Conceptual art

I googled conceptual art but couldnt really tell what it was, could you define it for us.

it is art where the ideas behind are more important than the actual image.
e.g tracy emins unmade bed, shed boat shed that won the turner prize etc...

Cough, splutter, yuck.
In that case I hate conceptual art.
I went to the Tate Britain last weekend and could have seen that Boat/Shed/Boat thing but prefered to see art with talent behind it.

Im artistic and in comparison to other artists I think its a load of ****.

wow you've seen shed boat shed?
And you dont appreciate it???
How can you say that doesnt need tallent? It certainly took a lot of imagination!

Like any art, I like some of it and dislike others. There was a time, I think, when most conceptual art was hoax, and maybe it still is. But it's been around long enough that it has conventions and cliches now, and when something has conventions and cliches there's always room for someone to come along and manipulate them cleverly. I can appreciate that.

I find a great deal of conceptual art frankly boring - it has a simple idea, puts if forward and then what? it isn't sustaining. Concept alone isn't sufficient, skill and wit and something worth saying all matter - this applies to traditional, contemporary and conceptual work.

I haven't seen anything by Tracy Emin or Damien Hirst that I like.

One that I love is Richard Long - his work has depth, skill, wit and a wonderful sense of place, of belonging where it is placed.


I don't agree that shed boat shed needed a lot of imagination - just a lot of hype and spin

I read that a performance artist aged 76 recently attacked a replica of Marcel Duchamp's piece "The Fountain" (the urinal). It was his second
attack on the piece. He said the Dadaists would have enjoyed his
performance (I agree!)

This is, to me, second generation conceptualism.....a contemporary conceptual attack on a historically conceptual piece.

Price to repair it....horrendous!

I disagree. Not many people would have thought of shed boat shed.

but why would they? it isn't that interesting