.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
拍品專文
Painted in 2000, Untitled exemplifies Craig-Martin's iconic graphic style. The vivid colour palette and the heavy outlines used to depict the everyday, seemingly incongruous objects, make this painting so distinctive and identifiable. The composition and arrangement of the objects appears random, and in so doing he collapses preconceived notions of scale, time and space.
Craig-Martin’s preparation and technique also sets him apart. After purchasing his first computer in the 1990s, he stopped producing physical drawings, instead making illustrations on screen. This new approach enabled him to move further away from a naturalistic depiction of an object, and to experiment with its scale, orientation and colour. Craig-Martin built up an extensive collection of individual drawings on his computer, which he would then use to plan a full composition, such as Untitled. The narrative of the painting is unlimited, as associations and connections between the objects can be found by the viewer. For example the pills, cigarettes and bananas might allude to Damien Hirst (Craig-Martin’s former student) and Andy Warhol, whereas the hanging jacket, pencil sharpener, and Alvar Aalto 'Paimio' chair (1931-32) suggest a domestic or studio interior.
Craig-Martin said, ‘My hope in the work is that by bringing certain objects together, you start to see connections, narratives, metaphors between some of them, and then the next one doesn’t fit the pattern, and you have to look again. I try to create as many threads of meaning as possible. But every one of them is at some point denied’ (Michael Craig-Martin: Conference, exhibition catalogue, Waddington Galleries, London, 2000, p. 6).
Craig-Martin’s preparation and technique also sets him apart. After purchasing his first computer in the 1990s, he stopped producing physical drawings, instead making illustrations on screen. This new approach enabled him to move further away from a naturalistic depiction of an object, and to experiment with its scale, orientation and colour. Craig-Martin built up an extensive collection of individual drawings on his computer, which he would then use to plan a full composition, such as Untitled. The narrative of the painting is unlimited, as associations and connections between the objects can be found by the viewer. For example the pills, cigarettes and bananas might allude to Damien Hirst (Craig-Martin’s former student) and Andy Warhol, whereas the hanging jacket, pencil sharpener, and Alvar Aalto 'Paimio' chair (1931-32) suggest a domestic or studio interior.
Craig-Martin said, ‘My hope in the work is that by bringing certain objects together, you start to see connections, narratives, metaphors between some of them, and then the next one doesn’t fit the pattern, and you have to look again. I try to create as many threads of meaning as possible. But every one of them is at some point denied’ (Michael Craig-Martin: Conference, exhibition catalogue, Waddington Galleries, London, 2000, p. 6).