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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
Reinhard Görner, Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin
Reinhard Görner, Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin

Reinhard Görner, Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görne...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Untitled - Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Polaroid, Photograph

Untitled - Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Polaroid, Photograph

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Untitled' 2015, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print, based on an IMPOSSIBLE 8x10 Polaroid, 27 cm x 21.5 cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificat...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Wake Up Man from Bullet Space, Your House is Mine - Screenprint by Eric Drooker

Wake Up Man from Bullet Space, Your House is Mine - Screenprint by Eric Drooker

By Eric Drooker

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Eric Drooker, American (1958 - ) Title: Wake Up Man from Bullet Space, Your House is Mine Year: 1988-1992 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: 126/150 Size: 23...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Notre Dame 3 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 3 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Notre Dame 3' 2010, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Pigment Print, based on a Polaroid 810 transfer process, 27.3x20cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist c...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Colored Columns III: Neue Museum, Berlin

Colored Columns III: Neue Museum, Berlin

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

New Museum, Berlin 3 sizes 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 87.5 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimm...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Fires 8, 2018 - Autumnal Seasonal Landscape in Ancient English Woodland

Fires 8, 2018 - Autumnal Seasonal Landscape in Ancient English Woodland

By Ellie Davies

Located in Brighton, GB

Fires 8, 2018 - Autumnal Seasonal Landscape in Ancient English Woodland by Ellie Davies Fires 8 by Ellie Davies is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, availa...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital, C Print, Color

Waterdrops, Lithograph by Kim Tschang-Yeul
Waterdrops, Lithograph by Kim Tschang-Yeul

Waterdrops, Lithograph by Kim Tschang-Yeul

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Tschang-Yeul Kim, Korean (1929 - ) Title: Water Drops Year: 1988 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 Size: 43.5 in. x 29 in. (110.49 cm x 73.66 cm)

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Notre Dame 8 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 8 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Notre Dame 8' 2010, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Pigment Print, based on a Polaroid 810 transfer process, 27.3x20cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artis...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Fast Food Still Life, Modern Print of  Orange Food Scene, Animal Print  Texture
Fast Food Still Life, Modern Print of  Orange Food Scene, Animal Print  Texture

Fast Food Still Life, Modern Print of Orange Food Scene, Animal Print Texture

By Ryan Rivadeneyra

Located in Barcelona, ES

"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects and textures arranged meti...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée, Ar...

Notre Dame 2 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 2 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Notre Dame 2' 2010, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Pigment Print, based on a Polaroid 810 transfer process, 27.3x20cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artis...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Notre Dame 4 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 4 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Notre Dame 4' 2010, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Pigment Print, based on a Polaroid 810 transfer process, 27.3x20cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and arti...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Notre Dame 12 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 12 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Notre Dame 12 (Paris) - available Editions 1, 2, 3 of 10 + 2AP. Archival Pigment Print, photographed with a super-large Polaroid 20x24 camera in Paris in 2015, 90x58cm, not mounted. ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Notre Dame 11 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 11 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Notre Dame 11' - available Editions 1, 2, 3 of 10 + 2AP. Archival Pigment Print, photographed with a super-large Polaroid 20x24 camera in Paris in 2015, 90x58cm, not mounted. Signed...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Notre Dame 11 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons
Notre Dame 11 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 11 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Notre Dame 11' - Editions 1, 2, 3 of 10 + 2AP. Archival Pigment Print, Photographed with a super-large Polaroid 20x24 camera in Paris in 2015, 90x58cm, not mounted. Signed, embossed...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Notre Dame 9 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 9 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Notre Dame 9' - Editions 1, 2, 3 of 10 + 2AP, archival Pigment Print, Photographed with a super-large Polaroid 20x24 camera in Paris in 2015, 90x58cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Hall with Columns, Old National Gallery, Berlin, Architectural Photograph
Hall with Columns, Old National Gallery, Berlin, Architectural Photograph

Hall with Columns, Old National Gallery, Berlin, Architectural Photograph

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

60 x 90 inches ed. of 10 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of rooms. An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge. "Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Notre Dame 7 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 7 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Notre Dame 7' 2010, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Pigment Print, based on a Polaroid 810 transfer process, 20x27.3cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist c...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Polaroid, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Notre Dame 6 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 6 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Notre Dame 6' 2010, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Pigment Print, based on a Polaroid 810 transfer process, 20x27.3cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist c...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Polaroid, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Notre Dame 5 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

Notre Dame 5 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Notre Dame 5' 2010, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Pigment Print, based on a Polaroid 810 transfer process, 27.3x20cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist c...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color, Polaroid, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

"Raven Skull" Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio Pacific Northwest 1993
"Raven Skull" Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio Pacific Northwest 1993

"Raven Skull" Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio Pacific Northwest 1993

Located in Portland, OR

DIANNE KORNBERG (1945) RAVEN SKULL, Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio, 1993 A selenium toned gelatin silver print edition 7/15. Housed in a high quality hardwood frame with acid free and UV materials. Kornberg is a Professor Emerita at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, she relocated her studio to an Island in the San Juan Archipelago in Washington State. Since that time she has been collaborating with two poets, making prints that are photo based but also incorporate drawing, painting, software artifacts and text. Kornberg earned a BFA from the University of Washington...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph

Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

A breathtaking homage to the grandeur of knowledge, Reinhard Görner’s Shining Wall of Books captures the luminous beauty of one of the world’s most revered libraries. This masterfull...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Sleeping Beauty, Old National Gallery, Berlin

Sleeping Beauty, Old National Gallery, Berlin

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

80 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 93.2 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumenta...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

The Blue Books, Upper Library, Oxford, German Interior Architecture Photograph
The Blue Books, Upper Library, Oxford, German Interior Architecture Photograph

The Blue Books, Upper Library, Oxford, German Interior Architecture Photograph

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

An exquisite meditation on knowledge and architectural splendor, Reinhard Görner’s The Blue Books invites the viewer into the hallowed halls of Oxford’s Upper Library. The interplay ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Duke Humfrey's Library I, Oxford, England
Duke Humfrey's Library I, Oxford, England

Duke Humfrey's Library I, Oxford, England

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Duke Humfrey's Library I 54.2 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 65.1 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 75.9 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimme...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Basilica, Bode Museum

Basilica, Bode Museum

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces. An acti...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Rope Swing

Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Rope Swing

By Su Yu

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on canvas Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Beijing. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Chen Danqing at Oil Paintin...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ottoman half moustache
Ottoman half moustache

Ottoman half moustache

By Emilio Isgrò

Located in Roma, RM

Emilio Isgrò (Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto 1937), Half an Ottoman Moustache (2010) Mixed media on paper 43.5×31.5 cm signed and dated lower right, title on back. Work accompanied by a...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Original Pompe Caruelle - water pump, vintage French antique poster
Original Pompe Caruelle - water pump, vintage French antique poster

Original Pompe Caruelle - water pump, vintage French antique poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original linen-backed fun vintage poster "POMPE CARUELLE" full lithograph from 1924. Printed by Gaillard, Paris, France. Linen baked in very fine condition, A-.. Ready to Frame. The image features a boy showing how easy the new Pomjpe Caruelle is to use, able to work it with just one hand. Above him are featured an American Indian, a Chinese man, a Man in a green hat, and an African with large earrings and a nose ring...

Category

1920s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Ganymed, Palazzo Grimani, Venice

Ganymed, Palazzo Grimani, Venice

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

50 x 49 inches ed of 10 $6,000 60 x 59 inches ed of 7 $9,000 70 x 68.8 inches ed of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of rooms. An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge. "Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm I in the Hall of Mirrors after France was defeated in 1870–1871 in the Franco-German War. The Treaty of Versailles following World War I was also signed there in 1919. In this sense, the architectural photographs of Versailles...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda, C Print

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

By Brenda Zlamany

Located in Surfside, FL

This is a proof print. signed and marked bat (for bon a tirer or good to print) This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″ (sheet size). Muse [X] Editions. Taxidermy Bird. Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA) Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Select Museums: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; the National Museum, Gdansk; Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Select Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum; Deutsche Bank; the Museum of Modern Art, Houston; the Neuberger Museum of Art; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the World Bank; the Yale University Art Gallery. Select Commissions the World Bank, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover, Jeffrey Dahmer) Select Grants and Awards: Fulbright Fellowship (2011), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07), New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994). MacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986) Yaddo (1997). For many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making. Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Colored Columns III: Neue Museum, Berlin

Colored Columns III: Neue Museum, Berlin

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

New Museum, Berlin 3 sizes 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 87.5 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso An active arch...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Stairway to Heaven, Lello Bookshop, Portugal

Stairway to Heaven, Lello Bookshop, Portugal

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

50 x 46.3 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 55.6 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 64.8 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format ph...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Monkeying Around - Animal Painting by Marc
Monkeying Around - Animal Painting by Marc

Monkeying Around - Animal Painting by Marc

By Marc Zimmerman

Located in Carmel, CA

Monkeys at play in a coral backdrop and colorful flowing foliage. Good for reminding us of our playful nature. Monkeying Around - Animal Paintings - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil

Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)

Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Rose Main Reading Room, 2014 Public Library New York 70 x 88.9 inches Ed. of 5 60 x 76.2 inches Ed. of 7 50 x 63.5 Ed. of 10 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner,...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

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

Haystack, After Monet #3 (Pictures of Color)
Haystack, After Monet #3 (Pictures of Color)

Haystack, After Monet #3 (Pictures of Color)

By Vik Muniz

Located in Greenwich, CT

Haystack, After Monet #3 was created by Vik Muniz for his 'Pictures of Color' series. The art is 47.5 x 67 inches and the framed size is 52.25 x 72.5 inches. There is a label on the verso with the artist's signature and edition number AP 1/5. From the total edition of 15 of which there were 10 Arabics and 5 APs. Framed in the original artist's frame. Literature: Pedro Corrêa do Lago, Vik Muniz: Obra Completa 1987-2009, Rio de Janeiro, 2009, pg.456. Vik Muniz — Haystack, After Monet #3 (from Pictures of Color) Vik Muniz’s Pictures of Color series stands at a pivotal moment in the evolution of visual culture. Conceived for the Venice Biennale, the series responds to the year when digital cameras first outsold film cameras worldwide, a symbolic tipping point in how images are made, shared, and believed. While exploring Venice’s long tradition of mosaic art, Muniz recognized a striking parallel between ancient mosaics and the emerging digital pixel: both construct images from countless discrete units, inviting viewers to experience perception as an assembly of parts. In Pictures of Color, Muniz replaces the pixel with a tactile, analog counterpart: Pantone color chips. Each work is composed of thousands of hand-placed squares, arranged with meticulous precision to form images that appear crisp and cohesive at a distance. As the viewer approaches, the illusion dissolves into grids of pure color. This oscillation between clarity and fragmentation, between image and code, lies at the heart of the series. Muniz reveals the mechanics behind seeing in the digital age, prompting the viewer to consider how images are built, translated, and trusted. Within this broader project, Muniz created a subseries dedicated to reinterpreting Monet’s iconic haystacks. Monet’s original paintings...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, C Print

Venus and Amor I, 1530, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Painting Detail Photograph
Venus and Amor I, 1530, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Painting Detail Photograph

Venus and Amor I, 1530, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Painting Detail Photograph

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Reinhard Görner’s Venus and Amor I presents an exquisite close-up of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1530 masterpiece, capturing the delicate interplay of sensuality and symbolism characte...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

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

Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin
Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin

Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görne...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Survival Pencils
Survival Pencils

Survival Pencils

By Jenny Holzer

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Jenny Holzer's menacing "Truisms" first appeared in 1983 when the artist was invited to participate in a group show exploring the themes and dialogue from George Orwell's "1984". O...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Pencil

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.