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conceptual

[kuhn-sep-choo-uhl] / kənˈsɛp tʃu əl /
ADJECTIVE
abstract
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STRONGEST


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Disillusioned by painting around 1913, Duchamp employed these objects to shift art from optical pleasure to conceptual provocation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Thumbing its nose at the blockchain while offering a technodystopic vision of the Freudian death drive, it’s conceptual art with a serious message that refuses to take itself too seriously.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

When she came to “Rooster,” she said, Cristle was a conceptual kernel she teased into a labyrinth.

From Salon • May 11, 2026

“I’d go so far as to say that the Nortons were the glue that sustained the young artists of the time,” said conceptual artist Charles Gaines.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

They respond to the age of exploration and discovery, but only with the intention of preserving and protecting the conceptual apparatus of traditional philosophy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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