Micheal Craig Martin

Michael Craig Martin

Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin in 1941 and educated in the United States, where he studied at Yale University. He returned to Europe in the mid-1960s and was a key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists. As a tutor at Goldsmith's College from 1974-1988 and 1994-2000, he had a significant influence on two generations of young British artists. Throughout his career Craig-Martin has explored the aesthetic and linguistic character of everyday, designer and iconic ‘art-historical' objects which he has realized through a variety of media including paintings, sculpture, prints and, most recently, computer animations.

My opinion on his art work is I like the way he uses everyday objects and makes them really stand out by either the different sizes or the positioning with varies different objects on the paper. The way he focuses on one or two objects and puts them in the foreground whilst having the rest of the objects in the background. The strong use of block colours really makes the picture look sharp and gives it some kind of meaning. An example would be the painting he did of the green and light pink safety pin being in the foreground usually this object isn’t seen as important but in this picture it’s the main focuses whist having the blue ladder in the background as well as the lilac lockers.