If an artist who conceived a work says that it is unfinished and should not be exhibited, it isn't — and shouldn't be.
Though some favoured a coherent frontal viewpoint, however active, Bernini is known to have conceived a work (the Apollo and Daphne) in which the narrative unfolded in details discovered as the viewer walked around the work, beginning from the rear.
Rodin's intent had been to show Balzac at the moment of conceiving a work – to express courage, labor, and struggle.
The traditional image of the child prodigy turned refined drawing-room composer, who could miraculously conceive an entire work in his head before setting pen to paper (always a distortion of the truth), gave way to the image of the serious and painstaking creative artist with acute human insight, whose complex psychology demanded exploration by writers, historians, and scholars.
Cusk said she tends to conceive a piece of work "suddenly and entire, in a single glimpse", upon which she will "immediately make a set of notes that are like a photograph of it: they record, in one frame as it were, what it looked like to me". She then spends months – sometimes years – working out what she has seen in her "glimpse".
I would say my strengths lie in the early stages of conceiving a new work: spinning ideas around my head; looking for the starting point of the next piece I want to produce; asking myself why; carefully plotting and planning what kind of team I will pull together; researching my idea and gathering inspiration to pass on to the collaborators.
We spend a lot of time trying to conceive a villain who will work well in 3D and we need to have a villain who, while his goals are far from admirable, is nonetheless understandable.
Celebrating the art of the atelier is wonderful, but what the atelier is producing should be conceived as a work of contemporary art.
Deleuze Monument a sculpture, an altar, and a library dedicated to Gilles Deleuze was conceived as a work open to visitors twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Sept. 11 Collage When Meridian International Center of Washington issued a call to artists for a show based on reactions to Sept. 11, Marilyn Cohen, a Mount Kisco collage artist, conceived of a work incorporating faces from the New York Times series "Portraits of Grief".
