Conceptual Art

Beyza Celebi

What is Conceptual Art?

Art that is intended to convey an idea or concept to the perceiver and need not involve the creation or appreciation of a traditional art object such as a painting or sculpture. (Dictionary)

But… what does that really mean?

Ideas are more important then the finished work

Art of ideas

Uses images and objects to make the viewer think, and to think particularly about what art is and what it means

Rejected the idea of “art should be beautiful”

Rejects conventional painting and sculpture

When was the movement taking

place? middle 1960s and the early 1970;s

What led up to this movement? Who

influenced it?

Influenced by Marcel Duchamp with his ready mades

Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni “what is art?”

Was it a reaction against anything?

Reaction against the increasingly commercialized art world

No traditional art objects

Style

No particular style

Conceptualism could take the form of tendencies such as happenings, performance art, installation, body art, and earth art

Photography gained interest

Key Ideas

Art is essentially conceptual

Reduce the material to absolute minimum

Influenced by the simplicity of minimalism

The gallery/museum or the audience complete the art work somehow

Self-conscious

Damien Hirst

English artist

Death is a central theme in his works

Spot Paintings, Household gloss on canvas84 x 84 inches  (213.4 x 213.4 cm)Damien Hirst, 2005.

Damiel Hirst, Pharmacy, 1992, Glass, faced particleboard, painted MDF, beech, ramin, wooden dowels, aluminium, pharmaceutical packaging, desks, office.

Tracy Emin

English artist born in 1963

Shestudied art in Maidstone, then returned to London to study painting at the Royal College of Art.

Style: AutobiographicalConfessional

Tracey Emin, My Bed (c. 1999) Installation.

Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 by Tracey Emin (1995).

Joseph Kosuth

American conceptual artist

Born January 31, 1945

More language based art

work

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three chairs, 1965.

Connection

What do I think?

Making other people do the art work, may be unfair

Art can be ideas

It is nice that ideas are important – more creative

Viewers interaction to ideas

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