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Conceptual Art. John Baldessari. I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971 MoMA Learning Conceptual Art Theme.

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Page 1: Conceptual Art. John Baldessari. I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971 MoMA Learning Conceptual Art Theme.

Conceptual Art

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John Baldessari. I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971

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Language and Art

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Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965.

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John Baldessari. I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971

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Let’s compare each artist’s approach to making art.

MoMA What is Modern Art?

Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965. John Baldessari. I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971

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John Baldessari. What Is Painting. 1966–68.

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“I think the wonderful irony about this piece is that it's text. But in fact it is a painting, because it's done with paint on canvas. So I'm really being very slyly ironic here in saying, ‘Well, this is what painting is.’”

– John Baldessari

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Richard Serra. To Lift. 1967.

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Sol LeWitt and Instruction-based Art

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“The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”

– Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt. Untitled from Squares with a Different Line Direction in Each Half Square. 1971.

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Sol LeWitt. Untitled from Squares with a Different Line Direction in Each Half Square. 1971.

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Outside the Museum

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Daniel Buren. D’une impression l’autre. 1983

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• What are some of the locations where you typically encounter works of art?

• What are the unexpected places where you have seen art?

• How do your reactions to works of art differ in relation to where you encounter them?

• Do you agree or disagree with Buren’s belief that context or location affects the interpretation of a work of art. Why or why not?

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Daniel Buren, Untitled (Wide White Space Gallery Announcements), 1969-1974.

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Gordon Matta-Clark. Bingo. 1974

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“Why hang things on the wall when the wall itself is so much more a challenging medium? A simple cut or series of cuts acts as a powerful drawing device able to redefine spatial situations and structural components.”

– Gordon Matta-Clark

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Let’s compare each artist’s approach to making art.

MoMA What is Modern Art?

Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965.

Gordon Matta-Clark. Bingo. 1974

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Performance into Art

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Marina Abramović. Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present. 2010

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“I think a person who moves into an apartment and puts curtains on the window is also being an artist at that point, you know? There’s something that exists, and you’re trying to see what it would be like if it was another way.”

– Vito Acconci

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Carolee Schneemann. Up to and Including Her Limits. 1973–76.

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