Michael Craig-Martin review – one style fits all

Royal Academy, LondonNo everyday object is safe as the veteran artist and YBA mentor deploys his signature graphic technique over and over again in this 60-year-spanning retrospectiveMichael Craig-Martin’s pictures are as bright and as boring as he wants them to be. That is his curious wager. Everyday objects reduced to graphic outlines, they are as banal as the ladders, corkscrews, buckets and phones they depict, but laid out across flat planes of dazzling cobalt, emerald, yellow and ceri