Michael Craig Martin

Michael Craig Martin is born in Dublin (Ireland) in 28 August 1941,his nationality is Irish. Michael Craig Martin was born to Irish parents, his religion is Catholics. Martin does drawing and painting, all his works are colorful and his art is different with any other artist. Craig Martin's style of detached conceptual. Craig Martin's personal life is he had wife Jan Hashey and had one daughter name Jessica Craig Martin. All his pictures are colorful and clean even though many different things in the one picture.               
This is one of the picture of he drawn. I like this picture so i choose this picture to draw because it looks clear and this picture is talking about the world news. When i saw the picture for the first time, it looks colorful with letters. In the middle of the letter it has the world map ball. I looked at this picture about 3 times i can see its talking about news. Also the world is in the middle of it,so i can see that it is talking about world news. He used ten color in the picture. 
The technique he used are very simple, constructed and then painted the color inside the letters.
(Michael Craig Martin's life, Career)
 In 1945 his family moved to Washington D.C, when he was in US he was given a religious education, initially for eight years in a Roman Catholic School run by  nuns, and then in the English benedictine Priory School. After that he gained an interest in art through one of the priests, who was an artist, and was also strongly impressed by a display in Phillips Collection of work by Mark Rothko.
Craig Martin studied in the Colombia where his father had employment for a while. He attended drawing classes given there by artists, then in 1959 attended Fordham University in New York for English Literature and History, while also starting to paint. His parents had no experience about art. 
In 1961, he studied art at the Academies in Paris and in the fall began a painting course at Yale college, where the teaching was strongly influenced by the multidisciplinary experimentation and minimalist theories on color and form.
 In the 1980s, Craig Martin was a tutor at Goldsmiths College Department of Art in 1980s.. He was a significant influence on the emerging 'Young British Artist'  generation including Damien Hirst.
They both are doing conceptual art which int eh concepts or ideas involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetics 'a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty art and taste with the creation' and marterial concern. Philosophy is the study of general problems such as those connected with knowledge, values, reasons mind and language. Damien Hirst. was also helpful in promoting the freeze show to established art world figures. He was a subject for an article in the regarding the mentors of British art, it was entitled schools of thought and described his influence in greater detail.