conceptual art

The 'obsessive drawing' behind the conceptual art

Dublin-born artist Michael Craig-Martin, most famous for his 'An Oak Tree' installation, talks about the precision drawings which form the basis of his paintings and conceptual work

By Matilda Battersby

"The biggest incentive for doing art is the desire to see something, and the only way to see it is to do it, because nobody else is going to do it."(Michael Craig-Martin)

Michael Craig Martin is a contempory Artist who mixes observational work with a bright slightly abstracted style influenced by Pop Art and Patrick Caulfield


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