CONCEPT INTERMEDIA & René Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 Conceptual art Five Words In Green Neon Joseph Kosuth Conceptual art is a type of art whose material is ideas. Idea, concept or thought it is an art in itself. Resignation to the realization of the work. Conceptual art Sol LeWitt A Wall Divided Vertically into Fifteen Equal Parts, Each with a Different Line Direction and Colour, and All Combinations 1970 Instructions: Rather than actually making wall-drawings himself, Sol LeWitt produced instructions, consisting of text and diagrams, outlining how his wall drawings could be made. Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel, 1913 Bicycle Wheel is mainly famous as the first example of what Duchamp called his "readymades": artworks which literally constituted found, generally massproduced objects, placed in galleries or other suitably suggestive contexts and presented as works of art. Conceptual art . Marcel Duchamp is often seen as an important forefather of conceptual art, and his readymade Fountain of 1917 cited as the first conceptual artwork. Fountain, Marcel Duchamp,1917 Conceptual art . Abstract art Pop art Conceptual art Land art Happening, performance Videoart Aktivism Sol LeWitt, Six Geometric Figures (+ Two) (Wall Drawings)1980–1 Conceptual art Jannis Kounellis Untitled 1969 Found objects: Some conceptual artists use found objects to express their ideas. For example artists in the Italian arte povera group used all kinds of found objects and low-value materials such as twigs, cloth and fat, with the aim of challenging and disrupting the values of the commercialised contemporary gallery system. (Arte povera means ‘poor art’). Conceptual art In L.H.O.O.Q. the objet trouvé ("found object") is a cheap postcard reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th-century painting Mona Lisa onto which Duchamp drew a moustache and beard in pencil and appended the title. The name of the piece, L.H.O.O.Q., is a pun; the letters pronounced in French sound like "Elle a chaud au cul", "She is hot in the arse", or "She has a hot ass"; "avoir chaud au cul" is a vulgar expression implying that a woman has sexual restlessness. L.H.O.O.Q., Marcel Duchamp,1919 Marcel Duchamp . Mile of String, Marcel Duchamp,1942 Marcel Duchamp Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys was a German-born artist active in Europe and the United States from the 1950s through the early 1980s, who came to be associated with that era's international, Conceptual art and Fluxus movements. Joseph Beuys The Pack Joseph Beuys, 1969 Beuys's diverse body of work ranges from traditional media of drawing, painting, and sculpture, to process-oriented, or time-based "action" art, the performance of which suggested how art may exercise a healing effect (on both the artist and the audience) when it takes up psychological, social, and/or political subjects. I like America and America likes me, Joseph Beuys, 1974 Joseph Beuys Beuys wrapped himself in felt and spent three days in a room with a coyote. The work was an expression of his antiVietnam War stance, and also reflected his beliefs about the damage done to the American continent and its native cultures by European settlers. 7000 Oaks (7000 Eichen), Joseph Beuys urban reforestation project, began in 1982, at Documenta VII in Kassel, and continued until his death in 1986 Joseph Beuys “7000 Oaks supposed to regenerate the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare for a positive future in that context.” One and Three Chairs Joseph Kosuth, 1970 Conceptual art Sol leWitt Instructions faxed by LeWitt to Franklin Furnace for Drafters of Wall Drawing 811 Cube Without a Cube, Sol LeWitt Sol leWitt „When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.“ —Sol LeWitt Two open modular cubes half off, Sol LeWitt, 1972 Sol leWitt “Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.” —Sol LeWitt Line Drawing #118, Sol LeWitt Conceptual art and minimalism LeWitt asked for fifty points to be distributed evenly over the face of the wall. After that is done, he then instructs the person to connect every one of the fifty dots by straight lines. After reading this, it seems like the idea behind the work is nothing, but after performing Sol’s instructions, we begin to see the beauty behind his procedural view of artistic concepts. Linguistic and semantic approaches Joseph Kosuth, No Number Twice (+216, After Augustine's Confessions) III', 1991 Visually conceptual poetry and text installations, using the possibilities of language, sometimes devoid of a single meaning that works on its own or in the context of minimal drawing or color intervention. Linguistic and semantic approaches Project, Jiří Valoch Linguistic and semantic approaches Jenny Holzer [no title] 1979–82 Conceptual art CZ Jiří Valoch Performance Sleep, Vladimír Havlík Performance Artist, Keith Arnett, 1976 Performance Happenings Happenings Land art Running Fence, California, Christo a Jeanne-Claude, 1976 Land art Richard Long, Walking the Line, 1970 Land art Street art Keith Arnatt Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of his Former Self 1969–72, printed 2000 Activism Videoart Videoart Videoart INTERMEDIA Olafur Eliasson, Your blind passenger, 2010 What are the media? Media The media is composition, product and subject of human communication Marina Abramovič, Imponderabilia, 1977 What are the media? Communication between sender (source) and recipient (user) TV Buddha, Nam June Paik,1974 Closed Circuit video installation with bronze sculpture Intermedia Olafur Eliasson's 1993 work Beauty conjures an indoor rainbow with a cloud of falling mist Intermedia Intermedia itself is the concept of confrontation. This reflects potentially conflicting, disconcerting and unassuaged clashes within the context of applying multifarious approaches to creating in terms of both form and content. fusion or synthesis of multiple media or forms, transformation into a new form Intermedial approaches Intermedial approaches Cyber art Computer art Generative art Interactive art Interactive art Virtual reality