The Great Artists Of The Conceptual Art Movement

The objective of this study is to post the names of three visual artists such as painters and sculptors that were the most influential during the 1960. After identifying the visual artists, a URL will be posted so that the reader can link up to review their work. Finally, a brief commentary will be offered on each of the artists in regards to why they are so influential.

Duchamp once said, "An artist should be a destroyer of tradition." By this he believed a persons artwork should be different than any other, causing it to stick out dramatically.

Dada was an artistic and literary movement that grew out of dissatisfaction with traditional social values and conventional artistic practices during World War I. Dada artists were disillusioned by the social values that led to the war and sought to expose accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic by shocking people into self-awareness. Marcel Duchamp was one of the first to participate in this movement. He is known for his satirical or humorous content and the use of accompanying text. Duchamp began to grow disappointed with “retinal” art though, and soon stopped painting on canvases altogether. He then moved out of the already existing boundaries of art into was is now called conceptual art. His monumental work is known today as The Bride Bare by Her Bachleors, Even, or The Large Glass. Duchamp worked on this piece for eight years, until he abandoned it in what he referred to as a “definitively unfinished” state. This piece of work includes humor, random chance, pessimism, and anti-art; these four elements are often found in Dada art.

Art has been a popular medium for public outcry, change and propaganda regarding issues relevant to war and suffering for hundreds of years. German expressionist Kathe Kollwitz and Spanish cubist Pablo Picasso are two artists who through their artwork have engaged with mass audiences and conveyed their own personal ideologies, emotions and beliefs on issues relevant to their world.

With the advent of Modernism in the early twentieth century, many artists and critics began making theoretical pronouncements about their works and ideas. Using three different artists and their writings from the Theories of Modern Art book by Herschel B. Chipp. I will study the artist’s works and ideas in relation to the role of art in their society, the role of traditional practices in art, their view on nature versus reality, and their view on the relationship between art and truth. The three artists and works will be the Fauvist Henri Matisse’s “Notes of a Painter,” the German Expressionist Franz Marc’s “How Does a Horse See the World?” as well as “Aphorism,” and lastly the Dadaist Jean Arp’s, “Abstract Art, Concrete Art.”

Famous French-American artist-cum-chess player Marcel Duchamp once said, “The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.” Duchamp, a highly unorthodox artist of his time, was often hailed as being the Father of Contemporary Art. He detested the so-called “retinal” art of his peers, and strove to make it something deeper—something that manifested its meaning through the lens of the viewer’s mind rather than through the retinas of their eyes. Duchamp believed that over the years, artists and society in general had grown accustomed to what their ancestors have created before them. He believed that art came from within, and was an idea

Within the field of the visual arts, I investigated how the techniques and implications of the artworks of Ai Weiwei and Banksy are comparable. In order to answer this question, I observed and analyzed artworks from both artists, noting the pieces’ effects on the viewer (me), similar visual qualities, and common themes. This process included visiting museums, looking at artwork online, and reading about the contexts of the pieces. I found that Banksy and Ai Weiwei both employ the technique of symbolism in their artworks in order to raise awareness regarding contemporary

When it comes to emotional provocation and mental stimulation, art has been luring in the masses for as long as humans have been around. What started as stick figures carved into cave walls evolved into many artistic eras defined by different artistic styles, motives, and mediums. Enthusiasts collect these works and celebrate their ability to captivate the person and speak to the soul. Two particularly notable periods in art history are those of Surrealist and Contemporary styles. Salvador Dali was, for a time, a member of the Surrealist movement, which centered around providing wildly eccentric and bizarre glimpses into the subconscious and making the public push beyond their conscious mind. Damien Hirst continues to be a massive influence

One of the most unique figures in the continuum of the art world, Marcel Duchamp changed the way we look at and produce art today. Marcel Duchamp was by far, one of the most controversial figures in art. Two of the most well known and talked about pieces by him are The Fountain and The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even . Duchamp created many other pieces that caught the attention of critics, other artists, and the population in a negative way; however, these two pieces alone, brought about the greatest amount of controversy.

Marcel Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887. His birthplace is Normandy, France, which is also where he was raised. Duchamp was one seven children. It is said that he “comes from a family of artists”. But ironically enough, his favorite childhood pastimes consisted of chess, reading, painting and playing music. Marcel created one of his earliest artworks at the age of fifteen and named it Landscape at Blainville (1902). He was very close with two of his older brothers that left home to become artists in 1904. Marcel went along with them to Paris and studied painting at Academie Julian. With the support of his brother, Julian Villion, he worked as a cartoonist while attending school. Duchamp became familiarized with the modern trends in painting, in Paris, during the 1900s. He also studied Fauvism, Cubism and Impressionism. Marcel related to the Cubist notation more than any of the others because it was “reordering reality,” not just “simply representing” it (“Marcel Duchamp,” sec 5). His early painting, Nude Descending A Staircase, showed his interest in machinery and its connection to the body’s movement through space, which later transcends into early Modernism. Duchamp was attracted to avant-garde notations of an artist as an anti-academic. He felt a natural liking in this respect with one of his early heroes, the Symbolist painter and graphic artist,

Fernand Leger said that an artist has one chance to “rise to the plane of beauty by considering everything that surrounds him as raw material”. As time passes artists have found numerous ways to appeal to various audiences through their own forms of expression. One in particular who has covered many different forms of expression is Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp truly embodied Leger’s ideals for an artist and constantly thought of new ways to express his feelings through his art and made the viewers think. While Duchamp’s early artwork was more traditional, his piece Nude descending a staircase, No. 2 truly started a change in his outlook and issued in a new era.

Abstract Expressionism is making its comeback within the art world. Coined as an artist movement in the 1940’s and 1950’s, at the New York School, American Abstract Expressionist began to express many ideas relevant to humanity and the world around human civilization. However, the subject matters, contributing to artists, were not meant to represent the ever-changing world around them. Rather, how the world around them affected the artist themselves. The works swayed by such worldly influences, become an important article within the artists’ pieces. Subjectively, looking inward to express the artist psyche, artists within the Abstract Expressionism movement became a part of their paintings. Making the paintings more of a representation

Modernism is a movement in art that desires to push the boundaries of the past art movements. The artists of this movement seek to have the viewer examine the art and seek different ways to view their pieces. Although most of Marcel Duchamp’s working career was in the Dadaism art movement his work, inspired by the avant-garde, pushed through to inspire the Modernism movement. In “Marcel Duchamp’s Art and the Geography of Modern Paris” by Dr. James Housefield, he examines the works of Duchamp and the significance they

The art world changed in the 20th century when Henri lived. He helped define and influence radical contemporary. He also was a French artist that was known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was known primarily as a painter but also as a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. Even though he was labelled a Fauve by the 1920s, he was hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of expressing language in colour and drawing. It was displayed in a body of work spanning over half a century, winning him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Marcel Duchamp’s [1887-1968] influence on the modern art world is universally recognized. His legacy remains even today unparalleled; th