Conceitual Art: o que é, historical context, artists, works

Conceitual art began to be disseminated in the mid-sixties (embora ten has precursors decades before), by artists interested in producing work capable of fostering dialogue and calling for reflection, provoking or public.

Nesse genre from breeding to idea (or concept) is more important than to appearance of work.

Or what is conceitual art?

Na conceitual art to ideia (ou, as or own nome say, or conceito) is the most important aspect of the work. Nesse genre of art, ideia prevails over form and, to execution and to beauty, são tidas as secondary elements.

"art não é about beauty"

Joseph Kosuth

Existem different manifestations of conceitual art. Conceitual art can be, for example, a performance (more linked to theater), where or the artist's own body can be used as a support. This is the same movement that happens with body art.

What are the main characteristics of conceitual art?

A challenge to objectualism

In general, it is possible to affirm that conceitual artists challenge the idea of ​​objectualism.

"We want the work to be important to us, we cannot make decorative art or simply visual entertainment."

Joseph Kosuth

This specific type of art does not matter to technique, execution, or palpable, tangible, or important object here and to promote reflection, stimulation or public to question.

Question or system

Artists who practice conceitual art são against a purely contemplative appreciation traditional art, or that they intend to raise a discussion of ideas, debate a question about or what art is, especially, question or system, subvert it.

There is a movement without sense of question or paper das institutions: which is the function of the gallery space, of the museum? What is the market function? Give criticism?

Importance of a participatory public

Many times conceitual art is produced from metaphors that, as soon as the audience or the spectator will not be able to decode. The work summons the public to act on other devices, raising the need for interaction, interactive experience, reflection, instigating a olhar prolonged.

The sense of the aura of the work of art loses its value, giving rise to a space for pondering, demanding an active posture that is placed during the breeding.

5 Examples of conceitual works

Parangoléby Helio Oiticica

In terms of Brazilian conceitual art, and impossible not to mention creation parangoléby Helio Oiticica. An artist is also famous for making a series of sensorial installations, more likely to his production than for his greater repercussions. parangolé.

A work is composed of layers of different materials (a series of textures and different colors), which surround the participant body, providing an interesting visual aesthetic when there is movement.

Ao sair do espaço preso do quadro, gives painting on canvas, to interactive art as or parangolé It is conducive to the construction of coats and lazer instants both for burning or dressing and for burning to attend the experience.

Anthropophagic slimeby Lygia Clark

The creation of Lygia Clark, born in 1973, was given classrooms at the Sorbonne, and consisted of a curious social interaction. Not an instant of production, a participant (student), deited not chão, is surrounded by lines that pass through mouth two that are in turn and end up forming a network on or a limited body. There is a ritual of destruction of the fabric that was formed.

Or process, which is to be repeated several times, composes of the most important performances for Brazilian arts. Anthropophagic slime It stimulates the spectator and the members to rethink anthropophagy two Brazilian Indians and two modernist artists.

To know other works of the artist, read: Lygia Clark: the main works of the contemporary artist.

I forgetby Cildo Meireles

Cildo Meireles, another Brazilian artist, Creole I forget, an important conceitual work developed between 1987 and 1989. A creation fails on the process of European colonization, giving a criticism and stimulating the viewer to reflect on this period of history.

Not its project, we see a tenda covered with notes (of dinheiro), while we not only observe ossos de boi representing a disliked indigenous population. In sound thermos, we can hear from within the noise of a motorbike.

Uma e Três Cadeirasby Joseph Kosuth

Perhaps the most cited work in terms of contemporary art seja Uma e Três Cadeiras, by North American artist Joseph Kosuth. An installation was created when the artist was twenty years old and was considered, after the days of the leaf, some more works of conceitual art.

In montagem we see three images: a cadeira in the center, on the side, a photograph of the same cadeira and on the direct side, a verbete of the dictionary by fazendo reference to the word cadeira. Esses three conceitos fazem or spectator to reflet about or that is a work of art and or role of representation.

Belief Systemby John Latham

Raised in 1959, hair artist born in Zâmbia, John Latham, a work Belief System Work with the idea of ​​construction and destruction of physical freedom.

Like a number of other creatures, Latham places books in unexpected spaces, rendering them useless with ink or even deforming them.

Symbolically, the books are seen by the artist not only as a source of knowledge and a repository of information as well as a source of errors and proof of the past. The books are also treated as a metaphor for western knowledge.

When did conceitual art emerge?

Or that we understand as conceitual art teve início em 1960's pissThere are still pioneering artists such as French Marcel Duchamp who created his famous urinol in ready-made works.

Or urinol is considered by many critics as the prototype of conceitual works. Ele teria been or initial pontapé das peças ready made, ist é, everyday objects that were transformed into artistic materials in a movement that was consecrated from 1913.

Em termos sociais, a conceitual art nasceu num questioning period In various areas: both social, ideological and artistic as well.

Revolutionary in its own way, we understand the radicality of conceitual art, and we will go behind the scenes of art history. It is enough to observe that até o seculo XIX it was unthinkable to talk about arts without thinking about an object (a cloth, a sculpture), it was inconceivable to exist a work of art with a physical support.

Main conceituais artists

Foreign Artists

• Joseph Kosuth (1945)
• Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
• Lawrence Weiner (1942)
• Piero Manzoni (1933-1963)
• Eva Hesse (1936-1970)

Brazilian Artists

• Helio Oiticica (1937-1980) (one of the first two artists to inaugurate conceitual art in Brazil in the early 1960s)
• Lygia Clark (1920-1988)
• Cildo Meireles (1948)
• Anna Maria Maiolino (1942)

Conheça also

• At the end, or what is art?
• Ready made: conceito e works of art
• Lygia Clark and her main works
• Artistic Installation
• Artistic performances to understand or genre