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
Oil
Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-54 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-54
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 23,4 x 14,5 cm (9 1/4 x 5 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
French Contemporary Sculpture by B. Domenico - Where the Wild Roses Grows ?
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 - Table of Hunting
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
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
By the Sea Ltd Ed 1/25
By Phil Marco
Located in New York, NY
Ltd Ed 1/25. Face mounted Plexi. Aluminum Braced. Archival Print. Female form at the seashore, made to appear part fish.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Marco studied fine art at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York. New York Times photography critic Gene Thornton called Marco “a Minimalist, whose images are sensual, whimsical, often surreal, always strong, and deceptively simple.”
“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Phil Marco on a number of my films. Phil is a man of extraordinary talents. It seems that his passion is to take an everyday object or event, and show it in an entirely new and exciting way.”
Martin Scorsese.
Phil’s work is represented in MOMA, The Museum of the Moving Image,
and The George Eastman Museum of Photography.
His first photographs were studies for his paintings, before he launched a career in print advertising. He eventually became a Director / DP for film and television for a vast base of national and international clients with his wife Patricia as Partner and Producer. In the 1980’s and 90’s Phil was the go to person for Special Effects in Television and Cinema, also best known for his graphic conceptual still lives, and his consummate mastery of lighting, and design. He’s won many awards for his work, including numerous Cannes Lions, Cleo’s, a Grammy for his print work on the legendary “Tommy the Who...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Giclée
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
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Engraving
Witching Hour
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Dramatic. Female centric. Nighttime. Mysterious.
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
Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2825
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in fabric scroll
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2826
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver gindei, mounted in Japanese silk scroll
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American ar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 3042
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in Japanese silk scroll
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Mujo 3043
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver ginder & mounted in Japanese silk scroll
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American ar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 3041
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper & mounted in Japanese silk scroll
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2825
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper, mounted in fabric scroll
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. K...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2826
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver gindei, mounted in Japanese silk scroll
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American art...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2822
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya 100% kozo paper mulberry washi, with overpainting in acrylic and mineral pigments, mounted in Japanese silk scroll
Kojun is an self-...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2823
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper, with retouching in acrylic and silver gindei, mounted in Japanese silk scroll
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American art...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2820
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya 100% kozo paper mulberry washi layered over inkjet print of digital photograph on Awagami kozo usukuchi washi, mounted in Japanese si...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2821
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya 100% kozo paper mulberry washi with silver origami backing paper, mounted in Japanese silk scroll
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Best Friends - Lego Art - Original
Located in New York, NY
Dog and bird together. Made completely of legos.
About the Artist:
Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pieces,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Small PIece
Located in New York, NY
Digital Art. 2 masks at dusk. Produced on metal. Floats in white frame.
About the Artist:
Chad Knight’s vibrant digital art moves between the medita...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Sculpture by Kojun - VHK3M2019
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Gloss finish gold leaf over ABS thermoplastic viewer / Washi diffuser with gold-tone wash and gold kindei wash
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2513
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on aluminum leaf on paper
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Mujo 2459
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 22471
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started i...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 4491
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started i...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 22481
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started i...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2462
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2461
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2463
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started i...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2452
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on silver leaf on paper
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2450
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on Kakejikuya kozo washi
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started i...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2350
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2255
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2251
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digital photograph on hemp washi
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010 expl...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2247
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digtial photgraph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 199...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2101
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on brass leaf on paper
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 2010...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
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
We Now Have All The Data
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
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
Oddity
Located in New York, NY
Figurative piece with a fun, simple narrative. The beauty of the piece lies in its simplicity. On 3/4 canvas.
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
The Last Narcissus
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
Conceptual. Acrylic on canvas.
About the Artist:
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen Hall moved to New York in 1978 and began exhibiting his work in the East Village in the earl...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Elizabeth - 3D 6/10
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the famed Elizabeth Taylor.
About the Artists:
Animated through an assemblage of analog, digital, and lenticular photographic technologies, these selections from Reisi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lenticular
The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
Conceptual piece. Commentary on life. Humorous. Featuring astronaut and a bottle of Tide detergent. Acrylic on canvas.
About the artist:
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen H...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Untitled, MT Inv. No 6-9-23 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 6-9-23
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 23 x 16,5 cm (9 x 6 1/2 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, practic...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 18,1 x 13,2 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/4 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
Greater Good
Located in New York, NY
Digital Art. Female form in landscape. Produced on metal with white 2 inch border.
About the Artist:
Chad is more than just a freelance artist, he is the Head of 3D Design at Nike and not so long ago retired from an exciting career as a professional skateboarder that ran from 1998-2011. Nowadays, when he isn’t working for Nike, his unique artwork is enjoyed by people around the world. Chad Knight...
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
Hot Property!
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
General Idea was formed in 1967 as a collective of three Canadian artists in Toronto, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson. Over the next 30 years, the ...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
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
1980s 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
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
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
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