[Liz]

What is conceptual art? Can anyone give me an example of it?

 

[just]

Conceptual art, sometimes simply called Conceptualism, is*art*in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. An example is chess.

 

[E Burna]

Any pictures you could post as example(s)?

 

[just]

Pictures wouldn't be relevant. What's needed is a good enough understanding of the game to see the art in the concepts of a position. Provided the position is an artistic one.

 

[Asancta]

http://www.instantshift.com/2010/02/17/75-mind-blowing-examples-of-concept-art/

 

[Liz]

Okay I get it now. Thanks

 

[DamienHirst]

Here is another example:

http://www.damienhirst.com/the-physical-impossibility-of

The shark and the tank were assembled by someone other than the artist who came up with the idea.