Miklos Legrady - Conceptual works

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cover, New Art Examiner, U.K, March-April issue, 2025

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ARTIST CERTIFICATES
acrylic and inkjet on canvas size variable,
20" x 16" - 50.8cm x 40.64cm
to 48" x 36" - 121.92cmcm x 91.44cmcm

The Artist Certificate series explores the meaning of conceptual art,
taking a minimalist approach, but it's complicated.

In a 1967 issue of Artforum, Sol LeWitt published his legendary "Sentences & Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, updating Hegel's concept of the spirit of the times, the Zeitgeist. Hegel stated in his Introduction to Aesthetics, that work which does not adhere to the ideas of its time has no value, but then he added that the spirit of the work is more important than its craft. But what if the spirit of the times is MAGA? Then divergence has great value. Also, spirit without craft is juvenilia.

Hegel also needs a rethink. Sol LeWitt was to prove Hegel wrong. First he echoed him when LeWitt said that in conceptual art, the idea was dominant while the execution was but perfunctory. Then he was deeply disappointed onr seeing perfunctory executions of his own work. (laughter) Sol LeWitt eventually admitted there is a dramatic difference between having an idea and making a work of art. We all have ideas but few make art; many have insights they lack the skill to realize

One can play an instrument, paint pictures, or dance, yet never be an artist. Not if the work isn't good enough. One needs to learn the skills that advance their vocabulary to the breath of their vision. Look at the art of painting, or the art of poetry. They mean something better than ordinary paintings or adequate poems, which are good but not that good. Garden gnomes and the cement angels on church steps are sculpture, but they are not the art of sculpture. Everyone has ideas. Skill or mastery, not so much.

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