THE CONCEPT OF MERGING AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS IN THE VISUAL FORMATION OF CONCEPTUAL ART

Abstract

The researcher studied the aspects of the concept of integration and its representations in the visual formation of conceptual art. The importance of the research lies in that it reveals the concept of integration in the products of postmodern arts in general and conceptual art in particular.  The plastic art in its first topic. As for the second topic, it studied conceptual art, the art of the idea. The research community consisted of (80) conceptual works from America and South Africa determined by the time period (1965-1975). The two researchers used the descriptive and analytical approach and reached results in it, including the effects of art.  Conceptual dialectic of time in the mind of the recipient by invoking the past tense and merging it with the present time, predicting the future time, and the merging in the conceptual art at the level of the verbal image in the photographic artistic image provoked the mind of the recipient in a sarcastic way that contained something of attack and ambiguity and conclusions, the most important of which are that conceptual art is a merging of man and nature to provoke the mind of the recipient to reach the idea that is the basis of the conceptual artwork, and that the merging between different arts was evident in conceptual art in controversial ironic formulas.