Conceptual Art

Conceptual Art.

Art became defined as whatever an artist declared art to be. Art was no longer restricted to traditional art such as paintings and sculptures. Conceptional art is art that deals with ideas and experiences rather than permanent form. This movement began early 1960’s in Europe and America and continues today. Conceptual artists present their idea in some abstract, philosophical way. They tend to focus on art as a visual language, a code with open possibilities, rather than reducing possibilities to a particular form. If the art has a form, it is viewed as documentation of the idea rather than its physical appearance. In Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs is part of the conceptual art movement. It is about the idea of a chair and how one idea can be shown in many different ways by presenting a definition, picture, and the actual chair.