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
FORT DE SOTO WAVES #36, St Petersburg, Florida 2013
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This large format, color-photograph belongs to Jay Mark Johnson's wave series - the images from which depict the rhythmic cycling and recycling of oceanfront waves as recorded on remote coastlines around the world--in Hawaii, Florida, California, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa.
These artworks belong to the artist’s ongoing inquiry into the possibilities for timeline photography. For this decades-long project Johnson employs an unconventional camera system to produce seamless delineated renderings of familiar events as they occur over time. The results present an altered view of our surroundings.
Artworks from Johnson’s timeline series have been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. They can be found in the permanent collections of the Bundestag (German Parliament) in Berlin, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie at Karlsruhe, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Langen Foundation, Hombroich, Germany, the Peter Klein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Aluminum
De la serie aglomeraciones _05
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
De la serie aglomeraciones
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
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
De la serie aglomeraciones _04
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
El ser DO- RE- MI– DO
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, Wood, Magazine Paper, Clay
¿Por qué me llaman artista?
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed #ambar
JUANA MARTÍNEZ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Stone
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
Onda energética de siete colores
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed
JUANA MARTÍNEZ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Stone
¿Qué hay más allá de la materia?
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone
JUANA MARTÍNEZ
(Tlalpujajua, Mic...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Stone
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
La música de los canes I
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#fantastic #zoology #texture #piano #keya #sound #music #color #dog #animal
miguel villafuerte (Quito 1991) graphic designer and visual artist, litirature, editorial.
the work as...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Wood, Oil, Acrylic
Into the whale
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#fantastic #zoology #texture #eye #paper, #color, #hole and #eye, into the #whale, from film Into The Woods,
miguel villafuerte (Quito 1991) graphic designer and visual artist, lit...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Wood, Oil, Acrylic
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
Sin título, rhythm, pins,
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
Arrítmico
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
Sin título, rhythm, pins,
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
$6,000
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
Bicromo blando blanco y negro en diagonal
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Nicaragua, " from the series "We are the Kings and Queens of Narnia"
Located in New York, NY
From the series "We are the Kings and Queens of Narnia." This is a series of photographs about Bezzubov's family's somewhat unconventional way of traveling around the world - by wal...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print
What Ecstatic Danger
By Alex Gingrow
Located in New York, NY
graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist
Alex Gingrow creates text-based paintings and drawings that are at turns witty, sardonic, poetic, self-deprecat...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Graphite
Still Pretty Though
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: still pretty though, painted in stark capital letters faded into the backgroun...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Graphite
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
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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
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
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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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
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Nova
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 25 years, they made a significant contribution to po...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Graphite
$7,000
Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-437 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-437
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 11,8 x 20,4 cm (4 5/8 x 8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, prac...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-11 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-11
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 22,9 x 17,1 cm (9 x 6 3/4 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, pract...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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, MT Inv. No 3-8-185 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-185
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 14,9 x 10,4 cm (5 7/8 x 4 1/8 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, MT Inv. No 10-1-96 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-96
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 17,9 x 11,2 cm (7 x 4 3/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, prac...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
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Metal
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered witha work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Eva al desnudo
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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1970s Conceptual Art
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Acrylic
Niño a caballo
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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1980s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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1970s Conceptual Art
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Ink, Mixed Media
Humanoids
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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1980s Conceptual Art
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Paper, Screen
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Wax Crayon
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Aguas Serenas
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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1970s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Translucent
Located in New York, NY
Mysterious woman. Oil on canvas. Fab wallpaper background.
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
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
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
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
Emergency Broadcast
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
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