Martin Maloney defines his works as a tribute to ordinary people, conducting a social study of the world around him. In the caricature and sometimes absurdity of his works lies an accurate sense of our time. At the same time, his work is not just a sketchy survey of modern life. It is rather a contemporary adaptation of genre and traditions of portrait painting peculiar to such classics of world art history as Poussin, Watteau, and Vermeer.