What is conceptual art?
Conceptual
art is related mainly to the ideas which an artist has in his mind. It gives
importance to the concepts and images present in an artist’s mind. It is also
called Conceptualism. Conceptual art takes forward
the idea and planning of producing an art work. In it real artistic skill is
given secondary importance.
Background of Conceptual art
Conceptual art was
basically an art movement which came forward in mid 1960s and reached to full
prominence till mid 1970s. In 1961, Henry Flynt was first to use ‘Conceptual art ‘ as a term. Most
prominent artists of this artistic movement were Demien Hirst, Robert Montgomery,
Joseph Kosuth, Katrin Fridriks, Claude Rutault. This art found its true essence
from the definition of an American artist Sol LeWitt, who gave a
comprehensive explanation for conceptual art. It was
against formalism. Conceptual art favors dematerialization of art and gives the
view that need for artistic objects must be reduced to minimum level.
Significance should be given to the ideas which lie behind production of an
art.
Conceptualized art paintings
Conceptual art paintings do not need
to be painted only on some material that could be hanged on walls. According to
conceptual art there are so many ideas that are not painted on canvas, these
ideas are not sketched due to confusion of appropriate material. All these
ideas are better to sketch without having any confusion about any specific
material.
Contemporary
Conceptualized Paintings
Conceptualized
contemporary paintings are digitized. Abstract style
of Modern Painting is
prominent in it. Debra Ramsay is a prominent
contemporary conceptual painter. She works on changing colors of nature. She
processes these colors through digital apps. Her process of producing a
painting gives promotion to the idea that nature is under process all the time.
Some of the important contemporary conceptual painters are John Monteith,
Fieroza Doorsen, Sara Hinckley.
Conceptualized paintings produce unbound
creativity
Conceptualized
contemporary paintings are appreciated for their unbound creativity. These
paintings are referred
to as unbound creativity because they do not offer
any boundaries for creation of art.
Most important is idea not the manner of
expression
Conceptualized paintings
are all about ideas. It does not matter which manner is used to express these
ideas. Any style of painting can be used to give these ideas an appropriate
form. A conceptual painter can use oil paints, water colors, wax colors,
digital apps and so on.
Material is at secondary place
Most important thing to
be kept in mind is that the idea should be executed in well managed manner, any
type of material can be used. There are various types of materials which can be
used to express an idea appropriately.
Individuality is important in creating original
art
So LeWitt is one of the
prominent conceptual artist. He gave the view that individual concepts are of
utmost importance. He argued that each line has its own identity when sketched
by an individual. The ending production may vary from one artist to other one,
even if they both have same idea and planning in their mind. LeWitt said that
this individual creativity should be regarded as it is original anyway.
Conceptual art is called unbound creativity for this reason that it gives space
to every individual.
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