Sunday 12 February 2012

Perceptual vs. Conceptual Art

For what i've known so far, everything that we see through pictures, drawings, items or what we can see with our eyes can be called arts, just in different ways. Two of the most common used art movements are the conceptual art and the perceptual art. Both these art movements are not realism as in context, perceptual arts are more to the outcome of a sensory whereas conceptual arts are the outcome of a thought.

Perceptual arts can also be known as perceptualism which means that the arts itself contain the mixture of philosophical explorations of art and psychology elements. Most perceptual arts are created in a form of multi-sensory experiential for the observer to interpret it in their own ways. These are few examples of the perceptual arts.
                                                  Artwork by: John Aslanidis


                                                 Artwork By: Olafur Eliasson


                                               Artwork By: Anonymous


Conceptual Art can also be said as the contemporary version of arts.
~In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. ~ Sol LeWitt

It is different than the concept art which is created only to display an idea whereas the conceptual arts concerns on the principle of the idea and then then objects. It also means that the artwork came from the ideas and later on displayed with variety of ways based on negation of aesthetic fundamental.
Examples of conceptual art:
                                                Artwork By: Luis Camnitzer

                                                 Artwork By: Gabriel Orkozos

                                                      Artwork Name: Duchamp's urinal











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