Conceptual art

Concept art is an artistic style that was shaped by the US artist Sol Lewitt in the 1960s (Conceptual Art) and whose origins are in a minimal way. In this section of the Kunstplaza Magazine you will find numerous contributions, reports and information on this topic.

Bruce Nauman, 1985 (Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom), assembled on an aluminum monolith.

Bruce Nauman - famous representative of concept art

4 years ago

Many of the artists who are among the best known and successful today are concept artists. They also include Bruce Nauman, who ...

Christopher Williams: A look at our beautiful, beautiful world

4 years ago

Christopher Williams is an American concept artist who has made a name for himself as a photographer of our "beautiful modern life". With the…

Poison Horse by Hans Haacke, Trafalgar Square, London

Hans Haacke: A look at political art at its finest

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Hans Haacke was born in Cologne in 1936 and partly lives there, but since 1962 he has also ...

Valie Export, Austrian Film Award 2013 in the ballroom of the town hall in Vienna.

Valie Export: A look at unexpected variety of art

4 years ago

Valie Export: A quiet star in the art world? Valie Export is very important, if only because her artist name too ...

Marina Abramović - The Artist is Present - Viennale 2012

Marina Abramovic or the artist and his story

4 years ago

The artist Marina Abramovic and her place in the art world Marina Abramović is a Serbian citizen, her life and her work ...

Marcel Duchamp: Ready to Make Art

4 years ago

Marcel Duchamp had been born into an art -loving family who certainly already in the early youth with all possible forms of expression ...

Bruce Nauman: Truncated Pyramid Room (1982-1998)

Art-O-Gram: concept artist and the importance of concept art

4 years ago

The term concept art appears wherever art is about and quite a few of the best -known artists of our time are ...

Peter Fischli and David Weiss: One Rock on Top of Another Rock (2013)

The Swiss Fischli & Weiss and their quiet conquest of the art world

5 years ago

Since the Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss found the artist duo Fischli & Weiss in 1979, this ...

Ai white before his installation "Template" on Documenta 12 in June 2007

Ai Weiwei and "The Fake Case"

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The title of this article is ambiguous - it's about a film by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, and about "The ...

Ai Weiwei - art and riot of an indomitable

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Who is Ai Weiwei? Ai Weiwei is the most famous artist of China, even if or precisely because he doesn't go to ...

John Baldessari - biography

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John Baldessari belongs to the most famous artist of the present, and for almost 50 years, for every art connoisseur he is ...

Paul McCarthy - Santa Claus with Buttplug

Paul McCarthy - the artist who even brought Santa Claus on sponge thoughts

5 years ago

The story with Santa Claus is told right away, but it should be made clear here immediately that Paul McCarthy not only Santa Clauses ...

Concept art for the home

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Concept art for the home is actually inconceivable in terms of definition. Because concept art is actually an art form in which ...

John Baldessari - create and work

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John Baldessari - he is one of our most influential artists ever, and that since the late 1960s. Maybe ...

Sol Lewitt: Unstoppable career through art with a logical structure

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Sol Lewitt dealt with art as a teenager under expert guidance, he studied art from 1945, several years ...

Conceptual art

Concept art is an artistic style was shaped Sol Lewitt in the 1960s

The origins of concept art are in minimalism (English: minimal art), and with it the theories and tendencies of abstract painting further developed.

What is special about this style is the fact that the execution of the work of art is of minor importance and does not have to be carried out by the artist himself. The focus is on the concept and idea that are considered equivalent to artistic work.

In this section of the art blog you will find numerous contributions and content on this topic complex as well as representatives, exhibitions and trends.