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Malcolm Morley
Malcolm Morley (born June 7, 1931) is a British-born artist now
living in the United States.Morley was born in north London. He
had a troubled childhood, and did not discover art until serving
a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison. After release, he
studied art first at the Camberwell School of Arts and then at the
Royal College of Art (1955-1957), where his fellow students included
Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach. In 1956, he saw an exhibition of
contemporary American art at the Tate Gallery, and began to produce
paintings in an abstract expressionist style.
In 1958, a year after leaving the Royal College, Morley moved to
New York City (he has lived there ever since), met Barnett Newman,
and became influenced by him. He painted a number of works at this
time made up of only horizontal black and white bands.
He also met Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and, influenced in
part by them, changed to a photo-realist style (Morley prefers the
phrase super realist). He often used a grid to transfer photographics
images (often of ships) from a variety of sources (travel brochures,
calendars, old paintings) to canvas as accurately as possible, and
became one of the most noted photo-realists.
In the 1970s, Morley's work began to be more expressionist, and
he began to incorporate collage into his work. Many of his paintings
from the mid-70s, such as Train Wreck (1975), depict "catastrophes".
Later in the decade, he began to use his own earlier drawings and
watercolours as the subject for his paintings.In the 1990s he returned
again to a more precise photo-realist style, often reproducing images
from model aeroplane kits on large canvases.
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
the existing paintings.h
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