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
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Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
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
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
Eva al desnudo
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Queen #2
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood featuring the famed Queen Band. Freddie Mercury in the lead. Photographed by Joester. Images on sides as well. Not framed.
Ab...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Photographic Film, 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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Wax Crayon
Relax
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
He Was My #1 Favorite, I Wish I Could Remember His Face
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Female centric.
About the Artist:
Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved herself exceptional is ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Borderless
Located in New York, NY
Digital Art. Female Forms. Love theme. Pink hue. 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 ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
CAROUSEL IN PINK
Located in New York, NY
CAROUSEL IN PINK
Large scale dynamic. A four-panel piece, artist's modern take on the traditional carousel. Imaginary horses, colorful and full of flamboyant gestures.
Each panel...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Water Pistol Lt Ed 2/20
By Phil Marco
Located in New York, NY
Photography. Water Pistol Lt Ed 2/20.
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
Archival Ink, Giclée
Prince - 3D
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the fabulous Prince.
About the Artists:
Animated through an assemblage of analog, digital, and lenticular photographic technologies, these selections from Reisig and Tay...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lenticular
Hand Of God
Located in New York, NY
Painting. Vibrant. Hands.
About the Artist:
Le Closier is a Belgian painter living in New York. After moving to Paris in the early 2000's, mixing Pop Art and Street Art, he st...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
RIC: Random Internet Cat #4
Located in New York, NY
Random Internet Cats
Robotically-fabricated drawings on paper, these series formally deal with mediation from screen image to ‘drawing’ while using a computer-controlled pen plotte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
RIC: Random Internet Cat #9
Located in New York, NY
Random Internet Cats
Robotically-fabricated drawings on paper, these series formally deal with mediation from screen image to ‘drawing’ while using a computer-controlled pen plotte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Glove Benedict
By Phil Marco
Located in New York, NY
Humorous subject matter. Face mounted Plexi. Aluminum Braced. Archival Print.
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
Archival Pigment, Giclée
One: Yellow
Located in New York, NY
Patrick is a conceptual artist, curator, and theorist exploring how media shape our perception of reality as well as the borders between the digital and the material. He is best know...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Pieces
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting. The implied narrative adds to the piece. A glimpse into a child's world, one we all have experienced. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal.
About the art...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wonderful World
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Woman on ladder in pool. Blue hues.
About the Artist:
Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved herse...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
#3
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
#5
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
Sci Fi Close Encounters with Orange New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Conceptual Photographer Mitchell Funk created a Sci-Fi image 2 years before the iconic Close Encounters of a Third Kind was released in 1977. Funk's work is really two images combine...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Frida - 3D
Located in New York, NY
An homage to the great Frida Kahlo.
About the Artists:
Animated through an assemblage of analog, digital, and lenticular photographic technologies, these selections from Reisig and...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lenticular
"Working Drawing for an Unfinished Project, " Lithograph by Robert Stackhouse
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Working Drawing for an Unfinished Project" is an original lithograph by Robert Stackhouse, numbered 99 578. It depicts abstract, sculptural drawings of a project the artist was work...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
Post-Renaissance NO2
Located in Porto, 13
"Through Traveling You're Able To Understand The World & Find Endless Inspiration" - Lixian Cai
Lixian began to travel outside of China, documenting each ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Institut for Cosmetic Surgery
By Joseph Beuys
Located in London, GB
Baked enamel on convex metal sheet, 1974, signed in black ball-point pen on the Edition Staeck label on the revers, from the numbered edition of 80, published by Edition Staeck, Heid...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal, Enamel
The Messenger
By Phil Marco
Located in New York, NY
Face Mounted Plexi. Aluminum braced archival print. Mysterious subject matter.
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
#1
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
Model: 1964 Renault Dauphine-Four, R-1095, Body Type And Seating: 4-DR Sedan-4 t
Located in New York, NY
Christopher Williams is a conceptual artist and fine art photographer
Gelatin Silver print, artist proof
Unsigned
11 x 14 inches
Provenance:
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Prime Colors
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
Nostalgic painting of vintage toy car that has been worked on by a novice mechanic. Oil on canvas with black frame one inch on front, two inches deep. This piece sold but commissio...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
You've Been Gone Too Long
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Female centric. Gathering.
About the Artist:
Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved herself ex...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
End of the Affair #3 Ltd Ed.
Located in New York, NY
Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
End of the Affair #4 Ltd Ed
Located in New York, NY
Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
Lonely Looking Wide Eyed Dog in a Car Window
Located in Miami, FL
A lonely-looking wide-eyed boxer peers out a car window in anticipation that his owner will return. On closer examination, this is not a photograph of a real Boxer but a cut out of...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Stahl - 3D
Located in New York, NY
Depiction of a kind of life.
About the Artists:
Animated through an assemblage of analog, digital, and lenticular photographic technologies, these selections from Reisig and Tayl...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lenticular
Four Seasons : colorful figurative work of art
By John Hrehov
Located in New York, NY
A diptych by an accomplished artist John Hrehov. The painting is a visual allegory of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, the characteristics of which can be seen in the backgrounds of...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Tempus Fugit
By Phil Marco
Located in New York, NY
Face mounted Plexi. Aluminum Braced. Archival Print. Humorous, conceptual subject matter.
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Water Music Series #5023 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon.
Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Habitáculos 1
Located in PARIS, FR
Giselle Borrás is a Colombian born artist who has lived and worked in Colombia, Spain and the United States of America. She has had several group and solo shows, and her work can be found in private collections across the United States and Colombia. She studied painting, drawing and color theory with several artists in Colombia and then continued her development in Madrid, Spain at The Fuencarral Studio. For the past twelve years she has been committed to her artistic work drawing inspiration from her continuous admiration for the human body.
The end results of her work are these subtle and weightless figures, created from maintaining the painting process spontaneous, filled with innocence and yet providing the viewer much force, energy and presence. Her colors remain consistent, always vibrant and bold, and the painting is finished when the idea has become a complete discussion. Art is a language spoken with fluency by this up and coming artist...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
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
EDOUARD MERZOUK - Chanel Fossil Bag
By Edouard Merzouk
Located in PARIS, FR
Chanel unique fossil scupture part of the ''Collapse'' collection :
About Collapse:
Ecological peril and social emergency may not be fantasies.
What if our civilization collapses t...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Cast Stone
Dé-coll/age happenings
By Wolf Vostell
Located in London, GB
3D multiple, 1966, published by The Something Else Press, New York, a wooden box with plexiglass slipcover, containing one book with 94 pages, ‘Performances Notations 1959/66’ 15 fol...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mylar, Plexiglass, Wood, Paper, Screen
«City mirror NO42_ New York World Trade Center »
Located in Porto, 13
"Through Traveling You're Able To Understand The World & Find Endless Inspiration" - Lixian Cai
Lixian began to travel outside of China, documenting each ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Golden Gate Bride with Sailboats
Located in Miami, FL
Cover Nikon World, Spring 2005, Published in Popular Photography Magazine 2000, Times Square Billboard 2001
Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 ...
Category
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Photographic Film
Apple Temptation
By Robin Austin
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Dye-Sublimation print on aluminum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
Concert Tee shirt Tapestry: 'The Mammoth Tapestry'
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Conceptual Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Certificate, from The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving
Located in London, GB
Etching on paper, 1962/64, signed and numbered E.A. from the edition of 60, printed by Atelier Georges Leblanc, Paris, published by Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 25.2 x 19.2 cm. (9.9 x 7.6 in.)
Various Artists with George Brecht...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Etching
Reginald and Perrin 2
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Reginald and Perrin 22
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Reginald and Perrin 24
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Reginald and Perrin 26
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Weather Project, Evening of the Sandstorm
Located in Natchez, MS
This stunning work by Louise Feneley is somehow both abstract and figurative. Is it a pearl or a glowing ball of light? It's hard to tell. The light, co...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Art Against AIDS
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant cont...
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Screen
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