Conceptual art holds the concepts and ideas of art above a work of art in and of itself; rather than making aesthetics important, it makes abstractions important. The Conceptual movement began around the 1960s, centered around ready-made objects and language as art, and de-emphasized technique in favor of the ideas of the art themselves.
Some of the major proponents of the conceptual movement included Marcel Duchamp, whose “readymades,” such as Fountain (seen below), a signed and upturned urinal, which took away any aesthetic value of the work, the Art & Language group, which created art exclusively based on words and language (such as the works of Baldessari seen last week). This movement led to a multitude of present-day movements, such as “net art,” performance art, and digital art.
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