Art

fresheye sketches out a storyboard on conceptual art.

Conceptual

Conceptual art emphasizes the basic concept or idea behind a piece above any considerations of traditional artistic constraints. This art movement both draws influence from and critiques modernism. Whereas modernist art deconstructs the traditional form of visual art, conceptual art deconstructs the very definition of art itself. Through both visual and performance art, concept artists take ideas they hope to convey artistically and then proceed to do so in as minimalistic or literal a way as possible.

Artist Rachel Lee Hovnanian’s work has long employed multimedia installation to speculate on how technology is refashioning the strictures of gender and, with them, collective ideas and experiences of beauty, loneliness and motherhood.

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Above: The late Hassan Sharif, a Pioneer of Conceptual Art in the Middle East Hassan. Sharif refused to be pigeonholed as a Middle Eastern artist. His most famous series, “Objects,” featured assemblages of consumer goods - sneakers, flip flops, cardboard boxes, ropes - that were strung together in a technique that the artist referred to as “weaving.”

Above: ‘Combs’, 2016, mixed media. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York.