2. 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)

3. 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

4. When was the movement
taking place?
 middle 1960s and the early 1970;s

5. 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?”

6. Was it a reaction against
anything?
 Reaction against the increasingly commercialized art
world
 No traditional art objects

7. 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

8. 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

9. Damien Hirst
 English artist
 Death is a central theme in his works

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

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

12. Tracy Emin
Style:
Autobiographical
Confessional
 English artist born in 1963
 Shestudied art in Maidstone, then returned to
London to study painting at the Royal College of Art.

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

14. Everyone
I Have
Ever
Slept With
1963–
1995 by
Tracey

15. Joseph Kosuth
 American conceptual artist
 Born January 31, 1945
 More language based art
work

16. Joseph Kosuth, One and Three chairs, 1965.

17. Connection

18. 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

19. Bibliography
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