How to Use conceptual art in a Sentence

conceptual art

noun
  • The same goes for visual and—rife in the show—conceptual art.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
  • There was a time when AI art was seen as a burgeoning form of conceptual art.
    — Ahmed Elgammal, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But there has been lots of conceptual art throughout history.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2021
  • How an exchange between a post office lawyer and whimsical artists gets to the heart of how conceptual art works.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The move feels refreshing in a subversive, conceptual art kind of way.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Often considered one of the founders of conceptual art, he is best known for his wall drawings, of which there are over a thousand.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
  • The breakthrough of conceptual art was to privilege the idea driving a work over its physical form.
    — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
  • The limbo feel of the 70s produced so much great art - movies, books, land art and conceptual art - that matters to me today.
    — Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2018
  • What had started as a diary of hair styles and piercings grew into a conceptual art project as Echeverri evolved as an artist.
    — Zoey Poll Adriane Quinlan Michaela Trimble Becky Malinsky Katherine McGrath Monica Mendal, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • The greatest conceptual art pieces ever mounted have been on exhibit for nearly 40 years now.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Studying the work of artists Lawrence Weiner and Joseph Kosuth taught her that text had a place in conceptual art.
    — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Her drawings, photos and conceptual art pieces were exhibited in galleries and museums around the world.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 13 Apr. 2024
  • In the art world, people have been buying and selling conceptual art, digital art and video works (which may exist only as digital files) for years.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Ono and Lennon first met in 1966 when the latter took in the former’s conceptual art at a London gallery.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Ai Weiwei, maker of conceptual art and public sculptures, has had dalliances with architecture in the past.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2018
  • In between all the filming, Hodge will also be managing his conceptual art studio, titled 9b.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 21 June 2021
  • Across the entire world there were maybe less than a thousand people — probably in the hundreds — who were concerned and thinking about a contemporary conceptual art.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • So avant-garde artists turned to conceptual art, experimenting with a range of techniques and materials, such as video, performance and body art, to try and make sense of the world around them.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • When abstract expressionism was the talk of the town early in his career, Ruscha made the conscious decision to throw conceptual art, pop and dada in a blender.
    — Michael Slenske, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
  • It is constructed by careful choices in materials, coloration, and subject matter to enter the realm of conceptual art.
    — Erin Parish, Miami Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Today, the late artist is considered a major force of the West Coast conceptual art movement in the late 1960s.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2021
  • The work is a bridge of African sensibilities with Western conceptual art that nods to ecology and climate justice.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 24 June 2024
  • My issue is more with the curation, which leans heavily toward a kind of conceptual art that is largely colorless and typically sedate.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Staged inside the Green Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, the room was a poignant display of place and loss in the form of deadpan conceptual art.
    — Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The work falls into a long tradition, part conceptual art and part whimsy, that emerged in response to the oppressive instantaneity of the internet.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2022
  • One of the key figures of the nouveau réalisme (New Realism) movement, Klein was a pioneer of conceptual art.
    — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Despite the controversy, Kiefer found a new mentor—the conceptual art pioneer Joseph Beuys—and his career soon took off.
    — Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • American artist Joseph Kosuth, one of the pioneers of conceptual art, was chosen to take the idea of ‘proportion’ and express it on the bottle.
    — Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Murray was one; the other was Joseph Kosuth, who was not only one of the pioneers of conceptual art but also its strictest and most demanding inquisitor.
    — Barry Schwabsky, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Mahfuz Sultan said the selection aims to illustrate how Abloh’s ideas traveled across platforms spanning from conceptual art to pop culture.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025

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