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Michael Craig-Martin depicts everyday items with a nuanced simplicity that exposes the tensions between objects and their representation. His work is distinguished by exceptional draftsmanship, vibrant color, and uninflected line; intensely visual, it is rooted in an exploration of the relationships between perception, language, and meaning.
Past Present features new prints by Michael Craig-Martin (b. 1941), which pay homage to some of his favourite artists and artworks, including paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Piero della Francesca, Georges Seurat, Caravaggio and Diego Velázquez.
Michael Craig-Martin is an Irish Conceptual artist. Frequently working in candy-colored paintings of text and everyday objects, Craig-Martin’s practice is both varied and playful. Among his best-known works is An Oak Tree (1973), which consists of a glass of water placed on a bracketed glass ledge accompanied by a text asserting that the ...
• Michael Craig Martin uses ordinary household objects to create quirky compositions, often with many objects all overlapping one another, • When he chooses his objects, he picks the ones he thinks of as iconic: instantly recognisable and often symbolic of different genres or different aspects of people's lives.
18 de jun. de 2015 · Craig-Martin has of course moved on from his minimalist-inspired 1970s output, having turned primarily to painting in the ’90s when he embarked on the trajectory toward his now-recognizable, flat-planed, jewel-toned canvases. The Summer Exhibition is always a riot of color, and in this it is in harmony with Craig-Martin’s mature work.
26 de abr. de 2015 · Michael Craig-Martin’s An Oak Tree, 1973: It was one of those rare occasions when it said everything I wanted to say.’ You say in your new book, On Being an Artist, that it is as important now ...
Né à Dublin en 1941, Michael Craig-Martin est incontestablement l’une des figures les plus influentes de l’art britannique contemporain. Sa famille part s’installer à Washington, D.C., aux États-Unis, quand il est encore enfant. Il commence à peindre alors qu’il étudie la littérature anglaise et l’histoire à l’Université Fordham de New York (1959). Sa passion le...
