How to Use conceptual art in a Sentence

conceptual art

noun

• The same goes for visual and—rife in the show—conceptual art.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• The man does amazing things with space and conceptual art.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2018
• Studying the work of artists Lawrence Weiner and Joseph Kosuth taught her that text had a place in conceptual art.
  — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• The limbo feel of the 70s produced so much great art - movies, books, land art and conceptual art - that matters to me today.
  — Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2018
• Today, the late artist is considered a major force of the West Coast conceptual art movement in the late 1960s.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2021
• Often considered one of the founders of conceptual art, he is best known for his wall drawings, of which there are over a thousand.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
• How an exchange between a post office lawyer and whimsical artists gets to the heart of how conceptual art works.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• The breakthrough of conceptual art was to privilege the idea driving a work over its physical form.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
• One does not need training in conceptual art to react to a photograph.
  — Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2022
• While so much early conceptual art tended toward the cold and cerebral, Mr. Baldessari’s was infused with a droll sense of humor.
  — Jori Finkel, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• What a great idea: A work of conceptual art disguised as a TV show, one aimed at taking down both the art world and the stagnant state of competition television.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
• What had started as a diary of hair styles and piercings grew into a conceptual art project as Echeverri evolved as an artist.
  — Zoey Poll Adriane Quinlan Michaela Trimble Becky Malinsky Katherine McGrath Monica Mendal, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• American artist Joseph Kosuth, one of the pioneers of conceptual art, was chosen to take the idea of ‘proportion’ and express it on the bottle.
  — Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• This sort of conceptual art is integral to Barth’s practice.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• One of the key figures of the nouveau réalisme (New Realism) movement, Klein was a pioneer of conceptual art.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
• So avant-garde artists turned to conceptual art, experimenting with a range of techniques and materials, such as video, performance and body art, to try and make sense of the world around them.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• But there has been lots of conceptual art throughout history.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2021
• Van-Huy is best known as the namesake of Bernadette Corporation, a group that flourished in the ‘90s and brilliantly brought together the strands of fashion, deeply conceptual art, and club culture.
  — Sophie Kemp, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2019
• Despite the controversy, Kiefer found a new mentor—the conceptual art pioneer Joseph Beuys—and his career soon took off.
  — Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
• The enigmatic fusions of Pop and conceptual art, centered on texts, produced by Mr. Ruscha in California in the 1960s, are now considered ahead of their time.
  — Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2019
• In the art world, people have been buying and selling conceptual art, digital art and video works (which may exist only as digital files) for years.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• Oleg’s shenanigans are followed by another scandal at the museum: A video to promote a bloodless piece of conceptual art called The Square has gone viral, for the simple reason that the video is in bad taste.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 25 Oct. 2017
• The greatest conceptual art pieces ever mounted have been on exhibit for nearly 40 years now.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
• The exhibit will feature up to 15 sculptures and conceptual art located along the 1-mile rail trail, which runs parallel to Needham Street in Newton.
  — Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
• In the span of 132 glossy pages, Sansweet detailed the way Lucas realized his vision for Star Wars through conceptual art and models, which were then translated into toy form.
  — Alexander Huls, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2019
• Murray was one; the other was Joseph Kosuth, who was not only one of the pioneers of conceptual art but also its strictest and most demanding inquisitor.
  — Barry Schwabsky, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
• Across the entire world there were maybe less than a thousand people — probably in the hundreds — who were concerned and thinking about a contemporary conceptual art.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• Ai Weiwei, maker of conceptual art and public sculptures, has had dalliances with architecture in the past.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2018
• Fusun Onur, a pioneer of conceptual art in Turkey, at age 85 has filled the Turkish pavilion with wiry cats and mice set up in storyboard tableaus that confront modern-day threats like the pandemic and climate change.
  — Colleen Barry, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2022
• The work falls into a long tradition, part conceptual art and part whimsy, that emerged in response to the oppressive instantaneity of the internet.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024