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 a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Conceptual Drawing: Plot Plan No. 170516
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 170516 3-Ring Structure for Covert Spectacle With Self-Generating Concealment Mechanisms
framed, signature on reverse
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
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
Engraving
Untitled, MT Inv. No. 11-1-170 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No. 11-1-170
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 19,2 x 11,6 cm (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media
untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
"NeoRealism (on the Subway)" conceptual, text based work on paper
By David Kramer
Located in New York, NY
38"x25" signed by the artist, David Kramer. (oil, enamel, acrylic, pencil on gessoed paper) In this conceptual work on paper, the text "Keeping it Real...Whatever That Means" is wr...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Enamel
Cool Ducks
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
2 cool ducks floating. Fun.
About the Artist:
Jim Molloy is a studio and plein air painter.
"I like to try to find and capture the beauty and simplicity of the world around u...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Precarious
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
Conceptual piece. Commentary on life. Humorous but impactful. Acrylic on canvas.
About the artist:
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen Hall moved to New York in 1978 and began...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Engraving
Marilyn
Located in New York, NY
Marilyn Monroe Painting.
About the Artist:
Le Closier is a Belgian painter living in New York. After moving to Paris in the early 2000's...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Rigged Opulence Compartment
Located in New York, NY
"Rigged Opulence Compartment With Temporal Resonance Modules"
framed, with signature on reverse
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Plot Plan No. 170518
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 170518 Self-Generating Polarization Structure With Pronounced Left Hemisphere Compartmentalization
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newl...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
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
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
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - War and Peace
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
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - La Joie est Là !
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional & classical sculpture & teachings from Nouveaux Réalistes.
Th...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Bulb
Located in New York, NY
Walker Pickering is an artist and educator based in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he has taught photography sinc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and an authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Untitled, MT Inv. No 11-1-120 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 11-1-120
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 17,9 x 13 cm (7 x 5 1/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, pract...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Wax Crayon
Not If But When
By Alex Gingrow
Located in New York, NY
graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist
The text in this painting reads like a mantra: Not If But When, in grades of red, pink and blue on a washed gre...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Graphite
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Satirical Text Based Conceptual Painting: "Log Entries..."
By David Kramer
Located in New York, NY
38"x27" signed by the artist, David Kramer. (acrylic, pencil on gessoed paper) In this conceptual work on paper, the text "Handmade Memes... Old World Flavor." is hand drawn to loo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Oil, Pencil
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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Praise for the Misguided
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Conceptual piece - female centric.
About the artist:
“There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern feeling of reflection, observation and cultural critique. Somewhere between the Cohen Brothers...
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
Mixed Media
Pose
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Acrylic
Niño a caballo
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, C Print
Marx
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Aguas Serenas
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
"Hard Shell Confinement Structure"
Located in New York, NY
Potentially Materialized Hard Shell Confinement Structure (Plot Plan No. 10618)
framed, pen and ink with watercolor, signed on reverse by the artist.
Beautifully rendered in ink an...
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
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Printer's Ink
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
Two Figures (One with Shadow), from Hegel's Cellar Portfolio
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
John Baldessari
Two Figures (One with Shadow), from Hegel's Cellar Portfolio
1986
Photogravure and sugar-lift acquatint on torn Rives BFK deckle, printed almo...
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Photogravure
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-6-88 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-6-88
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 17 x 10,3 cm (6 3/4 x 4 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, practic...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Plot Plan No. 10616
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 10616 Potentially Materialized Triple Chamber Confinement Study
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series: "Shelter in...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled "Hand" Sculpture installation by Michael Sailstorfer German Artist
Located in Paris, FR
How is the business going, the stock market is going up or down? comment ça va bien ? La vie est belle? You Like or not Like ? ...
The motorized sculpture of Michael is rotative. Depending on the mood of each, this giant hand with a thumb up or down or in between, lets the viewer choose the direction of the thumb by removing the plug once the choice is made.
With his inexhaustible ingenuity, Michael Sailstorfer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Steel
Untitled, MT Inv. No 9-1-56 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 9-1-56
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 28,4 x 19,5 cm (11 1/8 x 7 5/8 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
Elmwood and Oaklawn
By Ross Racine
Located in New York, NY
archival pigment print
image size: 23.5"x 31.5" on 26.75"x 34.5" sheet
edition of 10
available unframed
This print is a surreal depiction of an aerial view of a ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
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, MT Inv. No 7-8-73 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-8-73
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 29,3 x 19,7 cm (11 1/2 x 7 3/4 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
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