Conceptual art emerged in the 1960s-1970s as a reaction against commercialized art. It prioritized ideas over traditional art objects, using images and objects to convey concepts. Influenced by Duchamp's readymades, it questioned what art is. There was no set style, and works took many forms including installations, performances, and land art. Key ideas included art being conceptual rather than material, reducing objects to minimalism, and requiring viewer participation to complete works. Prominent conceptual artists profiled include Damien Hirst, known for installations using medical and domestic items to explore death, and Tracy Emin who used autobiographical works addressing sexuality and relationships.

2. What is Conceptual Art?
 Art that is intended to convey an idea or concept to
the perceiver and need not involve the creation or
appreciation of a traditional art object such as a
painting or sculpture. (Dictionary)

3. But… what does that really
mean?
 Ideas are more important then the finished work
 Art of ideas
 Uses images and objects to make the viewer think,
and to think particularly about what art is and what it
means
 Rejected the idea of “art should be beautiful”
 Rejects conventional painting and sculpture

4. When was the movement
taking place?
 middle 1960s and the early 1970;s

5. What led up to this
movement? Who influenced
it?
 Influenced by Marcel Duchamp with his ready
mades
 Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni “what is art?”

6. Was it a reaction against
anything?
 Reaction against the increasingly commercialized art
world
 No traditional art objects

7. Style
 No particular style
 Conceptualism could take the form of tendencies
such as happenings, performance art, installation,
body art, and earth art
 Photography gained interest

8. Key Ideas
 Art is essentially conceptual
 Reduce the material to absolute minimum
 Influenced by the simplicity of minimalism
 The gallery/museum or the audience complete the
art work somehow
 Self-conscious

9. Damien Hirst
 English artist
 Death is a central theme in his works

10. Spot Paintings, Household gloss on canvas 84 x 84
inches (213.4 x 213.4 cm)Damien Hirst, 2005.

11. Damiel Hirst, Pharmacy, 1992, Glass, faced particleboard, painted MDF, beech,
ramin, wooden dowels, aluminium, pharmaceutical packaging, desks, office.

12. Tracy Emin
Style:
Autobiographical
Confessional
 English artist born in 1963
 Shestudied art in Maidstone, then returned to
London to study painting at the Royal College of Art.

13. Tracey Emin, My Bed (c. 1999) Installation.

14. Everyone
I Have
Ever
Slept With
1963–
1995 by
Tracey

15. Joseph Kosuth
 American conceptual artist
 Born January 31, 1945
 More language based art
work

16. Joseph Kosuth, One and Three chairs, 1965.

17. Connection

18. What do I think?
 Making other people do the art work, may be unfair
 Art can be ideas
 It is nice that ideas are important – more creative
 Viewers interaction to ideas

19. Bibliography
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