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It contains reproductions of Morley's most significant works, a critical essay by Sarah Whitfield, a new and illuminating interview with the artist by art critic Martin Gayford, as well as a chronology of the artist's life and career. .00May 2001 Malcolm Morley, winner of the first Turner Prize in 1984, is an artist whose work resists classification. Credited as the initiator of two significant and very different movements - Photo-Realism in the 1970s, and Neo-Expressionism in the 1980s - Morley's forty-year career has been distinguished by great technical virtuosity and a commitment to pushing painting to its limits. Inspired by film and advertising, by ancient myths and psychoanalysis, by old and modern masters, Morley's imagery is a form of highly-charged drama that has no equivalent in the art of our time. |
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. It covers his entire career to date, from his beginnings in England, through his receipt of the Turner Prize in 1984, to his 1999 statement that he was going to repaint all his pictures. Born and trained in Britain but resident in America since 1958, Morley is best known as an exponent of Superrealism, his explorations of which were inspired by printed media. Superrealism represents only one aspect of Morley's career, however. As his technique became increasingly free in the 1970s, he began to introduce so-called 'found' objects into his work. |
. It covers his entire career to date, from his beginnings in England, through his receipt of the Turner Prize in 1984, to his 1999 statement that he was going to repaint all his pictures. Born and trained in Britain but resident in America since 1958, Morley is best known as an exponent of Superrealism, his explorations of which were inspired by printed media. Superrealism represents only one aspect of Morley's career, however. As his technique became increasingly free in the 1970s, he began to introduce so-called 'found' objects into his work.
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Through work which is autobiographical, enotionally charged and visually complex, this exhibition charts the development of an intensely individual vision over a period of 40 years. Held during the year of the artist's 70th birthday it brings together around 50 paintings, models and holograms, many of which have never been seen in the UK. The show opens with a series of abstract paintings which introduce one of Morley's most enduring themes, the sea. These are followed by his celebrated 'Superrealist' paintings of the 1960s, a group of works that first established him as a painter of remarkable technical virtuosity. Inspired by travel posters and postcards, these works played a crucial role in the visual culture of their time. |
A site I really like: http://www.artincontext.org/artist/m/malcolm_morley/