Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.
Art is the objectification of feeling.