What exactly is conceptual art?

? Conceptual art seems to be a very popular word now. It seems that all kinds of exhibitions, art institutions and self-media should add these words to make themselves different and keep up with the trend. In a large number of conceptual works, I seem to be really lost and really don't understand the so-called conceptual works of art.

To get rid of my ignorance, I decided to do some homework. First of all, Baidu said: "Conceptual art, also known as" conceptual art ",appeared in the middle and late 1960s, and its basic concept originated from Duchamp's thought: a work of art is fundamentally an artist's thought, not a tangible object, that is, painting and sculpture; Tangible objects come from that kind of thinking. This kind of art leads to the replacement of physical objects with ideas, which is a work of art that has got rid of matter. "

After Duchamp, the essence of art has changed a long time ago. Art has turned a thousand times, but most people are still used to accepting it as it was hundreds of years ago. The concept of "concept" is still not an important clue for people to watch art. Therefore, as a pioneer of conceptual art, joseph Cossus presented the "concept representation" with clear thinking, which is also an important content that we need to understand and understand in order to understand conceptual art.

? 1965, joseph Cossus copied a chair, an enlarged photo of the chair and the explanatory text of the word "chair" in the dictionary, and displayed them side by side, entitled "One and three chairs". This is a typical conceptual art work, with tangible objects representing traditional art, photos symbolizing people's thinking in images and words symbolizing people's logical thinking in language. He reconstructed his imagination of the world in the viewer's mind through three different ways of understanding the world. This change from' representation' to' concept' is the beginning of contemporary art and conceptual art.

Exaggerated, since Duchamp, all art forms are conceptual, because art only exists in ideas from now on. Because these colors or shapes are the "language" of art, not the artistic meaning in the conceptual sense. In the category of conceptual art, its manifestations include photography, documents, tables, maps, movies or videos. However, any form and media that can make artists present concepts or ideas can be discussed in conceptual art, but if the concept of art can be established, the response of the viewer must be added. In other words, conceptual art should be able to attract the attention of the audience and let the audience at least participate psychologically.

? In this way, conceptual art is no longer something that is difficult for our ordinary audience to get involved in, but the more so, the more we should be vigilant and reorganize our thinking to watch today's art. Fame, form, media, materials and so on are like vivid and interesting skins to attract the audience's attention, but if we don't discuss the depth of works in "concept" and "concept", then art is no different from some form of entertainment or games.