How to Use conceptual art in a Sentence
conceptual art
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The same goes for visual and—rife in the show—conceptual art.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
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The man does amazing things with space and conceptual art.
—Angela Chen, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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Staged inside the Green Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, the room was a poignant display of place and loss in the form of deadpan conceptual art.
—Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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One does not need training in conceptual art to react to a photograph.
—Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This sort of conceptual art is integral to Barth’s practice.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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But there has been lots of conceptual art throughout history.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The greatest conceptual art pieces ever mounted have been on exhibit for nearly 40 years now.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ai Weiwei, maker of conceptual art and public sculptures, has had dalliances with architecture in the past.
—Liz Stinson, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2018
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In the mid-1960s, when conceptual art, Pop Art and minimalist sculpture were in the ascendancy and painting was declared dead by many critics and artists, Mr. Marden issued a powerful counterstatement.
—William Grimes, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
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