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The French artist Marcel Duchamp paved the way for the conceptualists, providing them with examples of prototypically conceptual works — the readymades, for instance.The most famous of Duchamp's readymades was Fountain (1917), a standard urinal-basin signed by the artist with the pseudonym "R.Mutt", and submitted for inclusion in the annual, un-juried exhibition of the Society of Independent ...
Lorraine O'Grady, a conceptual artist who challenged the understanding of race, sex and class in art and society through her avant-garde works, has died. She was 90.
Concept art is a form of visual art used to convey an idea for use in film, video games, animation, comic books, television shows, or other media before it is put into the final product. [1] The term was used by the Walt Disney Animation Studios as early as the 1930s. [ 2 ]
Mihai Olos (born 26 February 1940 in Ariniș, Romania – died 22 February 2015 in Amoltern, Endigen, Germany) was a Romanian conceptual artist, poet, essayist.. A gifted colorist in his first paintings, he became more attracted towards experimenting with various forms and materials.
George Brecht (August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008), born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.
A clear motivation of contemporary conceptualism is that the kind of perception that rational creatures like humans enjoy is unique in the fact that it has conceptual character. McDowell explains his position: I have urged that our perceptual relation to the world is conceptual all the way out to the world’s impacts on our receptive capacities.
After she enrolled at Cal State Long Beach in the early 2010s, Lek left her major undeclared, figuring she'd pursue art while preparing to become a math teacher. But a visit to New York City in ...
Michael Max Asher (July 15, 1943 – October 15, 2012) was an American conceptual artist, described by The New York Times as "among the patron saints of the Conceptual Art phylum known as Institutional Critique, an often esoteric dissection of the assumptions that govern how we perceive art."