Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Conceptual Art

Sol Lewitt – Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967)

  1. “Conceptual art is only good when the idea is good.”
  2. “Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.”

Book Definition

  • Plan – plan would design the work
  • Form – the form becomes the mean
  • Concept – all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair
  • Idea – process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned
  • Mystic – they leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach

Own Definition

  • Plan – preconceive design of the work of art
  • Form – form is when and how the concept is materialized
  • Concept – general direction of the matter of the piece
  • Idea – the steps and components that implement the concept in the artist’s mind
  • Mystic – free from logic; beyond logic


20 words

  • Interdisciplinary paper author is a fable concurrent with his life where the energy is applied to complete his own ideas.

10 words

  • Interdisciplinary person has ideas and work concurrent with one’s life.

5 words

  • Ideas are concurrent with life.

4 words

  • Ideas are our life.

3 words

  • Ideas are life.

-Jia Hui Huang

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