist society. The series was exhibited in 1994 in the New York City gallery Exit Art. Udé's black and white series of photographs, Uli, references both high fashion and Uli body art, wall motifs from Udé's Igbo heritage. The photographs explore the anonymity of the inscribed and disembodied self. Udé's dynamic use of light, namely the chiaroscuro effect, serves as a critical compositional element in the series. Udé's Beyond Decorum series, begun in 1999, juxtaposes photographs of men's shirts and women's pumps with suggestive personal advertisements in place of the clothing tags. With its accompanying book, Beyond Decorum: Photographs by Iké Udé, the series traveled across the United States and Canada. The exhibition was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine; OBORO in Montreal, Canada; Sert Gallery; Carpenter Center at the Harvard University Art Museum; and MAK Museum in Vienna, Austria before traveling for two more years internationally. Udé's Paris Hilton: Fantasy and Simulacrum is a conversation between his alter ego, Visconti, and the celebrity Paris...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Unique piece, Photography made without a camera, Rayogram, Water and plants
Unique piece, Photography made without a camera, Rayogram, Water and plants

Unique piece, Photography made without a camera, Rayogram, Water and plants

Located in Carballo, ES

Ana Paes (A Guarda, 1982) makes us aware of the interstices that exist between one plane and another, shows us that this apparent continuity of the image-movement is, in fact, only a...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Child bathing in the pink sea, imagination, creativity, pop art.
Child bathing in the pink sea, imagination, creativity, pop art.

Child bathing in the pink sea, imagination, creativity, pop art.

By Maria Moldes

Located in Carballo, ES

The photograph measures 40 x 40 cm. It is printed on matte Hahnehmühle paper. The dimension of time for María Moldes (Pontevedra, 1974) is used as a weapon of resistance against wha...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Piazza San Marco, Italy, Architectural Photograph
Piazza San Marco, Italy, Architectural Photograph

Piazza San Marco, Italy, Architectural Photograph

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

60 x 40 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 50 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 90 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogra...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Untitled 1.18" Still Life Photography 16' x 24' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina
"Untitled 1.18" Still Life Photography 16' x 24' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina

"Untitled 1.18" Still Life Photography 16' x 24' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina

By García De Marina

Located in Culver City, CA

"Untitled 1.18" Still Life Photography 16' x 24' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the artist Not framed. Ships rolled in tu...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

"Untitled 8.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina

"Untitled 8.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina

By García De Marina

Located in Culver City, CA

"Untitled 8.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the artist García de Marina was born in Gijó...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Set of 2 paintings / Natural pigment on canvas, pine wood, conceptual
Set of 2 paintings / Natural pigment on canvas, pine wood, conceptual

Set of 2 paintings / Natural pigment on canvas, pine wood, conceptual

By TUSET

Located in Carballo, ES

This series by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña, Spain) titled "Land paintings (or what painting is not)", is a series of paintings that the artist had buried in th...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Organic Material, Varnish, Canvas, Wood

Detail From: The Saints Laurentius and Catherine, Giovanni Gaddi, 1380 painting
Detail From: The Saints Laurentius and Catherine, Giovanni Gaddi, 1380 painting

Detail From: The Saints Laurentius and Catherine, Giovanni Gaddi, 1380 painting

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Detail From: The Saints Laurentius and Catherine, Giovanni Gaddi, 1380 painting Berlin Painting Gallery 2008 Two editions available. This 2008 conceptual photograph by German photo...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Landscape Botanic Expressionist
Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Landscape Botanic Expressionist

Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Landscape Botanic Expressionist

By TUSET

Located in Carballo, ES

Black And White Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The title of this works is "From the Apollon...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)

Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Reinhard Görner Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid 2017 59 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 71 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 83 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed Internal Keywords: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Madrid, Spain, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, Spanish Libraries, Spanish Monuments, Library Photography...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda, C Print

"ANTIQUE GAMES. Love story." Original conceptual  painting. Large .Horizontal
"ANTIQUE GAMES. Love story." Original conceptual  painting. Large .Horizontal

"ANTIQUE GAMES. Love story." Original conceptual painting. Large .Horizontal

By Nadezda Stupina

Located in Oslo, NO

In this piece, I've harmoniously blended acrylics, spray paint, and ink to evoke the timeless dance of intimate connection. The vintage vibes and fine art elements coalesce, crafting...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic

"Antique games. Antique drama." Original conceptual  painting. Large. Horizontal
"Antique games. Antique drama." Original conceptual  painting. Large. Horizontal

"Antique games. Antique drama." Original conceptual painting. Large. Horizontal

By Nadezda Stupina

Located in Oslo, NO

In the paintings of this series , images of antique figures and statues are used to talk about the eternal in modern language , as well as to present antiquity in a modern way .The w...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Sign Of The Time - large scale photograph of conceptual motivational billboard
Sign Of The Time - large scale photograph of conceptual motivational billboard

Sign Of The Time - large scale photograph of conceptual motivational billboard

By Frank Schott

Located in San Francisco, CA

Large format photograph of a billboard signage in California desert landscape, from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana roadside signs and billboards cap...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Flight. 1999. Oil on canvas, 76x91 cm
Flight. 1999. Oil on canvas, 76x91 cm

Flight. 1999. Oil on canvas, 76x91 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

Flight 1999. Oil on canvas, 76x91 cm Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate ...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards

Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards

By Fred Langford Edwards

Located in Carballo, ES

Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards

Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards

By Fred Langford Edwards

Located in Carballo, ES

Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Isabelle Carbonell "Kansas" Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of Four
Isabelle Carbonell "Kansas" Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of Four

Isabelle Carbonell "Kansas" Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of Four

Located in Detroit, MI

"Kansas" is one of a set of four digital prints whose titles were inspired by the iconic film The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland. The other three are titled: The Land of OZ, The ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Separate Walkways, Minimalist Etching by Robert Morris
Separate Walkways, Minimalist Etching by Robert Morris

Separate Walkways, Minimalist Etching by Robert Morris

By Robert Morris

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Robert Morris, American (1931 - ) Title: Separate Walkways: The Wardens Above, the Inmates Below from In the Realm of the Carceral Year: 1979 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed...

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Flora and Fauna Silkscreen
Flora and Fauna Silkscreen

Flora and Fauna Silkscreen

By Michail Grobman

Located in Surfside, FL

Shipping will be a bit longer as this piece is located in Israel Michail Grobman, Israeli, born in Soviet Union, 1939. Michail Grobman was born in Moscow. He grew up writing poetry...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cast Aside 2 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait Africa Modern Woman
Cast Aside 2 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait Africa Modern Woman

Cast Aside 2 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait Africa Modern Woman

By Michael Adetula

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

The inspiration for this work was gotten from the view of some African parents, most of our African parents believe that earrings and dreadlocks are meant for ladies and when they ha...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Cast Aside 1 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait Africa Modern Woman
Cast Aside 1 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait Africa Modern Woman

Cast Aside 1 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait Africa Modern Woman

By Michael Adetula

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

The inspiration for this work was gotten from the view of some African parents, most of our African parents believe that earrings and dreadlocks are meant for ladies and when they ha...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Baroque - Mixed media by Marisa Busanel - 1964
Baroque - Mixed media by Marisa Busanel - 1964

Baroque - Mixed media by Marisa Busanel - 1964

By Marisa Busanel

Located in Roma, IT

Mixed media on wooden panels realized by Marisa Busanel in 1970s. Painted wood panel with applied sculptural dress element in lead or lead-like metal, polychrome surface with incise...

Category

1960s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Bestty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Love, Floral
Bestty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Love, Floral

Bestty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Love, Floral

By Abayomi Odetomi

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 Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Oil

Viva - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait of a Woman with Flowers
Viva - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait of a Woman with Flowers

Viva - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait of a Woman with Flowers

By Abayomi Odetomi

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 Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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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.