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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
Flora 15, 2015 - Yellow Snapdragon Star Flower Portrait

Flora 15, 2015 - Yellow Snapdragon Star Flower Portrait

By Marisa Culatto

Located in Brighton, GB

Flora 15, 2015 - Yellow Snapdragon Star Flower Portrait by Marisa Culatto Flora 11 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée

Flora 13, 2015 - Green Beetle Photography Natural Environment Portrait

Flora 13, 2015 - Green Beetle Photography Natural Environment Portrait

By Marisa Culatto

Located in Brighton, GB

Flora 13, 2015 - Green Beetle Photography Natural Environment Portrait by Marisa Culatto Flora 14 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only f...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée

Head Tie 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Women, African
Head Tie 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Women, African

Head Tie 1 - 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

Help From Above - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman, Modern
Help From Above - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman, Modern

Help From Above - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman, Modern

By Michael Adetula

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. About Artist Mic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Archival Ink

Electric Donjon, Surrealist Etching from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990
Electric Donjon, Surrealist Etching from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990

Electric Donjon, Surrealist Etching from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990

By Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Russian (1955 - ) Title: Electric Donjon from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990 Year: 1990 Medium: Etching on German Rag paper, signed...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching

Prelude to Dawn
Prelude to Dawn

Prelude to Dawn

By Kevin Kegler

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original conceptual hand carved and joined wood wall sculpture by Kevin Kegler. This work is currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition inside The Corridors Gallery at ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Copper

Miami Inspired Art Deco Still Life, Studio54, Pastel Tones Disco Lights, Purple
Miami Inspired Art Deco Still Life, Studio54, Pastel Tones Disco Lights, Purple

Miami Inspired Art Deco Still Life, Studio54, Pastel Tones Disco Lights, Purple

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, Digital, G...

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Pink - Floral color photo
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Pink - Floral color photo

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Pink - Floral color photo

By Heidler & Heeps

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

Flora 16, 2015 - Autumnal Floral Fruit Seasonal Arrangement Frozen in Ice Print

Flora 16, 2015 - Autumnal Floral Fruit Seasonal Arrangement Frozen in Ice Print

By Marisa Culatto

Located in Brighton, GB

Flora 16, 2015 - Autumnal Floral Fruit Seasonal Arrangement Frozen in Ice Print Flora 16 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Giclée, Color

Flora 3, 2015 - Summer Spring Seasonal Goldenrod Flowers Frozen in Ice Print

Flora 3, 2015 - Summer Spring Seasonal Goldenrod Flowers Frozen in Ice Print

By Marisa Culatto

Located in Brighton, GB

Flora 3, 2015 - Summer Spring Seasonal Goldenrod Flowers Frozen in Ice Print Flora 3 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Giclée, Photographic Paper, Color

Deborah
Deborah

Deborah

By Oluwafemi Afolabi

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell and got back up again." I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. “The peasantry ceased, they ceas...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Upright Impression
Upright Impression

Upright Impression

By John Ali

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

"Upright Impression" by John Ali captures the innocence, resilience, and curiosity of youth through the portrayal of a young girl. In this captivating artwork, the girl stands tall a...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boschereccia Palazzo, Hercolani, Bologna

Boschereccia Palazzo, Hercolani, Bologna

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Boschereccia Palazzo Hercolani, Bologna, Italy 2022 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on labe...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Window. Oil on canvas, 80x120 cm
Window. Oil on canvas, 80x120 cm

Window. Oil on canvas, 80x120 cm

By Elga Grinvalde

Located in Riga, LV

Window. Oil on canvas, 80x120 cm Elga Grinvalde ”ellgrii” Born in Valka (Latvia) 1966 Education: 1982-1986 Riga Applied Art College,Latvia department of glasswork desig. 1994-1998...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

HOPE - 4 conceptual still life photographs spelling motivational word
HOPE - 4 conceptual still life photographs spelling motivational word

HOPE - 4 conceptual still life photographs spelling motivational word

By Christian Stoll

Located in San Francisco, CA

large scale conceptual environmental still life photographs playing with viewer's perspective creating individual letters from found objects spelling the word HOPE H-O-P-E by Christ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Los Americanos
Los Americanos

Los Americanos

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 Art

Materials

Cotton, Photographic Paper

Solid Liquid, Conceptual Hand-Blown Glass by Arik Levy
Solid Liquid, Conceptual Hand-Blown Glass by Arik Levy

Solid Liquid, Conceptual Hand-Blown Glass by Arik Levy

Located in Long Island City, NY

Arik Levy, Israeli (1963 - ) - Solid Liquid, Medium: Hand-Blown Colored and Silvered Glass, Size: 27 x 18 x 18 in. (68.58 x 45.72 x 45.72 cm)

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Blown Glass

Post Conceptual Digital Artist Oil Painting Screenprint Diptych Joseph Nechvatal
Post Conceptual Digital Artist Oil Painting Screenprint Diptych Joseph Nechvatal

Post Conceptual Digital Artist Oil Painting Screenprint Diptych Joseph Nechvatal

Located in Surfside, FL

Joseph Nechvatal The Oedipal God of Oil Paint and Destruction, Diptych Oil and screenprint on two canvases, 1985, both signed 'Joseph Nechvatal', titled and dated on the reverse, with label from Brooke Alexander, NY. Joseph James Nechvatal (born 15 January 1951) is a post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses. Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago. He studied fine art and philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Cornell University and Columbia University, where he studied with Arthur Danto while serving as the archivist to the minimalist composer La Monte Young. From 1979, he exhibited his work in New York City, primarily at Galerie Richard, Brooke Alexander Gallery and Universal Concepts Unlimited. He has also solo exhibited in Berlin, Paris, Chicago, Cologne, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Aalst, Belgium, Youngstown, Senouillac, Lund, Toulouse, Turin, Arles and Munich. His work in the early 1980s chiefly consisted of post minimalist gray graphite drawings that were often photo mechanically enlarged. During that period he was associated with the artist group Colab and helped establish the non-profit cultural space ABC No Rio. In 1983 he co-founded the avant-garde electronic art music audio project Tellus Audio Cassette...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Screen

Palm Springs 7

Palm Springs 7

By Vanessa Marsh

Located in Sante Fe, NM

Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photogram

Contemporary Giclée Photo of Modern Still Life, Tableware Figures on Pink & Blue
Contemporary Giclée Photo of Modern Still Life, Tableware Figures on Pink & Blue

Contemporary Giclée Photo of Modern Still Life, Tableware Figures on Pink & Blue

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, Photographic Paper, Giclée

NO SMOKING, Rare historic 1970s Fluxus hand pulled silkscreen mid century design
NO SMOKING, Rare historic 1970s Fluxus hand pulled silkscreen mid century design

NO SMOKING, Rare historic 1970s Fluxus hand pulled silkscreen mid century design

Located in New York, NY

Maciunas & George Brecht, George Maciunas, George Brecht No Smoking, ca. 1973 Rare, historic Hand pulled Fluxus silkscreen Limited edition and rarely found collectible (though exact number produced not known) 16 31/50 × 16 3/4 inches Black and white hand-pulled silk screen by George Maciunas of George Brecht's iconic ”No Smoking” offset wallpaper squares George Maciunas was a Lithuanian American artist, art historian, and art organizer who was the founding member and central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. "George Maciunas had an extreme dislike of smoking. Being an asthmatic he could not tolerate it personally and with his complete devotion to Fluxus, professionally he felt there was no time or space for such a self-indulgent act. This disdain led fellow Fluxus artist, George Brecht to suggest a “no smoking” sign...

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night

Three Dog Night

By Michael Beam

Located in Buffalo, NY

The title for this work was inspired by the ruminations of Charles Manson in the 2010 publication Charles Manson NOW. “When you come to prison and you stay the fifteen years, all the dogs of the world are dead when you come back out, there is no dog that was a live when you were out last time. The three dog...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Glitter, Spray Paint

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Maria Carbonero

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

By Jack Florczyk

Located in New York, NY

Homage to the late great musician Tupac Shakur. Images. Lyrics from his songs. Not framed. Acrylic paint on sheet music wheat pasted to wood panel. ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

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 75 x 60 inches ed. of 5 87.5 x 70 inches ed. of 5 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actua...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

THE NAME OF THE FLOWER: PANSY “JOKER VIOLA-GOLD”
THE NAME OF THE FLOWER: PANSY “JOKER VIOLA-GOLD”

THE NAME OF THE FLOWER: PANSY “JOKER VIOLA-GOLD”

By Ken Aptekar

Located in Surfside, FL

Genre: Contemporary Subject: Nature Medium: Ink, Sandblasted Glass, Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions: 20" x 20" Dimensions w/Frame: 21" x 21" x 2" KEN APTEKAR (b.19...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Glass, Ink

Gentleman, Marble and Travertine Conceptual Sculpture
Gentleman, Marble and Travertine Conceptual Sculpture

Gentleman, Marble and Travertine Conceptual Sculpture

By Maria Dompe

Located in Surfside, FL

MARIA DOMPE, (Italian, b. 1958), Gentleman Sculpture, marble and travertine, 1995, height: 20 in. One of a pair, (Gentleman and Lady) being sold separately. Maria Dompe was born in ...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Travertine, Marble

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

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 32 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

Arches, Bode Museum, Berlin

Arches, Bode Museum, Berlin

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Arches, Bode Museum, Berlin 40 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $5,000 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 5 $6,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photograp...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda

Barbie in a Box - 3D Ltd Ed 5/10

Barbie in a Box - 3D Ltd Ed 5/10

By Reisig and Taylor

Located in New York, NY

An homage to the famed Barbie Doll. About the Artists: Animated through an assemblage of analog, digital, and lenticular photographic technologies, these selections from Reisig a...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lenticular

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.