conceptual art
Art prioritizing thoughts
Conceptual art is art in which the idea or concept behind the work matters more than the finished object itself.
The movement emerged in the 1960s as a challenge to traditional notions of craftsmanship and aesthetics.
A conceptual artwork might be instructions, documentation, or text rather than a painting or sculpture: The piece consisted entirely of a typed description of an imaginary room.
Aesthetic of reduction
- dadaInfant's word for father
- dematerializationLoss of physical substance
- readymadesMass-produced garments for purchase
- happeningsThings that take place
Study of fundamental truths
- semioticsStudy of signs, symbols
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
hermeneutics · aesthetics · discourse · postmodernism · deconstruction · cognition · theory · critique
Process of putting in
- performanceCarrying out a task
- video artMoving-image creative medium
- sound artArt using acoustic phenomena
- digital artComputer-generated visual work
new media · site-specific · participatory · interactive · ephemeral · documentation · found object · intervention
Seeking to undermine authority
- controversialCausing public dispute
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
- iconoclasticAttacking cherished beliefs
- confrontationalInclined toward hostile encounters
challenging · thought-provoking · satirical · critical · questioning · irreverent · disruptive · taboo
minimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
- dadaInfant's word for father
- dematerializationLoss of physical substance
- readymadesMass-produced garments for purchase
happenings · land art · mail art · text art · anti-art
philosophy
Study of fundamental truths
- semioticsStudy of signs, symbols
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
phenomenology · hermeneutics · aesthetics · discourse · postmodernism · deconstruction · cognition · theory · critique · meaning
installation
Process of putting in
- performanceCarrying out a task
- video artMoving-image creative medium
- sound artArt using acoustic phenomena
digital art · new media · site-specific · participatory · interactive · ephemeral · documentation · found object · intervention · time-based
Duchamp
subversive
Seeking to undermine authority
- controversialCausing public dispute
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
- iconoclasticAttacking cherished beliefs
confrontational · challenging · thought-provoking · satirical · critical · questioning · irreverent · disruptive · taboo · shocking
- art termspainting, sculpture, drawing, portrait, landscape
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- art formspainting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music
- artsartist, creativity, expression, songs, painting
- creative artsvisual art, drawing, painting, abstract art, illustration
- fine artsfine art, fine arts, painting, visual arts, sculpture
conceptual artphotorealism
Art imitating camera accuracy
hyperrealism · trompe-l'oeil · artisanship · decorative arts · applied arts
conceptual artsculpture
Shaped three-dimensional art
bronze casting · marble sculpture · oil painting · fresco · mosaic
conceptual artrealism
Accepting things as they are
naturalism · figurative art · photorealism · portraiture · landscape painting
concept, conception, misconception, conceptual, preconception, conceptualize, conceptions, conceptually, conceptualized