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If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.
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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There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.
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I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.
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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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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 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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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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I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.
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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
Michael Craig-Martin
The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
Michael Craig-Martin
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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I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.
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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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