Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Conceptual Art

"It's the thought that counts"


As Birds states, conceptual art is about personal expression, personal narrative, and truth. Art is all about your personal discovery and mind coming out and put onto canvas. He also states how conceptual art has changed through our art history. By studying art history and learning historical art gives you the ability to learn through other artists and their conceptual ideas. By doing so, you're able to not only make your own conceptual ideas, but you have the ability to make art through appropriation.

While I would love to think that all of my art is conceptual, but some of it is simple experimental artistic mark making. But I can apply concepts many different ways, like my idea of creation and destruction of architecture and the print itself. What if I made nonrepresentational palette knife oil paintings where I would paint and carve away with the knives showing absence versus presence? What if I showed speech patterns threw movement of lines, whether they are quick and fast or slow and steadying. Would do this in an abstract and nonrepresentational oil painting.

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