Sir Michael Craig Martin/Royal Academy

Sir Michael Craig Martin is an Irish artist who trained at Yale School of Art. His schtick is pictorial art – i.e. taking images of every day items like a pencil sharpener or fork, magnifying them and depicting them in vivid colours – normally red and purple.

Whilst his art begs the “What is art?” question posed by Marcel Duchamp when he exhibited a urinal at the Armoury Exhibition of 1913, I would term Craig Martin’s art as more conceptual than intellectual.

It’s the type of colourful tableau that might adorn the office wall of a rich hedge fund owner.

Perhaps I’m being unfair – his treatment of masters like Manet’s Olympia and The Bar at the Folies Bergères are innovative – but whilst I enjoyed the exhibition I had no desire to return.