Michael Craig-Martin is a British born artist who studied at several schools including Fordham, Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and Yale University. Craig-Martin is mainly seen today as a conceptual and "retrospective" artist, simply taking everyday household objects, such as shoes or chairs and giving them bright, unusual, and "retro" colors. I think that Craig-Martin's work seems extremely simple, just taking everyday objects, enlarging them, and making them unusual colors. Despite this simple alteration of everyday objects, I find Craig-Martin's art extremely appealing and interesting in part due to the everyday objects that he does choose, and the rather large size of the objects as well. I think his technique keeps people coming back because it is a fun kind of art when people can walk around and see a huge pink shoe mixed in among several other off colored everyday objects.
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