conceptual art

noun

1. art in which emphasis is placed on the means and processes of producing art objects rather than on the objects themselves and in which the various tools and techniques, as photographs, photocopies, video records, and the construction of environments and earthworks, are used to convey the message to the spectator.

conceptual art

noun

1. art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work

Other Words From

• conceptual artist noun

Example Sentences

The setup, common for pre-digital Conceptual art, is much like the way folks used to show the neighbors happy pictures of their summer vacation.

From Los Angeles Times

She grew up in San Francisco, where she attended the San Francisco Art Institute and got a degree in conceptual art.

From Los Angeles Times

Ai is famed for his iconoclastic, conceptual art practice that includes performance, photography, sculptures and installations, which are often made with salvaged or surprising materials like ancient pottery, bicycles, porcelain sunflower seeds or rebar from schoolhouses that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake of 2008.

From Seattle Times

“Truisms,” Holzer’s first language-based work, emerged amid the Conceptual art of the late 1970s and its backdrop of post-Watergate political fatigue, financial disarray, urban blight and cross-disciplinary punk.

From New York Times

“This is my conceptual art project,” Wood said of his stylized homage to the early-aughts poker boom, when he came of age in the glow of the 1998 gambling movie “Rounders” and ESPN’s breathless tourney coverage.

From Los Angeles Times