Conceptual Art Image Thread

At the simplest level; I was trying to create image that itself asked the question am I art. Yes there is something there. You need to dim the lights get up close and look at at an angle. You would be surprised what you see.

You might like to guess what you see; a conceptual artist might work that out very quickly!

Thus far, my "conceptual" pieces are a bit more direct or non-cryptic...

Definition:
"Game, set, match". (sports, tennis) An expression commonly used at the conclusion of a tennis match to indicate that a competitor has won. (idiomatic, by extension) An expression indicating finality, announcing that a series of events—usually involving some form of rivalry—has reached a conclusion.

I know I misspelled "Amok"

But I'm convinced it should be spelled "Amuk"

The forbidden fruit



A single, shiny dark red apple as symbol for enticement. Partly posterized photo. Well, this is an awesome apple. Of course we can spoil it with stories, plenty of them exist. If you don't like the story of Snow White, you can choose the biblical one. Though the forbidden fruit in the Book of Genesis is not identified, popular Christian tradition holds that it was an apple. The unnamed fruit of Eden thus became an apple and as a result, also a symbol for knowledge, immortality, temptation, the fall of man and sin. You can have whatever story you like, I'll eat this apple.

Out of the Ashes in LIving Color

This piece signifies the rebirth we are somtimes forced to encounter.

I hear it in the deep heart's core..



Photo composition with images from Merida, Mexico, illustrating the text: "I hear it in the deep heart's core" from "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," by W.B. Yeats. A digital creation made from several photos I took at that time. The image was a top favorite finalist in a prestigious art photography contest.

A symbolic homage to Benjamin Franklin's experiment of flying a kite with a key and discovering electricity. "Science Is The Key" today, may easily represent what needs to happen to overcome our current Covid-19 pandemic crisis.

Fire and Chaos. If you didn't know this was Minneapolis. A vision before the occurrence.

I like to photograph sunburst that look like a bright star and shining over a dark area. Wandering through Ottawa City (Ontario) streets, I was ready to catch the sunlight light coming from behind the columns of a historic arch, when I noticed this lady walking in that direction. I waited for her to come to the right spot and got the picture. She was looking like she was following a star - her star... thus the title. I also made my image as a digital painting for a more vibrant and maybe mysterious and a little surrealistic look and feel. Of course, this is also part of my light and dark series, made in the day of the Fine Art America challenge with the theme "after dark", because after dark, the light is always brighter, right?
* I made this image having in mid the theme "After Dark" given in a challenge at Fine Art America.

At the very beginning of the shut down, 2020, I was angry and frustrated (like most, I guess). I took some black paint and wet the paper and let out my frustrations. After it dried, I took red paint and just made splatter. I think the anger I was trying to convey shows through?

This is a digital painting of a photo from my archives and initially, I made it for the concept of a (dangerous) storm.
I photographed this huge container truck driving in rainstorm on the Trans Labrador Highway, while myself was on the passenger seat in our car in motion. Difficult and dangerous weather to be on the road in this remote region of northeastern Canada, with low visibility, blowing wind and wet slippery pavement.

* However, since it's a container truck, I found it good for the FAA challenge with the theme "Containers", and also, since I took the photo from the inside of the car, I also posted it to the "Inside Out" themed group :)

A multipurpose image :)

More than just a play on the movie title, I envision the transition via gradient revolving about a point as going from the future to the past or the past to the future - all cyclical.

I created this surrealistic type of image to symbolize my feelings about Spain, while visiting this country. I photographed the bull while driving on the country roads in Catalonia (Catalunya), and superimposed it on a landscape with a castle ruin on top, that happened to be at sunset time. I think that the Spanish colors red and yellow, plus the orange and black give the perfect feeling for the place.

Description..........TARMAC - The world at my feet, an experiment in Conceptual Art.....I think!lol. VIVA Anderson
I had a concept about the world, its' condition, and somehow conjured up this to express my thoughts, via my 'expressionism' photography......
of the inside of the BBQ lid/all burnt out!

"After the dark" was the theme/concept of one of the FAA challenges, and even though it was only for one image, I created several, because I loved the subject.
I photographed this covered bridge in the rural area of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, just at the time when two bike riders were passing through and going on the other side into the light. It can be called Light at the end of the tunnel, or light after dark...

Winter Flowers by Martha Tilston contains the following line 'The great thing about winter flowers is they look alive when they're long gone' So that underlying theme here is what in you life has long gone but you maybe have not realise it yet. I could be to do with love, grief or even have a spiritual element.

The image could be lovers; a cross or even just two fading roses.

Faded elegance (or fading glory...)



Digitally altered decorative image of a beautiful once red tulip, now old and fading, symbolizing the passing time that alters everything......in other words, “Change is the only constant in life”, as Heraclitus used to say :)

 

Something's afoot in this House of Uncommons.

 

Some religious people argue that Eva's decision was the most important decision ever made in humankind's history. It is simple - without a famous Eva's decision the humankind just would not exist! ... Here she is at this decisive moment...

"Light at the end" was the theme of a contest I participated in 2011 in another photographic site, and won the First Prize (payed!) :)

I took and edited the photo looking up at the beautiful ceiling of the St. Mary's Cathedral in Ottawa, Canada, showing those windows as the last part of the image

 

Unraveling mysteries in the labyrinths of dream states.

The convolutions and corridors of the mind beckon.

Original design, 3D digital modeling

 

Ephemeral



I took this photo on a beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in a very quick panning, capturing the flying sanderling birds in the foreground, while a kid was playing with the sand and water in the background. It's a conceptual image suggesting the ephemeral things passing through our life, including the time and age...

An imagined depiction of crossing over to "life after life". The concept is depicted by a path to a bridge where the transition begins. The transformation of the soul from the physical body as it departs the restraints of the physical world continues on as it is guided by a white light into the next realm of existence. The perceived horizon is full of beauty and wonderment. The mystery of what lies ahead is the beginning of a new journey into enlightenment.

Everything is possible when you think it is!



- A conceptual digital image based on my original photo I took of a lady (named Peggy), wing walking at the acrobatic flight show in Friedrichshafen, Germany - A demonstration of mind over body performance

* Here is another instance of her in the show:

 

On completing this piece in 1986, my husband & I headed over to one of our favorite restaurants to celebrate.

I told him I was stumped insofar as naming it. He leaned in, smiled, and said "Checkmate."

We were into chess a fair bit at the time.

Original acrylic painting on fine linen canvas, 36" x 30", now remastered for digital prints.

It took me many years to figure out that "LOL" was an acronym for laugh out loud. This was a play on words.

I always strive to have a concept in my art. It is was drives me while painting.

"Load the Palette"



The artist’s muse says “load the palette”. Once the paint has been loaded onto the palette the painting is half done because the hardest part is just starting.
It’s funny because the easiest part is loading the palette, squeezing the paints out of the tubes.
So much more goes into creating a work of art.
Planning the theme, the concept; designing the composition and mood, selecting the colors, the substrate and orientation, mixing the colors; then painting the masterpiece conceived in the mind and the heart of the artist.
So, just do the easy part and “load the palette”!

The selfie the death art by scorpion design. A world where the only image a person makes is their own; and, the only image they look at is their own. Yes the death of art. However, it is more than this; it is about being self centred, so we are not only talking about the death of art. We are talking about the death of community the death of society, the death of hope and the death of the other.

I've put a nature landscape of the Gunpowder Falls (North of Baltimore MD) within the shape of a Native American with headdress profile, symbolizing the native Indians that once inhabited the area.

This image is done with a transparent background so that it may be printed on other items such as t-shirts, blankets, tote bags, etc. Fine Art America also makes it available as a print which is why this shows a black background which I selected.

Dances Of The Monarch - Description: Monarch butterflies are so brilliantly colored. I love the jewel like colors and the beautiful patterns of this butterfly.

I've put a nature landscape of the Gunpowder Falls (North of Baltimore MD) within the shape of an Eagle, symbolizing the Native American who once inhabited the area.

This image is done with a transparent background so that it may be printed on other items such as t-shirts, blankets, tote bags, etc. Fine Art America also makes it available as a print which is why this shows a black background which I selected.

As you may have guessed, one of the objectives is to compose the image with the shape, it's size and location within the image dimensions to help enhance what the object is... in this case emphasizing the head (and legs) to indicate a "Bald Eagle".

 

Selfies — always put me in mind of this thought that came to me a while back.

"Narcissism's gravity: the irresistible pull of a mirror, or a camera." ~ C.Hathaway

 I created this back in 2012, nothing changes so much as it stays the same.     ;)
 
Original 3D digital modeling

I've put a nature landscape of the Gunpowder Falls (North of Baltimore MD) within the shape of a Native American profile, symbolizing the native Indians who once inhabited the area.

This image is done with a transparent background so that it may be printed on other items such as t-shirts, blankets, tote bags, etc. Fine Art America also makes it available as a print which is why this shows a black background which I selected.

Painted Feather Duster

meant to convey the simplicity of the old fashioned ways

I've put a nature landscape of the Gunpowder Falls (North of Baltimore MD) within the shape of a feather, symbolizing the Native American who once inhabited the area. In this version I've also added text... This Land Is Your Land - This Land Is My Land.

This image is done with a transparent background so that it may be printed on other items such as t-shirts, blankets, tote bags, etc. Fine Art America also makes it available as a print which is why this shows a black background.

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Bringing LIGHT to the DARK.

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All the arts represented here, I have not seen any thing about what concept or concepts are behind or based on.
So the title ' conceptual ' sounds Interesting, but meaningless.
In my opinion.
** I can only give you my opinion.
Lol

The old saying a picture is worth a thousand words.
Let the art speaks for itself.

Personally, I'm not always a fan of explaining what my image means, especially since I hope much of it varies between the individuals viewing it. Also, if you need to explain it, why go to the trouble of creating the image. Take what impressions you get from it and your mind will fill in what it needs to. I'd like to think that most of my art has enough cues and clues to allow one to form some kind of impression. It may not always be to your liking but I hope someone will find it interesting.

A vertically formatted capture of the Little Gunpowder Falls (Gunpowder Falls State Park). A capture of two twisted trunk remnants of large trees stretching out toward the river with the sun creating shadows toward the viewer. I added a shadowy figure of a Native American Brave, a transparent silhouette, holding a spear and bow but he's only a spirit of what once lived off the land many years ago.

Well said, Brian. Here’s a Tulip!

I took a copy of my painting Mountain Specter and cut it apart because maybe an earthquake had occurred.

Probably makes very little sense on its own. However, it is part of a sequence of images (a short animation). Collectively they might make a little more sense.

By the way the full title is ''Nightmare in small town America Frame 6''

✨Space Alternator✌🏻🙂

Fahrenheit 451Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury.
''The novel has been the subject of interpretations focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas for change. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature.''
This artwork is about putting an end to us destroying our environment. Many say it is not to late; sadly I disagree. However action now will make a difference and we will to mitigate against some of the consequences of our previous actions.
The link between the two; is that if the freedom to communicate is curtailed; the the freedom to act on such an issue is curtailed.

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