#2 CONCEPTUAL ART
This is tricky because my own interpretation of this idea differs a bit from the way the author talks about it. I tend to think that any creation is conceptual to one degree or another. What is the same though is that idea precedes expression, or as Poussin said “Able men must work with their intellects, that is, they must conceive before hand what they want to do”.
There can be tremendous ambiguity in “conceptual art” because the artist is operating on an idea, and that idea is inherent to the artists experiences and perceptions of the world which are unique to them. There is great potential in this because for each person who comes to see the work will bring an element of their own perception and experience and therefore, the art creates a unique experience for each viewer. This is one of the things about art I love, that we each have our own experience. That said, the artist working with a specific idea has to make a choice about how clearly they wish their idea to be expressed if they are concerned about a specific message coming across, their “conceptual idea” per say.
My own work (series) is held together by a larger conceptual idea (manifestation), it is the umbrella under which many pieces are realized (or manifested... Ha ha ha ), while each piece may be a strand of that concept, it is realizing itself in different ways.
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