She auto
defines herself as a conceptual artist: «I don't paint, I don't take photographs, I don't handle the camera or edit.
LeWitt was, therefore, categorically
defined as a Conceptual artist.
It should come as no surprise, then, that I became interested in what is now termed historical Conceptual Art, which is to say work by artists who
defined themselves as conceptual artists in the late «60s and early «70s.
Not exact matches
As defined by Tony Godfrey in Conceptual Art, appropriation in art is «the act of one artist assuming the work of another artist and claiming it as their ow
As defined by Tony Godfrey in
Conceptual Art, appropriation in art is «the act of one
artist assuming the work of another
artist and claiming it
as their ow
as their own.
Guest - curated by former Blanton curator Gabriel Pérez - Barreiro and jointly organized with the Fundação Iberê Camargo (Porto Alegre, Brazil), this retrospective aims to make the Brazilian
conceptual artist, who
defines his practice
as sculpting the distance between objects in pursuit of «maximally present work through minimal action,» better known in the United States.
Seeking to
define African American art practice
as more than theater or folk art, Cassel Oliver has opted to locate recent art by black
artists within a
conceptual framework.
Unlike Duchamp and
conceptual artists who depended on theoretical concepts to
define their artworks, Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists (often abbreviated
as AbEx) considered painting an action, not an object.
What can be
defined as conceptual art at its best, the
artist's often times participatory and always haunting works once again caught the New York audience with surprise and contemplation.
Indeed, while we tend to think of
conceptual art
as belonging very much to now, this challenging exhibition views it
as a tightly
defined historical phenomenon, whose heyday was 40 years and more ago, a period during which, the show claims, British
artists changed the very nature of art.
A
defining characteristic of Hoffmann's work is his conception of an authorial role for the curator,
as well
as applying the ideas and strategies of
artists (in particular
Conceptual art) to his curatorial efforts.
Contrary to contemporary postmodern
artists utilizing Letterform in art for mostly
conceptual purposes, or Concrete Poetry that involves a form of Visual Poetry, Concrete Alphabets acts
as hybrid where each
artist defines his own work based upon unique personal narratives involving aspects of Letterform / Alphabets An important aspect of this shared perspective is how each
artist has maintained and utilizes analog painting
as a medium, thus allowing them to keep their own signature mark making prevalent in the artwork.
The most significant of the often loosely
defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts,
as in the work of such figures
as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of
artists such
as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of
conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by
artists such
as Robert Smithson.
Thus, in describing or
defining a work of art
as conceptual it is important not to confuse what is referred to
as «
conceptual» with an
artist's «intention.»
Contrary to contemporary postmodern
artists utilizing Letterform in art for mostly
conceptual purposes, or Concrete Poetry that involves a form of Visual Poetry, Concrete Alphabets acts
as hybrid where each
artist defines his own work based upon unique personal narratives involving aspects of Letterform / Alphabets
One might be excused for believing it if «
conceptual art» is
defined by the overwhelmingly white and male canon of American
artists lionized by institutions such
as MoMA over the past several decades.
For
Conceptual artists, Duchamp proved that art is not
defined by the qualities of particular objects, but by the discourse surrounding them
as works of art — discourse generated by
artists, critics, and art historians, and by museums, galleries, and art publications.