Your Very Own Conceptual Art

What does conceptual even mean? Art that only the artist understands?

I am going to open a conceptual art supply store and sale nothing.

Here's mine " " (inspired by Beethoven's Fifth - that silent bit)

Actually - my conceptual art idea involves a lawnmower, Sun and large grassy area leading into a huge park The grassy area is along a curve on a major avenue and can be seen from about a mile up the road because it is on a slope. Trim the grass in the shape of the city skyline - let the old grass fade in the sun to brown, The new grass grows through it - Nature overcomes all....I figure it should last about two weeks.

"I am going to open a conceptual art supply store and sale nothing."

:) Outstanding, Ronald ! :)

Roger, mine is an ongoing one, since I was 17 I been making art everyday, it could be anything, photo, drawing, painting or sculpture but I completed at least one per day.

I think conceptual art is art that isn't necessarily representative of reality, but of the artist's imagination.

The piece I've wanted to do since the mid 80's:

Have a large rubber stamp, around 8x10 inches or so, made of the Mona Lisa.

Cover a gallery wall with cork.

Put rubber stamp, stamp pad, ink, paper, pens, thumbtacks on a table in the middle of the room.

Invite people to use the stamp on a piece of paper, sign it and stick it on the wall.

Film and timelapse the process for however long it takes to fill the wall.

I'm thinking about it Roger.......................................................................

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Description: You must be a conceptual artist and/or a philosopher to view my only conceptual art work which was done in my sanest mood. The work includes six dimensions to cover from the beginning to the end of TIME and from one end to the other end of both inner and outer UNIVERSE. Thanks for providing your thought about the work.

Conceptual art, some times it just leaves me feeling empty.................................................................

Concept: Make an image to depict a word, I wanted to depict the word FLOAT

A few of the outcomes:


The whole series:
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/angelina-vick.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=238679

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQm9bMyKls

This is my odd ball conceptual work from yesteryear.

Concept: Self challenge: Create art unlike anything I have ever seen
Which lead this entire series of exploration:
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/angelina-vick.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=262789

A few outcomes:

Last one...I wanted to depict birth, but not in a way that is humanly physical. An idea of an unseen birth.
Conversationally, I do a lot of problem solving in my sleep, if I fall asleep considering a dilemma I often wake up with the answer.
My subconscious delivers it without my conscious effort.


Hahaha, sorry for flooding your thread Roger, I liked the idea of it.

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What the rats tail are you talking about?

The very air that we breath out is art, because it erupts from the center of our being. Each molecule of my breath, each atom, each quark is a sculpture in its own right - a magnificent miniature that nobody can EVER see, and yet we can and do believe that those tiny sculptures are there.

To honor this vast collective of tiny sculptures that I breath, I shall set up an installation of large spheres, each representing a Platonic ideal of a particular scale of reality at which my breath sculptures flow. Each day, I shall sit in a different sphere, and I shall breathe in a different rhythm, specifically attuned to the micro- resonate vibratory state of the particular subatomic unit that I breathe out.

These breaths shall represent nothing less than the essence of the human soul. I shall do it naked, so that the act will not be tarnished by the Puritanical hysterical aversion to the human body, which is a beautiful thing that breathes all these cosmogonic molecular, atomic, and sub-atomic sculptures.


... either that or some form of knitting combined with regurgitational drip painting.

Either of these would be full of meaning. The breath sculptures would capture the meaning of believing for sure in things we cannot ever see - things that have no dimension, no mass, no objective reality (only conceptual congruity), yet define reality itself (i.e., "atoms"). The multi-tasking of knitting with regurgitational drip painting would capture the meaning of voiding or trying to create NOTHING within, in a reality where even nothing is something, thereby rendering life ALWAYS meaningful by proving that there is absolutely no other option.

con·cep·tu·al art
/kənˈsɛp(t)ʃ(əw)əl ɑrt/

noun

1. art in which the idea presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product, if there is one

Note the CON in "conceptual" (^_^)

Funny you say that, Wiki talks about the CON.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art But specifically about this piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erased_de_Kooning_Drawing

I think of the woman who was drinking and throwing up colored milk, and the other woman who was using her period blood to create art.
Conceptual art...it can be gimmicky, attention grabbing, mean nothing and be a flippant reaction to which others attribute great meaning.

Which begs the question, does good art have to have an intended meaning? Or is it enough that a viewer can?

It's quite sufficient that the viewer can have a meaning. In the end, that's really all that counts.

I remember that someone once saw anger in one of my paintings, where anger was the remotest thing from my being at the time of painting it. I was baffled at the time, but years later I grew to realize that this, in fact, WAS the meaning of that painting ... for HER.

This is one of a series of 32 images.
Each image is created using 20 random english words, sorted alphabetically.
The title of the image is selected randomly from the 20 words.
Each letter in the alphabet is assigned a random color and curve, and each word is written as both a set of curves and a rectangular sequence of faint colors.
The words used in this image are:

example flock ground hideous hospitable mouth nail noxious plants pot quarter repair rot space toothpaste turkey wall way woozy worried

As with all my artwork, this image was created by running a computer program written by myself

Did this one a while back.

A conceptual image I have wanted to make for years is a composite photo. It contains the following elements:
The base image is the wrinkled hand of an old black man, pooling milk in his palm.
Toddlers of several races are wading and splashing in the pool, interacting as they play.
His fingers are curled upwards, and morph into gnarled (mossy?) old trees, perhaps oak or eucalyptus.
The sun blazes in a black sky of brilliant stars, such as you would only see in space.

The image is a metaphor of the creation of man in a state of innocence and without original sin.
The particular specific sin "missing" is racism.

I've envisioned this image since about the 1970s, long before digital image editors make such an image potentially possible.
My limited technical skills are the main obstacle to producing such an image, although collecting the right images for the composite would certainly be difficult, also.

Loved all the expressions of conceptual art , both realized and imagined, both meaningful and meaningless.

Particularly, I loved the middle few seconds in Lisa Kaiser's video, when the slideshow of her stunning work and the music stopped..Being in suspended animation waiting for the 2nd half to begin and not knowing what it would be...those few seconds seemed to go on forever ..and then BANGO!!! Lisa appears and in a frantic pace, a work of art develops.

Now what got me to post this thread.?..Blame it on Jeff Kolker.

I was watching with great interest the video he posted about the Conceptual work of On Kawara.

It was set in the Guggenheim Museum, NYC

It initially brought back memories of when the structure was proposed and eventually built.

I remember very well, how Frank Loyd Wright warned the Guggenheim people, telling them that he hated modern art...and how they allowed him to build their art museum anyway.
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No wall painting ever looked right on that ramp..Hanging a piece parallel to the earth, made the piece look like it was sloping to the left, and hanging the piece parallel to the slope would never look right.

I always thought that someone should (maybe someone did?) create a series of paintings with a rhombus other than a rectangle, whereby the sides would be true vertical, and the top and bottom would be at the angle of the slope of the ramp...

Since Mr. Kawara work was a continuum, requiring the viewer to follow it's progression from the top to the bottom for the full effect'

got me thinking....Continuum-Ramp?.

What about one continuous painting going the complete length of the ramp??

And the viewer would be required to sit in a cart (with no brakes) at the top, and given a push...As the cart gains speed the painting would begin whizzing by the peripheral vision of the now preoccupied viewer.hanging on for dear life.

And at the bottom, I would imagine it would be quite an experience.....A meaningful art experience? Who knows?

THE PARK IS OPEN!

Roger, here is a piece of conceptual art that was the main character in a film.

Roger, you have the right idea, for sure. A few years ago we were at the Guggenheim for the Kandinsky retro. The ramp was so slick and my wife had on (in retrospect) the wrong shoes. She kept sliding down and fell twice on that damned ramp. Now that too could be a go concept piece: watching people fall and roll into the precious works of art... hmmnnn.

Roger,


Here without further ado is my impression of God.


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Not signed...not sure what he or she might be referring to, so please no one take it personally.

A ramp was built at the Nelson new modern in KC. But there is an elevator like at Guggenheim.

from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art

"Through its association with the Young British Artists and the Turner Prize during the 1990s, in popular usage, particularly in the UK, "conceptual art" came to denote all contemporary art that does not practice the traditional skills of painting and sculpture.[7] It could be said that one of the reasons why the term "conceptual art" has come to be associated with various contemporary practices far removed from its original aims and forms lies in the problem of defining the term itself. As the artist Mel Bochner suggested as early as 1970, in explaining why he does not like the epithet "conceptual", it is not always entirely clear what "concept" refers to, and it runs the risk of being confused with "intention." Thus, in describing or defining a work of art as conceptual it is important not to confuse what is referred to as "conceptual" with an artist's "intention."

Roger, I'm honored so thank you for the compliment and this very interesting thread!