1. Conceptual Art

2. True or False? 1.____ Art doesn’t have to be created, just the idea is good enough to be called art. 2. ____Art can be a performance, text, or a set of instructions. 3. ____Art is something that should be experienced. 4. ____Art can be a tin can with poop in it. What is art?

3. What is Conceptual Art? – began in the early 20th century – especially the 1960’s – based on the belief that art may exist solely as an idea – Influenced by the Dada movement and the work of the Marcel Duchamp (creator of the "ready-made“) IDEAS: – Challenging notions about art, society, politics, and the media – Knowledge and thought gained in artistic production was more important than the finished product. – meant to be proactive and questioning to the nature of art.

4. APPROACH: – Belief that art can be written, published, performed, fabricated, or simply thought. – The use of text is very common, it also typically incorporates photographs, instructions, maps, and videos. – It rejecting the importance of the creator or a talent in the traditional art forms such as painting and sculpture. – It challenged the importance of traditional art, the use of materials, techniques and rules. – forerunner for installation, digital, and performance art, more generally art that can be experienced.

5. 48. Marcel Duchamp. Bottle Rack Series. (1914) Readymade.

6. Marcel Duchamp…

7. 49. Piero Manzoni. Living Sculpture. (1961). Italy.

9. 50. Yoko Ono. Grapefruit, First Edition. (1964). Book.

11. PAINTING TO EXIST ONLY WHEN IT'S COPIED OR PHOTOGRAPHED Let people copy or photograph your paintings. Destroy the originals. 1964 Spring

12. PAINTING TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN YOUR HEAD Go on transforming a square canvas in your head until it becomes a circle. Pick out any shape in the process and pin up or place on the canvas an object, a smell, a sound or a colour that came to your mind in association with the shape. 1962 Spring

13. SNOW PIECE Think that snow is falling. Think that snow is falling everywhere all the time. When you talk with a person, think that snow is falling between you and on the person. Stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow. 1963

14. TUNAFISH SANDWICH PIECE Imagine one thousand suns in the sky at the same time. Let them shine for one hour. Then, let them gradually melt into the sky. Make one tunafish sandwich and eat. 1964 Spring

15. Photographs of Yoko Ono & John Lennon