This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in London, England, Malcolm Morley became a photo-realist painter of subjects
that he did in a mocking tone to rail against the seriousness with
which people took them. He experimented with many mediums and styles
including expressionist abstraction and figurative. He is known as a
colorful character with many stories circulating about him including
brief jail sentences for carousing and rages that led to mass
destruction in his studio.
He studied at the Royal College of
Art from 1954 to 1956 and moved to New York City in 1958. During the
1970s, he pursued a variety of styles and mediums, and in the 1980s
settled on the photo-real style, taking subject matter from such
diverse sources as the Great Masters and postcards.
In 1984, he earned the Turner Prize for Art from the Tate Gallery. His home and studio have been on Long Island.
Source:
Ronald Pisano, Long Island Landscape Painting
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Malcolm Morley was born in London, England in 1931. He studied at
the Royal Academy of Art from 1954 to 1956, and in 1958 he moved to New
York City. He pursued a variety of styles and media, and in the
1980s he settled on the photo-real style.
He became a
photorealist painter of subjects that he did in a mocking tone to rail
against the seriousness with which people took them. He
experimented with many mediums and styles including expressionist
abstraction. He is known as a colorful character with many
stories circulating about him including brief jail sentences for
carousing and rages that led to mass destruction in his studio.
Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Sources include:
From the internet, AskART.com
Mark Stevens in Newsweek Magazine, January 9, 1984
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Biography from Rogallery.com:
| Born in London, England, he became a photorealist painter of subjects that he did in a mocking tone to rail against the seriousness with which people took them. He experimented with many mediums and styles including expressionist abstraction and figurative. He is known as a colorful character with many stories circulating about him including brief jail sentences for carousing and rages that led to mass destruction in his studio.
He studied at the Royal College of Art from 1954 to 1956 and moved to New York City in 1958. During the 1970s, he pursued a variety of styles and mediums and in the 1980s settled on the photo-real style, taking subject matter from such diverse sources as the Great Masters and postcards.
In 1984, he earned the Turner Prize for Art from the Tate Gallery. His home and studio have been on Long Island. |
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