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Conceptual art is actually a kind of art movement. According
to the basic definition of the artist, this kind of art would
use concepts or the ideas to create the work instead of using
the materialistic concerns. The work of conceptual art does not
confine itself to drawings or paintings.
A lot of people would try to draw realistically. However, conceptual
art only thinks about the concepts when the artist tries to draw
things. Some of the famous artists in this aspect would just use
words to describe their ideas and different people would use different
ways to follow the ideas and create the artwork.
Yes, you may actually have received this kind of assignment before.
Your teacher in school might have asked you to draw paintings
by giving you a certain theme. They may tell you to write something
about "the classroom" and you would try to write according
to what you think in your mind.
And the result is that different people in the class would have
different interpretation to the theme and there would be different
styles of paintings. This is actually the implementation of conceptual
art in daily life nowadays.
Marcel Duchamp is regarded as the father of conceptual art. He
started to create artwork in this aspect with the idea of 'ready-mades'.
He was one of the pioneers in turning the ordinary and daily things
to artwork. He would not use plenty of interesting or luxurious
objects to make the artwork. Instead, he would focus on expressing
the ideas in his mind.
But when he first started his creations, he was not successful
in gaining recognition from the other artists. The Society of
Independent Artists did not accept his artwork. Luckily, more
and more artists were persuaded that using concepts to create
artwork is a kind of art and the Foundation of Conceptual Art
was formed.
In the 1960s, the idea of conceptual art reached its peak in
the art world. People would make use of different mediums to create
the artwork and more and more audiences in the art world recognized
conceptual art and an authentic art movement.
Since then, people have tried to apply the ideas of conceptual
art to broader aspects of art apart from drawings or paintings.
They used these concepts to create music and films.
Paintings are no longer the exclusive confines of conceptual
art. Some dancers nowadays will also use the conceptual art to
express their feelings or the theme of the performance. This attracts
thousands of people to spend thousands of dollars to pay enter
the theatre and view the performance.
Conceptual art is here to stay and is not going away any time
soon.
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