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Print: $20.00 In 1965, conceptual art came into use as a term defining art with primary
importance placed on the artists’ propositional concept, de-emphasizing the manner of
execution. Conceptual art as a popular phenomenon, known as conceptualism, had a
profound impact upon the art world as a whole because it could manifest itself in any
material or form. This allowed conceptual artists to approach themes that artists working
in traditional materials could not. The term conceptual art was defined by Sol LeWitt, a
pioneer of the movement, to describe diverse forms of written and visual documentation,
including textual data, diagrams, drawings, maps, and photographic records. Stressing
the use of language and thought process, the movement was the culmination of written
information being enacted as art, something begun early in the century.
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