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Morley, Malcolm

Born: 1931 AD
Currently alive, at 77 years of age.

Nationality: British
Categories: Painters

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1931 - Born in north London on the7th of June.

1955-1957 - He studied art first at the Camberwell School of Arts and then at the Royal College of Art, where his fellow students included Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach.

1956 - He saw an exhibition of contemporary American art at the Tate Gallery, and began to produce paintings in an abstract expressionist style.

1958 - A year after leaving the Royal College, Morley moved to New York City, 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

1970 - Morley's work began to be more expressionist, and he began to incorporate collage into his work.

1984 - Morley won the inaugural Turner Prize.

1990 - He returned again to a more precise photo-realist style, often reproducing images from model aeroplane kits on large.






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