Michael Craig-Martin

🔳🗿Michael Craig-Martin (born 28 August 1941) is an Irish-born contemporary conceptual artist and painter.

A principal figure of British conceptual art, Michael Craig-Martin probes the relationship between objects and images, harnessing the human capacity to imagine absent forms through symbols and pictures. 

In his early work Craig-Martin often incorporated readymades into sculpture and made knowing reference to American Minimalism. 

This interest in semantics, the play between rhetoric and object, continues to be a core theme in his work.

In the 1990s Craig-Martin made a decisive shift to painting and developed his hallmark style of precise, bold outlines demarcating flat planes of intensely vibrant colors.

Through exacting draftsmanship, he uses composition to explore spatial relationships by juxtaposing and layering color.

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