Malcolm Morley with his 1984 Turner Prize installation
漏 Tate photography
After trying in 1964 to paint a ship from real life Morley turned to听photographs听of ships, which he copied in a meticulous听trompe l鈥檕eil听style with the aid of a grid. These marked the beginning of听Photorealism听in the USA, although Morley preferred the term Super Realism. Replicating the original in an almost mechanical way and conceiving of the painting simply as a coloured surface, Morley undermined the distinction between the abstract and the听figurative.