Discover Artist: Michael Craig-Martin
BACK TO ART AND DESIGN*born in 1941 in Dublin, lives and works in London
Early on Michael Craig-Martin started dealing with the questions about the essence of art, the presentatin and the authorship as well as the role of the observer.
Two things were very important to him from the start with regard to renaissance paintings: „First the development of highly complex visual language where observation skills and fantasy have to merge with craftmanship and realism. Secondly the exceptional close interactions between artist and public. (Michael Craig-Martin). Right form the beginning his conceptual artistry led to a visual language whose overwhelming lettering and clear legibility as well as the formal content complexity symbolizes our world in an ideal manner.
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Michael Craig-Martin has been concerned with fundamental questions about the nature of art, representation, authorship and the role of the viewer since his early days as an artist.
As with Renaissance painting, two things were particularly important to the artist, even in his early work: “Firstly, the development of a highly complex visual language in which observation and imagination merge into a seamless synthesis of artistry and realism, and secondly, the exceptionally close and direct contact and interaction between artists and their audience”. (Michael Craig-Martin). From early conceptual beginnings, his path led him to a visual language whose overwhelming symbolism, clear legibility and complexity of form and content symbolise our world in an ideal way.
