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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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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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In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.
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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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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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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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Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.
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When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.
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If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.
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It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.
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