Concepts involved in the art takes precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns

Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called installations, may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions. In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.

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An important difference between conceptual art and more “traditional” forms of art-making goes to the question of artistic skill.

Although it is often the case that skill in the handling of traditional media plays little role in conceptual art, it is difficult to argue that no skill is required to make conceptual works, or that skill is always absent from them.

It is thus not so much an absence of skill or hostility toward tradition that defines conceptual art as an evident disregard for conventional, modern notions of authorial presence and individual artistic expression.