Michael Craig-Martin

Michael Craig-Martin was born in Ireland in 1941. He grew up and was educated in the United State. he came to Britain on completion of his studies in1966 and has lived and worked here ever since.

His best known works include his large-scale black and white wall drawings, and his intensely coloured paintings, installations and public commissions.

he is well known to have been an influential teacher at Goldsmith College London, and is considered a key figure in the emergence of young British artists in the early 90's.

Here are some of his beautiful works. There are too many, I don't know which one I should choose. Here is the link to his website:http://www.michaelcraigmartin.co.uk/

 

 

They are so beautiful. They are taking your breath away. I copied two of his work. It looks just some simple lines and simple colours. But when I actually do it I start to know how hard it is. Especially with large scales. His colour is so smooth, the lines between each colour are so clear, each of his work is so vivid, they seem all alive. Who ask what art exist for? What can it do? Yes, as a human, you need bread first. And then, what about and "and then". The more I see the artists' work , the more I can feel how appreciated we should be. 

 

Come back to Michael Craig-Martin. I don't know what I suppose to say. His achievements, his techniques, his ideas are so far from I can reach. At this moment, the only thing I am happy with myself is that I can say they are beautiful.

 

Here are my two attempt:

 

I felt ok with these two paintings. But now, put them under Craig-Martin's work......Well, a lot more practise needed!

 

 



Picasso

I recently copied a few Picasso's drawings. Because I need to the PowerPoint, I had to study a bit more about Picasso. Then I found, the more I look into his work, the more I see, the more I like it. At the very beginning when I was introduced to Cubism. I was so confused. I could understand nothings. I don't understand why he wanted draw and paint like that, I couldn't see the beauty, I couldn't understand why now his work worth millions of pounds. I couldn't even tell what can be called art and what can not.

I took the advise and listened a few of Grayson Perry's lecture. There are quite long and some of the words he used were quite hard for me. But yes, I managed to understand what he wants to say and that was really helpful to all my questions.

This is the good thing to be in college. You are not just learning some knowledge, you are also getting those valuable information which allow you to explore more.

Here are the my drawings. To draw them really helped me to understand more about Cubism. There is no way I can know how the ideas came to Picasso's head. But at least I can see they are beautiful. And for such a great artist, it is not just a few months in college can make you understand him and his work. Let's start here!