Conceptual Paintings
CONCEPTUAL STYLE
In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
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Style: Conceptual
Vertical Phythms - Animal Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Vertical Phythms - Animal Painting - Oil on Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whether deep mysterious jungle or delightfully whimsical florals. His...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surflow - Surfing Art - Figurative Art By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Surflow - Surfing Art - Figurative - Oil Print By Marc Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whether deep mysterious jungle or delightfully whimsical florals. His colo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Monkey Time - Animal Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Playfl monkeys climb exotic colored plants clowning as only monkeys do.
Monkey Time - Animal Painting - Oil on Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, ...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A provincial delight. Oil on canvas, 41 х 51 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A provincial delight. Oil on canvas, 41х51 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, gr...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A random meeting. Oil on canvas, 100. 5 x 100. 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A random meeting. Oil on canvas, 100. 5 x 100. 5 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument design...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A walk in the village
Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Path. Oil on canvas, 90x110 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Path. Oil on canvas, 90x110 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of Latvi...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait in Black, Face Silhouette, Pink Details, Abstract, Line Drawing, White
Located in Barcelona, ES
The paintings of Aleix Font (Sabadell, Spain, 1984) function as a narrative between the collective and the individual world, exploring space and its interactions with concepts such a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Meeting. 1998. Oil on canvas, 100 x 99. 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Meeting. 1998. Oil on canvas, 100x99.5 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, gradua...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Make My Day - Chicken Rooster Painting by Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Make My Day - Chicken Rooster Painting by Marc Zimmerman
He stands there, blocking all who dare challenge him in their pursuit to get by. This heroic cock, Charlie, the great intimi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Joy. Oil on cardboard, 47. 5 x 57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Joy. Oil on cardboard, 47.5x57 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of La...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Ball game. Oil on canvas, 54x62 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ball game
Oil on canvas, 54x62 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of L...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ball game II. Oil on canvas, 46 x 56. 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ball game II
Oil on canvas, 46x56.5 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life
Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm
Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Walk. Oil on canvas, 85x84.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Walk. Oil on canvas, 85x84.5 cm
Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of Lat...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meeting II. Oil on canvas, 85x84.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Meeting II
Oil on canvas, 85x84.5 cm
Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate ...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A walk. Oil on canvas, 80x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A walk
Oil on canvas, 80x81 cm
Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of Lat...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flight. 1999. Oil on canvas, 76x91 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flight
1999. Oil on canvas, 76x91 cm
Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate ...
Category
1990s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reginald and Perrin 26
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reginald and Perrin 22
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reginald and Perrin 9
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reginald and Perrin 24
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reginald and Perrin 2
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Post Conceptual Digital Artist Oil Painting Screenprint Diptych Joseph Nechvatal
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Nechvatal
The Oedipal God of Oil Paint and Destruction, Diptych
Oil and screenprint on two canvases, 1985, both signed 'Joseph Nechvatal', titled and dated on the reverse, wit...
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Screen
Landscape in Blue - Animal Painting - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
In an abstract forest meadow exotic animals contentedly graze. The trees are lush with inventive surreal flowers and leaves.
Landscape in Blue - Animal Paintings - Conceptual Art By...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections in the City - Figurative Painting - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Reflections in store front windows from across the street created fascinating abstract overlaps onto the manicans. This painting is from the mission district in San Francisco.
Refle...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monkeying Around - Animal Painting by Marc
Located in Carmel, CA
Monkeys at play in a coral backdrop and colorful foliage. Good for reminding us of our playful nature.
Monkeying Around - Animal Paintings - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman
This m...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monkey Time #2 - Animal Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Playfl monkeys climb exotic colored plants clowning as only monkeys do. in this hot pink painting.
Monkey Time #2 - Animal Painting - Oil on Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerma...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alkyd Enamel Oil Painting Half A Thought Cut Panel Wall Hanging Modern Sculpture
By Peter Wegner
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil-based alkyd enamel on plywood panel with cuts. this is a cut plywood wall relief sculpture with paint on it. This has an architectural quality to it.
Peter Wegner (born 1963) i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Fruitless Endeavor
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Behind The Smile
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Attune - Woman in the Jungle - Mother Nature by Marc
Located in Carmel, CA
Primal woman of the jungle with a headdress of vibrant tropical plants
woman portrait - Figurative Paintings - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman
This masterpiece is exhibited in th...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Lollipop
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Athlete
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Red Hair
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
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Little Companion
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
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Silent Echoes
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
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Far From Home 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
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Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Attraction
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
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Pink Fantasy
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique painting from the artist Veomancha
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Game of Life
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In this game of life, we fiercely strive, Chasing dreams, hoping to survive.
Each step we take, is a move on the board, Sometimes rewarded, sometimes ignored.
We start with a roll of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Clocher roman
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist pencil signed lower right and is in very good condition . Jean Couty Epreuve de' artist an original ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
ANTIQUE GAMES. Love story.
Located in Oslo, NO
In this piece, I've harmoniously blended acrylics, spray paint, and ink to evoke the timeless dance of intimate connection. The vintage vibes and fine art elements coalesce, crafting...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Antique games. Antique drama.
Located in Oslo, NO
In the paintings of this series , images of antique figures and statues are used to talk about the eternal in modern language , as well as to present antiquity in a modern way .The w...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic
1980s Large Abstract Collage Israeli Painting Musical Notes, French Quote
Located in Surfside, FL
Collage and Painted mixed media artwork painting.
Born 1930 in Chile, Golomb immigrated to Palestine in 1935. He later became a member of the Radius Group and an instructor at the A...
Category
1980s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Paint, Acrylic Polymer, Mixed Media, Board
Serenity
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
WHEW
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
“Whew” captures a vivid, abstract essence that plays with both color and text to convey a distinct m...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
ART
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
This piece, entitled “Art,” masterfully utilizes a stark black canvas to underscore the profou...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
WONKY
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
“Wonky”, immediately captivates the viewer’s attention with its boldness. In stark contrast to the b...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
YO
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
The painting “YO” features a vibrant yellow background, radiating warmth and energy. Dominating the ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
SILENT SUNRISE
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
In “Silent Sunrise”, a yellow/orange backdrop dominates the canvas, imbuing the scene with the...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
321
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
Titled ‘3 2 1,’ this painting captures the universal sentiment of anticipation and the inexora...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
REASONING AND ACTION
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas, 4 panels
36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm), each; 72 x 72 in. (182.9 x 182.9 cm), overall
Each panel signed, titled, and dated, verso
In this quadriptych painting...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
DEAD ON
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
“Dead On” depicts a striking bullseye, dominating the canvas with its bold presence. At the prec...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
HANKY PANKY
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
The painting “Hanky Panky.” is playful yet enigmatic, commands attention, hinting at a narrati...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
OH
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
“Oh” could be interpreted in several ways, reflecting the complexity of human emotions and the momen...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
THE ESSENCE OF EXISTENCE
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas, 4 panels
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm), overall
Each panel signed, titled, and dated, verso
This quadriptych against a warm grey background featuring “am,” ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
TRIPLE THREAT… ME
Located in New York, NY
2024
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 60 in. (91.4 x 152.4 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
“Triple Threat...ME,” suggests a powerful declaration of self, an acknowledgment of multifacete...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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