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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Relocation Lasso
Located in New York, NY
Designated Problem Area Relocation Lasso (Plot Plan No. 170520 )
framed, with signature on reverse
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released ser...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
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 Art
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Canyon Whisper - Other sizes available
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Nature shot. In a canyon. Black and white.
About the artist:
Mital Patel is an internationally recognized nature and wildlife photographer who focuses on capturing bea...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
How the Rich Make Street Art - Palm Beach 5
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is. Landscaping art aesthetically is the opposite of the generally accepted meaning of Graffiti Street Art...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mixed Media Colorful Animal Watercolor Bunny Painting on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles. Born in Cuba, he received his graduate degree from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana in ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
`Irwin w/ beacon`, 2021 -`In;Human Nature` painting glacier nasa moon
Located in Oslo, NO
Edition of 3.
3 separate pieces make up this installation.
150 cm. x 150 cm. Pigment print mounted on aluminium. Framed in solid oak with museum glass.
, `The need for images that can change us. `
– An account of Christian Houges images.
“For example, one could say. A people is a “group of rational beings, bound together in agreement about what they love.” The kind of “people” they are, would be determined from what they “have loved.” If we then have a group of rational beings (animals excluded) who are “bound together in an agreement about what they have loved”, then it makes sense to call them a “people”, no matter what they may have loved. And for better or worse, what it is that they have found in common, through better or worse they are considered as a people”
– Augustin, De civitate Dei – The City of God.
..............In this context, another series by Christian Houge becomes interesting, because it not only sheds light on the national romanticism and the kind of historical movement it is part of, but also because it provides us with a critical look at how we imagine landscapes, and we are reflected in them, in the historical and social sense. In; In;Human Nature...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Diversity (Silver)
By Oleg Lobykin
Located in Napa, CA
Oleg Lobykin (Russian, b. 1966) is a sculptor. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Lobykin now resides in Silicon Valley and also specializes in the restoration of landmark architecture ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Fiberglass
Introspección
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
JUANA MARTÍNEZ
(Tlalpujajua, Michoacán, 1953) Lives and works in Tlalpujahua, Michoacán.
Juana lives in an isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere, ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Magazine Paper
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Vietnam War Protests Central Park - Nuclear War, Civil Rights, Agent Orange
Located in Miami, FL
In 1971, Central Park was a hub for Vietnam War Protests. In this work, Mitchell Funk captures a packed protest scene with emphasis on the graphic nature of the banners and flags. Th...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Art
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 Art
Materials
Mixed Media
De la serie aglomeraciones _02
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#draw #scketch #pencil #frame #box
Por un lado está el diario de lo que ha estado sucediendo durante los últimos meses alrededor del mundo. De pequeño formato, los dibujos muestran e...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
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 Art
Materials
Acrylic
Christo, Monuments: Portfolio with Ten Prints and One Sculpture, Signed Original
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo's portfolio of 10 prints and a scale model sculpture of the ‘5,600 Cubic Meter Package’ for Documenta 4 in Kassel, 1968 (height 68 cm). Sold in white vinyl portfolio box. The...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
Diversity (Yellow)
By Oleg Lobykin
Located in Napa, CA
Oleg Lobykin (Russian, b. 1966) is a sculptor. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Lobykin now resides in Silicon Valley and also specializes in the restoration of landmark architecture ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Fiberglass
Cuando el hombre se convierte en roca
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed #ambar
JUANA MARTÍNEZ
(Tlalpujajua, Michoa...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Stone
El sentido que nunca duerme
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed #ambar #wood
JUANA MARTÍNEZ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Precious Stone, Magazine Paper, Wood
El proceso del sol
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #clay #sun #energy
JUANA MARTÍNEZ
(Tlalp...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Magazine Paper, Clay
Las tres acuáticas llevando la información
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #water
JUANA MARTÍNEZ
(Tlalpujajua, Mi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Magazine Paper, Wood
Dialogo / diagonal
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 Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pins
Fuerza
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 Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pins
Descanso
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 Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pins
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 Art
Materials
Cotton, Color
El poder de la ofrenda
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
JUANA MARTÍNEZ
(Tlalpujajua, Michoacán, 1953) Lives and works in Tlalpujahua, Michoacán.
Juana lives in an isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere, ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Magazine Paper
Intervalos
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 Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pins
Ritmo
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 Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pins
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Untitled, MT Inv. No 4-089 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 4-089
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 20,6 x 12,3 cm (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, pr...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Engraving
Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-059 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-059
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 19,6 x 12,5 cm (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing.
Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period.
– Art, Black and White...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Diversity (Blue)
By Oleg Lobykin
Located in Napa, CA
Oleg Lobykin (Russian, b. 1966) is a sculptor. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Lobykin now resides in Silicon Valley and also specializes in the restoration of landmark architecture ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Fiberglass
"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 Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Diversity (Red)
By Oleg Lobykin
Located in Napa, CA
Oleg Lobykin (Russian, b. 1966) is a sculptor. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Lobykin now resides in Silicon Valley and also specializes in the restoration of landmark architecture ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Fiberglass
Tupac Shakur
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
Mujer en sofá
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Engraving
Empty Words, Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
JORGE WELLESELEY, Empty Words, 2009 Rusted steel, concrete Sculpture 17.5 x 18 x 12 in
Jorge Wellesley (Havana, 1979) Cuban-born artist based in Guttenberg, New Jersey. He received...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Concrete, Steel
#2
Located in New York, NY
Photojournalist portrait of vanishing Surma tribe. Printed on canvas. Shot in July 2018, over a month in Ethiopia.
"I wanted to photograph lost tribes because there are not m...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
Nude Show Girl Buttocks Pondered by Show Horse - Sexy Cartoon Mad Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
This sexy joke cartoon with thought balloons and some bathroom humor was done by the brilliant humorist cartoonist for Mad Magazine, Al Jaffee. The joke's...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
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 Art
Materials
Paper, Oil, Pencil
untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Family Coat of Arms
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Ride of Happy People
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Beautiful Blue
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical scul...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
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