How to Use conceptualism in a Sentence

conceptualism

noun
  • The Chanel-as-love-story frame is his retort to those who would dismiss his everyday conceptualism as a poor fit for so lightsome a house.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The creators of Untitled Goose Game seem to have known that there was a risk that the title would fail to rise above conceptualism.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Now 38 years old, the young Akchoté has earned a reputation for fierce conceptualism.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2019
  • London’s art schools started swapping drawing classes for conceptualism and cameras.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • That seemed ridiculously backward by the lights of the time’s reigning vanguards of flinty post-minimalism, cagey conceptualism, and chaste abstraction.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • In the end, craft—like photography—was freed from its medium-specific purgatory by conceptualism.
    — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Resnick’s work contributes to the conceptual discourse of the time, but also transcends it by reimagining more traditional art forms based on the formal breakthroughs of conceptualism.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • By contrast, London was considered a breeding ground of edgy young things lauded as faces of the future, and Paris, all creative conceptualism and glamour, the zenith of the seasonal calendar.
    — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2016
  • Nowadays, portraiture is enjoying a renaissance, but at the time Wiley’s decision to represent people—especially those who weren’t white—was a bold break with the era’s conceptualism.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The simple geometric seriality and oneness of this sculpture also triggers minimalism, not to say conceptualism.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Her strain of snapshot conceptualism, profoundly personal and eminently personable, could have been overwhelmed with minutiae or weighed down by retrospective insight.
    — Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2020
  • His exploration of motifs—in paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture—propelled 20th-century art into a host of avenues, including pop art, conceptualism and minimalism.
    — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2018
  • But Piper quickly joined the avant-garde of her time, leaving figuration behind for the conceptualism then being formulated by Sol LeWitt and other (mostly male) artists.
    — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
  • In the fine arts, conceptualism overtook both figurative work and abstraction in the 20th century, giving the idea of a creative work more weight than its aesthetic or representational properties.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Drawing from symphonies, chamber music and conceptualism, electro-acoustic fusions, neo-romanticism and choral music, string quartets, song cycles and serialism, Reynolds embraces and expands many traditions.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019
  • But from the 1970s on, as conceptualism, expressionist painting and other postmodernist movements came to the fore, the Alberses’ brand of geometric abstraction and formal experimentation fell out of fashion.
    — Carol Kino, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
  • These cannily aestheticized, fluidly heuristic strategies help the movie transcend its original impersonal conceptualism to convey the immediacy and the real-world power of political mythology—and attempt a corrective demythologizing in real time.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 June 2021
  • Like Liu himself did back in the early 1990s, Xiaojun is studying traditional painting technique at an institution not yet ready to encourage students to embrace Western art practices like conceptualism or Dada.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • On the left wall are two pictures, by Berndnaut Smilde and Ravelle Pillay, that partake of the grand pictorial tradition that continued for centuries until it was disrupted by Marcel Duchamp’s invention of conceptualism, which would dominate contemporary art.
    — Benjamin Lima special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 24 Feb. 2026

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