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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
Untitled

Untitled

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Engraving

Car Festival at Puri India original vintagea travel poster
Car Festival at Puri India original vintagea travel poster

Car Festival at Puri India original vintagea travel poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original vintage travel poster Car Festival at Puri India. Archival linen-backed lithograph in fine condition, ready to frame. At this festival, the public gathers and pull a chari...

Category

1950s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Set of Three Framed Singapore Stamp Collection, Orchid Floral Color Photograph
Set of Three Framed Singapore Stamp Collection, Orchid Floral Color Photograph

Set of Three Framed Singapore Stamp Collection, Orchid Floral Color Photograph

By Heidler & Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

30 Cents Singapore Orchid, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. These historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards fro...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Flora 35, 2015 - Limited Edition Photographic Color Print, Still Life Photograph

Flora 35, 2015 - Limited Edition Photographic Color Print, Still Life Photograph

By Marisa Culatto

Located in Brighton, GB

Flora 35, 2015 by Marisa Culatto Flora 35 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Edition of 6. Culatto's new series 'Flora...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée

Found Object Wall Sculpture/Relief by Gertie Lowe
Found Object Wall Sculpture/Relief by Gertie Lowe

Found Object Wall Sculpture/Relief by Gertie Lowe

By Gertie Lowe

Located in Long Island City, NY

Wall sculpture assemblage by Gertie Lowe, from 1978, is a conceptual abstract with everyday objects. Muted neutral tones are contrasted with vibrant accents. Signed and dated verso...

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Plastic, Wood

Forever Young Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century
Forever Young Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century

Forever Young Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century

By Taiwo Odejinmi

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Sing Me A Song

Sing Me A Song

By Cabell Molina

Located in New York, NY

Image of woman empowered. Bright colors. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved herself exce...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

You Are Enough

You Are Enough

By Cabell Molina

Located in New York, NY

Mixed Media. Round piece. Female centric. Birds as accents. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Prince - 3D

Prince - 3D

By Reisig and Taylor

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

Stahl - 3D

Stahl - 3D

By Reisig and Taylor

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...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lenticular

Contemporary blue painting on paper, Seascape, Abstract Seaweeds
Contemporary blue painting on paper, Seascape, Abstract Seaweeds

Contemporary blue painting on paper, Seascape, Abstract Seaweeds

By TUSET

Located in Carballo, ES

This is an original artwork unframed realized by TUSET in 2020. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm Original and unique piece 1/1. Includes ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

A Cut Above

A Cut Above

By Cabell Molina

Located in New York, NY

Mixed Media. Female centric. Featuring Madonna. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved hers...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Resist

Resist

By Cabell Molina

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

Wonderful World

Wonderful World

By Cabell Molina

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

Sign Of The Time - large scale photograph of conceptual motivational billboard
Sign Of The Time - large scale photograph of conceptual motivational billboard

Sign Of The Time - large scale photograph of conceptual motivational billboard

By Frank Schott

Located in San Francisco, CA

Large format photograph of a billboard signage in California desert landscape, from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana roadside signs and billboards cap...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Crimson Contemplation - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Crimson Contemplation - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

By John Ali

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 (Issued by the Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

URBAN MUSTANG
URBAN MUSTANG

URBAN MUSTANG

By Donna Bernstein

Located in New York, NY

The American mustang. Revered for his freedom, yet never truly free. Cast in a red glow of pain, his spirit is never taken, as his numbers are cut down. Created in acrylics, life-...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Ascending Joy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl

Ascending Joy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl

By John Ali

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 (Issued by the Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Verso sera" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 39x31cm
"Verso sera" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 39x31cm

"Verso sera" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 39x31cm

By Corrado Ferrante

Located in Milano, MI

In the compositions, the gaze is attracted by an interplay of harmonious balances between full and empty spaces, which compel the regarding to an observation dynamic approach in orde...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board, Paper, Wood Panel

Vibrant Heritage - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Vibrant Heritage - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

By John Ali

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 (Issued by the Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Quiet Matriarch - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

Quiet Matriarch - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa

By John Ali

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 (Issued by the Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Duke Humfrey's Library I, Oxford, England
Duke Humfrey's Library I, Oxford, England

Duke Humfrey's Library I, Oxford, England

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Duke Humfrey's Library I 54.2 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 65.1 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 75.9 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimme...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

"Argentina", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, Signed, 1985
"Argentina", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, Signed, 1985

"Argentina", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, Signed, 1985

Located in Astoria, NY

Roni Nicholson (American, XX), "Argentina", Mixed Media on Linen with Assemblage Elements, 1985, signed, titled, dated, and inscribed "Red painting with child's black shirt" verso, u...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Textile, Linen, Found Objects, Oil

Garment of Hope Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century
Garment of Hope Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century

Garment of Hope Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century

By John Ali

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

"Garment of Hope," a poignant masterpiece crafted by the skilled hands of artist John Ali, invites viewers into a world where innocence and resilience converge. This evocative artwor...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Limited Edition Japanese Photography, #189 Yunotani Village, Nigata Prefecture
Limited Edition Japanese Photography, #189 Yunotani Village, Nigata Prefecture

Limited Edition Japanese Photography, #189 Yunotani Village, Nigata Prefecture

By Toshio Shibata

Located in New york, NY

The photograph Toshio Shibata, #189 Yunotani Village, Nigata Prefecture, 1989 by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is signed (on recto) by the photographer. The 13" x 19" print is numbered on recto (front of photo). Available: 87/100; 52/100. Printed in 2005, the photograph is from a portfolio of masters of Japanese photography...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Pigment, Arc...

Mail Art Correspondence Art Pioneer Two Envelops and Collage Signed
Mail Art Correspondence Art Pioneer Two Envelops and Collage Signed

Mail Art Correspondence Art Pioneer Two Envelops and Collage Signed

By Ray Johnson

Located in Miami, FL

Ray Johnson, 1964. Mail art assemblage collage titled "Ed Brush," composed of cut paper stamped " Ed Brush Collage by Ray Johnson " with a paper cutout, and two mailed covers addressed by Johnson to Ed Brush- one c/o Ray Johnson and one c/o Stanton Kreider- postmarked October 20, 1964, and November 19, 1964, respectively. Mounted on board covered with fabric, board measures 13 x 11 in. Not framed. Signed on Envelopes, Stamped Collage by Ray Johnson Bio from Wikipedia: Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995) was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as "New York's most famous unknown artist".[1][3] Johnson also staged and participated in early performance art events as the founder of a far-ranging mail art network – the New York Correspondence School –which picked up momentum in the 1960s and is still active today. He is occasionally associated with members of the Fluxus movement but was never a member. He lived in New York City from 1949 to 1968, when he moved to a small town in Long Island and remained there until his suicide. Early years and education Born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 16, 1927,Ray Johnson grew up in a working-class neighborhood and attended Cass Technical High School where he was enrolled in the advertising art program. He took weekly classes at the Detroit Art Institute and spent a summer drawing at Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan, affiliated with the Art Institute of Chicago. Johnson left Detroit after high school in the summer of 1945 to attend the progressive Black Mountain College (BMC) in North Carolina,[4][6] where he stayed for the next three years (spending the spring 1946 semester at the Art Students League in New York but returning the following summer). Josef Albers, before and after his notable sabbatical in Mexico, was in residence at Black Mountain College for six of the ten semesters that Johnson studied there. Anni Albers, Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Robert Motherwell, Ossip Zadkine, Paul Rand, Alvin Lustig, Ilya Bolotowsky, Jacob Lawrence, Beaumont Newhall, M. C. Richards, and Jean Varda also taught at BMC during Johnson's time there. Johnson decided on Albers' advice to stay at BMC for a final term in summer 1948, when the visiting faculty included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, and Richard Lippold.[1] Johnson took part in "The Ruse of Medusa" – the culmination of Cunningham's Satie Festival - with Cage, Cunningham, Fuller, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Lippold, Ruth Asawa, Arthur Penn, and others among the cast and crew. "Because of those who participated, the event has taken on the reputation of a watershed event in 'mixed media'" wrote Martin Duberman in his history of BMC. In the documentary How to Draw a Bunny, Richard Lippold confessed to carrying on a love affair with Johnson for several years. I risk to say, [that at Black Mountain College] 'anything went'—between the students and the faculty ... he would arrive every morning with a little bouquet of wild flowers, and singing. Eventually our relationship became very intimate, so I brought him back to New York ... and obviously, we didn't live together, steadily, because I had my family. We were quite close together until 1974, so that's a long period of time. From '48 to '74, twenty some years. Because it was a very intimate relationship, a loving relationship.[8] New York years Johnson moved with Richard Lippold to New York City by early 1949, rejoining Cage and Cunningham and befriending, within the next couple of years, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Ad Reinhardt, Stan Vanderbeek, Norman Solomon, Lucy Lippard, Sonia Sekula, Carolyn Brown and Earle Brown, Judith Malina, Diane di Prima, Julian Beck...

Category

1960s Conceptual Art

Materials

Fabric, Paper, Ink, Masonite

Katherine Jackson, Little Oil 19, 2020, Photograph on aluminum

Katherine Jackson, Little Oil 19, 2020, Photograph on aluminum

By Katherine Jackson

Located in Darien, CT

There are two Little Oil installations available with 6 sculptures each on top of LED light boxes. Little Oil 19 is a digital photographic print on aluminum for the flat files. Katherine Jackson has been working with glass and light together for many years, Recently, she's been making glass castings of vintage oil cans, and displaying them -- singly, in small groupings, or in vitrines -- on light boxes. So far she has created about 90, each one unique. The series is called Little Oil, alluding to Big Oil, and sometimes Small Oils, as in oil painting. But “oil” can mean many things. It has been a source of light (sometimes from unconscionable sources) since ancient times as well as a source of eternal light in many faith traditions. Set atop lightboxes, where each work glows from within, these pieces can simply seem like vessels of light itself. At times, they appear to me to transcend their relation to oil altogether, appearing anthropomorphic or creaturely, even biological. These days, I think of them as archeological artifacts, relics of a past, oil-based, civilization. Necropolis is a print of a painting inspired by a map of the necropolis where the terra cotta soldiers...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Glass, LED Light, Pigment

All in My Head - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Men, Love, Thoughts
All in My Head - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Men, Love, Thoughts

All in My Head - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Men, Love, Thoughts

By Michael Adetula

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

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.