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is an art form in which the artist's intent is to convey an idea rather than to create an art object. “a choice of mind

Conceptual Art. is an art form in which the artist's intent is to convey an idea rather than to create an art object. “a choice of mind rather than of hand”. The ideas themselves take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.”

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is an art form in which the artist's intent is to convey an idea rather than to create an art object. “a choice of mind

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  1. Conceptual Art is an art form in which the artist's intent is to convey an idea rather than to create an art object. “a choice of mind rather than of hand”. The ideas themselves take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.” Mid-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. (1) "Creativity isn't the monopoly of artists.“ Joseph Beuys(2) "Actual works of art are little more than historical curiosities.” Joseph Kosuth (3)

  2. Few artistic movements are surrounded by so much debate and controversy as conceptual art. For conceptual art has a tendency to provoke intense and perhaps even extreme reactions in its audiences. After all, whilst some people find conceptual art very refreshing and the only kind of art that is relevant to today's world, many others consider it shocking, distasteful, skill-less, downright bad, or, and most importantly, not art at all. Conceptual art, it seems, is something that we either love or hate (4). Yoko Ono, 'Painting to Hammer a Nail', 1966

  3. What prompted the conceptual art movement? The movement also was in reaction to what many artists considered the overcommercialization of art objects in the moneyed world of art galleries and museums.(5) L.H.O.O.Q., a cheap postcard-sized reproduction of the Mona Lisa,upon which Duchamp drew a mustache and a goatee. The "readymade" done in 1919, is one of the most well known act of degrading a famous work of art. The title when pronounced in French, puns the frase "Elle a chaud au cul", translating colloquially in "She has a hot ass". (6)

  4. Where did it start? • As the father of Dadaism, Marcel Duchamp is considered the grandfather of Conceptual Art. Marcel Duchamp, revolutionized twentieth-century art by presenting everyday, unadulterated objects in museum settings as finished works of art, which were called “found art,” or ready-mades by later scholars.(6) Bicyclewheel 1913 Fountain 1917

  5. 4 Identical Boxes with Lids Reversed  1969Michael Craig-MartinPlywood painted with non-slip deck paintobject: 610 x 2438 x 914 mm sculpture According to Michael Craig-Martin, the very ordinariness of these simple grey boxes is intended to allow the viewer to focus on ''the idea embodied in the piece''. The work is an exploration of what happens to four identical structures when a logical mathematical progression is applied to them. The lids were created by cutting away the top surface of the boxes in a sequence of 6, 12, 18 and 24 inch intervals. The artist then reversed the order of the lids, placing the first lid on the fourth box, and so on. ''With the lids reversed, the boxes are always both visually and factually unique. However, taken as a whole, the piece is still essentially 4 identical boxes,'' he has commented.

  6. Performance (or Action) Art Gilbert & George. They've been around for decades, producing works in their unique style -- huge brightly-coloured photo-based collage-pictures on a black grid -- which has become their well-known visual signature. Over the years they have developed new ways of showing taboo-grating images of the social world and, most notably, bodily fluids and waste. At the heart of most Gilbert & George works we see the artists themselves: a model relationship of equals, as they say themselves, always harmonious, acting as one to produce their art. fromStudies for Holograms Bruce Newman 1970 “I was very interested in that: if you perform a bunch of arbitrary operations, some people will make very strong connections with them and others won't” Life by Gilbert and George part of Death Hope Life Fear series -1984

  7. Land Art Spiral Jetty (1970) is located on the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Robert Smithson is a legendary artist because he expanded the location of art to be possible far outside the traditional art museum and gallery, even outside the city and public urban arena A Line Made by Walking Richard Long 1967 This formative piece was made on one of Long’s journeys to St Martin’s from his home in Bristol. Between hitchhiking lifts, he stopped in a field in Wiltshire where he walked backwards and forwards until the flattened turf caught the sunlight and became visible as a line. He photographed this work, and recorded his physical interventions within the landscape.

  8. Arte Povera (poor art) Arte Povera Italian for "Poor Art", the term Arte Povera was formidable in the 1960's and 1970's, and is a label for a small group of artists who were experimenting with nontraditional and politically charged art. "These artists created and explored modes of expression such as ephemeral art, performance art, installation art and assemblage. These techniques have since become extremely common tools in contemporary art; in fact this is one of the reasons that such a small and short-lived movement continues to have such relevance today." - Artcyclopedia Untitled  1968Jannis KounellisWood and wool displayed: 2500 x 2810 x 450 mm Mario Merz 1952 The carefully dyed but loosely wrapped hanks of uncarded wool epitomise Kounellis’s choice of simple materials at this time. Linked with Arte Povera’s exploration of basic media, they also suggest Kounellis’s attraction to earlier civilisations.

  9. Earlier artists include: Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) Yves Klein (1928-1962) Robert SmithsonEnvironmental Artist (1938-1973) Yoko Ono(1933 - ) Joseph Kosuth (1945 -) Michael Craig-Martin(1941-) Bruce Nauman Performance artist (1941-) Richard Long land art (1945-) Gilbert and George –Performance artists Their partnership started in 1967 at Central St. Martin’s Colle Yves Klein : Globe terrestre bleu 1962

  10. German artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was a charismatic--if controversial--persona related to the movement. The whole body of Beuys's project is to suggest transformation, to show the way, to set an example. The "actions," or performances he staged, were rituals to induce new ways of perceiving and to heighten appreciation of the everyday objects involved. 'The Pack', Installation 1969 Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, Performance Art 1965, Dusseldorf.

  11. Robert Rauschenberg: 1925-2008 As the name suggests, the Combines are hybrid works that associate painting with collage and assemblage of a wide range of objects taken from everyday life. Neither paintings nor sculptures, but both at once, Rauschenberg’s Combines invade the viewers’ space, demanding their attention, like veritable visual puzzles. From stuffed birds to Coca-Cola bottles, from newspaper to press photos, fabric, wallpaper, doors and windows, it is as though the whole universe enters into his combinatorial process to join forces with paint.(9) Monogram, 1955-59Freestanding combineOil, printed paper, printed reproductions, metal, wood, rubber heel and tennis ball on canvas, with oil on angora goat and tyre on wooden base mounted on four casters, 106.6 x 160.6 x 163.8 cm

  12. Yoko Ono is an artist whose work spans a whole range of media from music, film and writing to performance, painting, installation and sculpture. A key figure in the New York conceptual art movement of the sixties, she has continued to explore ideas-based work dealing with issues of participation, communication, philosophy, and sexual politics. The exhibition title, YES YOKO ONO, refers to the interactive installation known as Ceiling Painting, an important work shown at Ono’s historic 1966 Indica Gallery show in London. The viewer is invited to climb a white ladder, at the top of which a magnifying glass, attached by a chain, hangs from a frame on the ceiling. The viewer uses the reading glass to discover a block-letter “instruction” beneath the framed sheet of glass — it says “Y E S.” It was through this work that Ono met her future husband and longtime collaborator, John Lennon. Annie Leibovitz photograph John Lennon and Yoko Ono 1980

  13. Joseph Kosuth An American artist figured heavily in Conceptual Art during the early 1970's in the US. But this movement is more important for the dialogue it introduced rather than for any individual practitioner. Kosuth's work has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art. His nearly forty year inquiry into the relation of language to art has taken the form of installations, museum exhibitions, public commissions and publications throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965Wood folding chair, mounted photograph of a chair, and photographic enlargement of a dictionary definition of "chair", Like many conceptual works, this is concerned with different modes of representation. It is thus an examination of a fundamental aspect of art. It brings together a real object with representations of different aspects of that object.

  14. Modern conceptual artists: Damien Hirst – (1965-) Chuck Close – (1940 -) Brett Whiteley (1939 -1992) Patricia Piccinini, Nalini Malani (India), Mariko Mori (Japan) Shirin Neshat (Iran), Ann Zahalka, Destiny Deacon Cindy Sherman Tracey Moffatt Julie Rrap Rose and George Parkin Guan Wei Lin Onus, Mali Wu Tracey Emin Artist Done for You Artists for you to present

  15. What is the legacy of Conceptual Art? Conceptual Art opened the way for installation, digital and performance art--for art as experience as well as object. But it also influenced a younger generation of more conventionally-based artists. A work such as Jeff Koons' floral Puppy which is constructed, flourishes then vanishes owes much to the ideas aired in Conceptual Art. Jeff Koons's Puppy was exhibited in the U.S. for the first time at New York City's Rockefeller Center. Rising 43 feet from its paws to its ears, the sculpture was formed from a series of stainless steel armatures constructed to hold over 25 tons of soil watered by an internal irrigation system. Over 70,000 multi-hued flowering plants grew from this steel and soil structure, including Marigolds, Begonias, Impatiens, Petunias, and Lobelias. First created in 1992 for a temporary exhibition in the German city of Arolson, Puppy--a symbol, according to Koons, of "love, warmth and happiness"--was a contemporary artwork that captured Koons's sculptural imagination, horticultural dexterity, and engineering skill. (3)

  16. The Shock of the New • http://the-artists.org/artistbymovement/Installation%20art • http://www.biddingtons.com/content/pedigreeconceptual.html • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conceptual-art/#ConArtWhaIt • http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/prompted-conceptual-art-movement-134818.html • http://www.marcelduchamp.net/L.H.O.O.Q.php • http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=73 • http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/00/koons_j_00.html • www.pompidoucenter.fr/education/ressources

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