Conceptual Intellectual

The first Conceptual art movement started in 1967 and continued through 1978. The art form started, however, in the early 1900's. One of the most famous pieces of conceptual art was Fountain by Marcel Duchamp. This is a quinticential piece of conceptual art. In this installation Duchamp took an old fashion urinal and signed it R. Mutt. That was it. There was no embellishing or distorting or manipulating of any kind. This is basically what conceptual art entails.

It doesn't involve the physical activity of making an object, such as sculpting or painting, but rather putting "ready mades" together to create a piece of art work. Readymades are things that are already such as the urinal in Duchamp's Fountain or the chair in Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs.


I feel that conceptual art let's your mind do the work. the definition of conceptualism is that the universe exists only in the mind and has no external reality. I think that is made very clear in the art of the conceptual period because the artists seem to just give you something to look at and let your mind go crazy with thoughts and opinions about a simple object that you see everyday but never really take the time to look at.


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