One and Three Chairs
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Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions.[1] This method was fundamental to Lewitt's definition of Conceptual art, the first to appear in print:
- "In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art." – Sol LeWitt, "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art", Artforum, June 1967.
For the layman, this quotation highlights a key difference between a conceptualist installation and a traditional work of art - that the conceptualist's work may require little or no physical craftsmanship in its execution, whereas traditional art is distinguished by requiring physical skill and the making of aesthetic choices.
The inception of the term in the 1960s referred to a strict and focused practice of idea-based art. Through its association with the Young British Artists and the Turner Prize during the 1990s, its popular usage, particularly in the UK, developed as as synonym for all contemporary art that does not practise the traditional skills of painting and sculpture.
See also
- Anti-anti-art
- Contemporary art
- Danger music
- Postmodern art
- Found art
- Installation art
- Modern art
- Video art
- Visual arts
- Classificatory disputes about art
- Net art
- Information art
- Conceptual architecture
- Neo-conceptual art
- Moscow Conceptualists
- Gutai group
- Systems art
- Experiments in Art and Technology
- Something Else Press
- Intermedia
- Romantic conceptualism
Individual works
- Fountain
- The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even
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