Malcolm Morley.HAYWARD GALLERY"It is much more difficult to make an abstract painting that is real than an abstract painting that is abstract," Malcolm Morley Malcolm Morley (born June 7, 1931) is an English-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. once said. Testing the artist's claim, guest curator Sarah Whitfield focuses this retrospective on the relationship between Morley's abstract art and his better-known representational work. Photorealism photorealism, international art movement of the late 1960s and 70s that stressed the precise rendering of subject matter, often taken from actual photographs or painted with the aid of slides. made him famous, but there are also pure abstractions, and Whitfield has found an obscure collection of these from the early '60s that are inspired both by Abstract Expressionism abstract expressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school. and, she argues, by Morley's fellow Briton J.M.W. Turner. What would that great painter of the sea have thought of Morley's recent maritime scenes, with their oceans and jokey jok·ey also jok·y adj. jok·i·er, jok·i·est Characterized by joking or jokes, especially stale or clumsy jokes: jokey bumper stickers. ships, not to mention those 3-D airplanes flying overhead, festooned with Suprematist insignia? June 15-Aug. 27. |
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