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'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.
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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.
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I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.
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I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.
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At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.
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I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.
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I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.
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It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.
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I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.
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I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.
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Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.
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Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.
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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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