Sir Michael Craig-Martin @ The RA
A brief guide to my favourite pieces from the show at The Royal academy of the arts, London.
As the well curated summer show at the RA by Sir Michael Craig-Martin ended.
I decided take time to spend a weekend looking into the colourful works of his 60 year career.
The galleries were transformed into colourful rooms, with art works carried from walls to an array of works from sculptural, paintings on canvas, metal that brought the space together and a room with conceptual digital art work.
I also decided to spend the rest of the weekend painting one of my own pieces like Sir Michael Craig-Martin, have a look at the end.
Subjects used for the works were inspired by every day objects. As a nature lover, my favourite pieces were the fruit and vegetable paintings on metal board and Acrylic.
The use of different colours to the actual ones made the pieces more interesting with dissection of melon and citrus adding to the composition.
As composition played a huge part. The piece with the watch and the sole of a shoe is simple, yet ads the interlink between time and everyday life for me.
A mirror image composition
The above two pieces - show me how putting various objects together need not be the same.
One of them uses many different kinds of chairs to help bring the piece together.
While the other, the largest painting of his career so far, uses a mirror image with a globe in the centre. Perhaps telling us that the basic objects put to use are the same around the globe.
The show ended with a digital art piece like many other, A minimalistic approach to the digital space was what caught my eye.
There was a lot to take back from the works of Sir Michael Craig-Martin. I look forward to experimenting with colour palettes in my work.
Spending a weekend painting
Sunday : 8:00 am
As inspired I was from the show, I decided put my paints to use. After deciding to paint from one of my pieces from Colour play x Design.
https://www.hariti-london.com/portfolio-2/project-three-8zgh7-hcdwp
Design: My work is an architectural piece, I have used layers to create depth.
Colour Play: Warm tones with a few bright colours.
Painting my piece took a while to be completed, every step was painted to be precise with multiple coatings of paint added.
Completed piece
A closer look at detail
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