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  Malcolm Morley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Malcolm Morley (born June 7, 1931) is a British-born artist now living in the United States.
In the 1970s, Morley's work began to be more expressionist, and he began to incorporate collage into his work.
Malcolm Morley is represented by Sperone Westwater, New York.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malcolm_Morley   (324 words)

  
 Malcolm-Morley.com - News
Malcolm is utterly delighted with the packaging, which includes some recoloured pics, a potted history of the album from Phil McMullen, and a note from Malcolm himself.
Malcolm still has to check the CD masters, and get the artwork finalised, but as revealed here a couple of years back, the original Rick Griffin cover will be used.
Malcolm thoroughly enjoyed his brief appearance at the Enterprise last month, and as Richard Treece continues to nurse a poorly hand, Malc will be back again on Monday June 16.
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 Malcolm Morley Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Malcolm Morley was born in London in 1931.
By the early 1980s Malcolm Morley was so well established as a leading Neo-Expressionist that he was the first winner of the prestigious Turner Prize in London (in 1984).
Towards the close of the 1980s, Morley returned to his early motif repertoire of ships and planes, which now figured in large-scale installations that were a combination of paintings and mobiles.
www.malcolmmorley.com   (422 words)

  
 Morley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Morley refers to a popular brand of guitar effects pedals manufactured by Morley Pedals.
Morley is also the name of a fictional brand of cigarettes seen in several different films and television shows.
Morley is also a common family name in English-speaking countries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morley   (130 words)

  
 Malcolm Morley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Morley was born in north (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
He had a troubled childhood, and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in (Click link for more info and facts about Wormwood Scrubs) Wormwood Scrubs (A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment) prison.
In the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s, Morley's work began to be more (An artist who is an adherent of expressionism) expressionist, and he began to incorporate (A paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image) collage into his work.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/malcolm_morley.htm   (258 words)

  
 ART OF THE 70'S: Morley
Born in London, Malcolm Morley studied at the Royal College of Art, moving to America in 1958.
Morley first became known in the mid-sixties for his realistically rendered ocean-liners, meticulously copied from photographs.
Morley is unique among photorealist artists in his ability to insert vivid emotion and a lively intelligence into a set format.
www.niagara.edu /cam/art_of_70s/Artists/morley.html   (451 words)

  
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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.
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.
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.
www.angelfire.com /art/klonorg/307/morley.html   (431 words)

  
 Malcolm Morley Biography
Even after adopting looser, more expressionist brushwork in the early 1970s, Morley remained committed to the conceptual approach to painting that had characterized his Photorealist works, with their focus on the process of painting.
In the early 1970s Morley's interest in the life and work of van Gogh as representative of the myth of the romantic artist led him to shoot 11 hours of film as part of a project called The Discipline of Vincent, the Ballroom Dancer.
In 1984 Morley was the first recipient of the Turner Prize administered through the Tate Gallery in London.
www.mbergerart.com /morley/about.htm   (768 words)

  
 Malcolm Morley Library
Malcolm Morley had a particular interest in theatre history and the library reflects this with many histories of individual theatres and local studies, including Morley's final book: Margate and its Theatres, 1730-1965, published in 1966.
Malcolm Morley was born in London and initially moved to the United States to pursue his theatrical career.
Morley maintained an interest in theatrical research throughout his professional life, and as well as his work on London theatre history, he wrote a series of articles for the Dickensian on dramatisations of Dickens' novels made for the stage.
www.ull.ac.uk /historic/morley.shtml   (375 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The artist Malcolm Morley first got known in the middle of the sixties for his super-realistic paintings of ocean-liners and was soon regarded as the initiator of the photo-realistic movement.
The painted battle planes with their highlighted famous names are used by Morley as archetypes for (the dream of) modernism in general and modern art, in particular.
Besides the "Picture Planes", Malcolm Morley is showing on the first floor of the gallery a set of four hologrammes.
www.xavierhufkens.com /press2000_morley.htm   (550 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Malcolm Morley (Itineraries) by Jean Cl Lebensztejn
The controversial artist Malcolm Morley is the subject of this lavishly illustrated book, the first title in a major new series from Reaktion featuring contemporary artists.
The first comprehensive study of Morley's career, it covers his beginnings in England through his receipt of the Turner Prize in 1984-to his decision in 1999 to repaint all his pictures.
Morley is distinguished by his ongoing ability to reinvent himself.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-1861890834-0   (522 words)

  
 artnet.com Magazine Features - Against Interpretation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Morley's richly hued paintings, meticulously reconstructed from magazine photographs on an especially tiny grid, show us Sammy Sosa striking out and two cowboys, of the Dallas variety, bringing down a buccaneer, from Tampa Bay.
Morley is a bohemian Brit, so beguiled Lawrence Weiner, dressed in a scarlet leather motorcycle jacket, that he knocked a vase of flowers all over Tracy Williams' desk.
Malcolm Morley, "The Art of Oil Painting," May 5-June 25, 2005, at Sperone Westwater, 415 West 13th Street, New York, N.Y. Judy Ledgerwood, "Spring Fever," May 5-June 24, 2005, at Tracy Williams, Ltd., 313 bis West 4th Street, New York, N.Y. is co-author of Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula (Smart Art Press).
www.artnet.com /Magazine/features/cfinch/finch5-17-05.asp   (514 words)

  
 Intelligencer: May 11, 1998
Malcolm Morley, whose well-regarded paintings depict warships, planes, bloody battlefield scenes, and crashes, seems to court combat in his financial affairs as well.
Morley, who left the Pace Gallery for Mary Boone in the early nineties, has just signed with Angela Westwater, who says she’s “thrilled” to work with the “real painter’s painter.” Insiders suggest that Boone might be just as thrilled to be rid of the artist.
While one art-world insider says that Morley was “upset” that his former dealer sent his work to auction, another source insists that she had to sell the paintings “to settle the debt” Morley had with her gallery.
newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/2675   (1608 words)

  
 HELP YOURSELF
Malcolm Morley remembers that the whole thing was done in three or four all-night sessions, after which they came straight out and went to Holland to do some gigs.
Morley had by now sunken into one of his periodic morasses of self-doubt, and as disillusionment spread through the band outside interests began to attract their attention.
Malcolm Morley's last recorded excursion was some studio tracks and a TV appearance for Kirsty McColl in 1981.
www.terrascope.org /helps.html   (4435 words)

  
 Get Ready to ROCK! Review of CD album by rock band Help Yourself featuring Malcolm Morley
In 1973 the band holed up in the Oxford countryside where according to band mainman Malcolm Morley 'I was scraping the barrel for new material'.
Opener 'Light Your Way' and 'Grace' demonstrate Morley's talent for a tune whilst 'Romance In A Tin', a reworking of an earlier solo track (included on the Hux 2002 reissue 'Lost And Found'), and 'Willow' is also a standout.
Morley is an excellent songwriter and this album sounds convincing, spanning a thirty year chasm with ease.
www.getreadytorock.com /reviews/help_yourself.htm   (332 words)

  
 Malcolm Morley Online
Malcolm Morley at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Gemini G.E.L. prints
Haunting collisions of imagery: a retrospective of the cool, violent paintings of Malcolm Morley, article by Robert Hughes
All images and text on this Malcolm Morley page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/morley_malcolm.html   (260 words)

  
 Malcolm Morley's The Art of Oil Painting - New York Magazine Art Review
Malcolm Morley could be the most underrated old-timer in the art world.
Morley is a trickster, a kind of double agent.
At the Sperone Westwater gallery, Morley is exhibiting a series of new paintings based upon digital photographs of sports scenes or catastrophes, such as the collapse of a building.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/art/reviews/12050   (893 words)

  
 Art in America: More than a maverick: a 40-year Malcolm Morley retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London presented ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This was the challenge that confronted Sarah Whitfield in curating "Malcolm Morley: In Full Colour," a slim, trim retrospective with a neo-'60s zing to it that was on view last summer at the Hayward Gallery in London.
Born in 1931 in London (but since 1958 a resident, and since 1990 a citizen, of the United States), Morley is one of the great wild men of modern art.
Morley's work is heftier and more rewarding, on the level of pure intellectual gamesmanship, than I first realized in the '80s.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_12_89/ai_80747831   (1173 words)

  
 Tate Britain | Turner Prize History | Artists: Malcolm Morley
Morley's work combines autobiographical, mythical and emotional content, with a painting style influenced not only by Cézanne but also a range of twentieth century art movements, including Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.
Malcolm Morley was born in London, England in 1931.
Morley was the first artist to win the Turner Prize, in 1984.
www.tate.org.uk /britain/turnerprize/history/morley.htm   (156 words)

  
 Harry Morley ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Malcolm Morley - The General 1974 Oil and mixed media The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Malcolm Morley was born in 1931 in North London.
biblio.com - Wanderer in Rome, with 16 illustrations in colour and a map by Harry Morley, and 36 reproductions from...
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 Hux Records - Malcolm Morley - original member of Sam Apple Pie and Help Yourself - CD album called Lost And Found
Malcolm Morley was an original member of Sam Apple Pie, before forming Help Yourself, who recorded 4 superb albums between 1971 and 1973.
These master tapes were lost for over 25 years and were unearthed recently by Ian Gomm (who also produced the album) and are now released here for the first time.
Its release is another step back towards the public eye for a songwriter whose melancholic poetry can plumb the very depths of the human soul as movingly as other more recognised troubadours such as Gram Parsons or Nick Drake.
www.huxrecords.com /cdsales34.htm   (216 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Malcolm Morley
June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining.
Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, and other functions where sturdiness is required.
The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Malcolm-Morley   (776 words)

  
 Edgewise - Milazzo
The author scrutinizes these three periods through his theory of the incommensurable which attempts to locate and explain — and which reflects Malcolm Morley’s own efforts to explore — the discrepancies that exist between the artist’s subconscious and his well-known grid technique.
Or is he the blindman Malcolm Morley encountered as a young boy of five or six long ago along the boardwalk in a seaside town on the English Channel in 1930’s?
They want to see Caravaggio’s misdeeds in Malcolm Morley because what they really want to see is a form or level of painting that is as defiant and definite in our time as Caravaggio’s was in his.
www.edgewisepress.com /morley.htm   (502 words)

  
 Morley, Henry on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As editor of Morley's University Library, Cassell's National Library, and other series, he produced low-priced editions of literary classics.
More than a maverick: a 40-year Malcolm Morley retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London presented the self-styled "wild man" as a controlled, steadily evolving painter whose work reflects diverse but ultimately...
Morley put to sword as Field do the double.(News)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Morley-H1.asp   (316 words)

  
 Malcolm Morley (1931 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Morley was the first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984.
This award was controversial because it was given to him for his contribution to British art, but Morley had resided in New York since 1958.
James Peller Malcolm, An Historical Sketch of the Art of Caricaturing by J. Malcolm (London: Longmanä, 1813), 1813
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 Willson's Wonderful Website - The Man Pages
With Deke back and also with the multi talented Malcolm Morley in the line up, the band settled down to record their 7th Studio album - Rhino's Wino's and Lunatic's and there was one main departure from previous albums for this recording.
When the album was released, it also charted, entering on the 25th May 1974 and reaching No. 24 during a stay of four weeks, and in order to further promote the album another UK tour ensued.
On the 5th July 1974, after a festival gig at Buxton, Malcolm announced he was leaving, a decision that came as no surprise to anybody as Malcolm had become more and more remote from the band.
homepage.ntlworld.com /willsont/Man/man_biog_pt4.htm   (1304 words)

  
 Malcolm Morley - 'Painter's Floor'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An American painter born in England in 1931, Malcolm Morley’s initial notoriety came in the 1960s when he was painting realistically rendered ocean-liners that were meticulously copied from photographs.
In this painting, Morley has produced a precise copy of Pollock’s expressionist paint trails left by the artist years ago.
By rendering these traces of Pollock’s artistic energy with the cool detachment of a photo realist painter, Morley asks us to consider the act of painting as springing from both creative impulse and painterly intelligence.
www.albrightknox.org /acquisitions/acq_2000/Morley.html   (241 words)

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