He rejects conceptual art as the sole claimant of «ideas» and champions the decorative and intimate qualities of handmade objects with stories to tell.
Rather than
rejecting Conceptual Art, or retreating to an earlier mode of painting, as exemplified by Marsden Hartley or Arthur Dove, these abstract painters found ways to adapt and transform LeWitt's sentences into something they could use in painting, whether it meant following a process all the way through or bringing in personal experience from an unexpected or unlikely source.
Not exact matches
I suppose the other is
conceptual art: I rather
reject the notion of
conceptual art as a separate category of work, because I think all great
art has a
conceptual underpinning.
Minimalism also fought Greenberg's orthodoxy at the same time as
conceptual art — by
rejecting the Modernist idea of painting and instead working with industrial materials — but contained the dialogue within the gallery system.
But cultural changes, new technologies, and the rise of
Conceptual art compelled many artists to revise or
reject these conventions.
Bad Painting
rejected «good taste» as well as the spurious intellectualism of
Conceptual art, and its works reflected the disturbing and violent nature of contemporary American society.
One reason is that
conceptual art initially
rejected the aesthetics of
art objects, along with their bondage to the gallery system and their very materiality.
He
rejects the term «
conceptual» and calls himself an «expressionist,» referring to his notion that all
art stems from feeling.
Linking the idea of the readymade put forward by the famous Dada artist Marcel Duchamp,
conceptual artists
rejected the notion of the beautiful, rare and skillful as measures of
art.