Object
Ship's Dinner Party
Ship's Dinner Party
This scene suggests that life on board a cruise ship is like an earthly paradise: the ideal society in miniature. At the same time, the staged pleasure has a sardonic edge: the viewer is excluded from this scene of power, wealth and social status. Morley painted from postcards and travel brochures, blown up to monumental proportions. The saturated Kodak colours, the white frame with the rounded corners and the blurred elements in the image belie its photographic source. In 1970, Morley brought an end to his Photorealist phase: after perfection, it was now time for imperfection. In his view, the shady side of existence required a more expressionist touch. [text 2024]
- Maker
- Malcolm Morley
- Title
- Ship's Dinner Party
- Dating
- 1966
- Object type
- schilderij
- Object number
- 28880
- Collection
- schilderkunst, beeldende kunst 1850 - heden
- Materials
- doek
- Technique
- magnacolor-acrylverf op doek
- Dimensions
- hoogte 212 cm
- breedte 161 cm
- hoogte (met lijst) 213.5 cm
- breedte (met lijst) 162.5 cm
- diepte (met lijst) 5 cm
- Acquisition
- aankoop door Hedendaagse Kunst-Utrecht (overdracht van HK-U aan CM d.d. 30-11-1989) (1976)
- Associated subjects
- (herkomst)
- Inscriptions and marks
- niet gesign.:
- Notes
- De achtergrond van het schilderij is nog steeds te zien aan boord van het stoomschip Rotterdam. Te zien is de wand met voorstellingen van keramiek uit de Odysee op het B-deck (email. d.d. 28 nov. 2011 van particulier).
- Rights
- Collectie Centraal Museum Utrecht © The estate of Malcolm Morley
- Documentation
- Op scherp: Fotorealisme nader bekeken / In Focus: A closer look at photorealism, Hanneke Grootenboer, Esmee Postma, met een bijdrage van Linda Nochlin, WBOOKS (Zwolle, 2024) Centraal Museum (Utrecht, 2024), 128 p.
- Amerikaans fotorealisme = Amerikanischer Fotorealisme = American Photorealism : de verzameling = die Sammlung = the collection: Museum Hedendaagse Kunst Utrecht, [tekst Wouter Kotte], Museum Hedendaagse Kunst (Utrecht, 1988) Stadtmuseum, Ratingen (Ratigen), 104 p.
- Artificial : figuracions contemporànies, concepció José Lebrero Stals. J. Librero Stals (concept), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Barcelona, 1998), 125 p.
- Beeldende kunst 1850-2001, Marja Bosma, Centraal Museum (Utrecht, 2001), 2 dl. (754 p., 1 CD-rom)
- A history of modern art : painting - sculpture - archtecture, H.H. Arnason, Thames and Hudson (Londen, 1969), 663 p.
- Malcolm Morley : itineraries, J.-C. Lebensztejn, Reaktion Books (London, 2001), 256 p.
- Malcolm Morley 1965-1995, coord. cat. Asuncion Cabrera, Casilda Mora, Fundacion La Caixa (Madrid, 1995), 156 p.
- Malcolm Morley [1993], conception Catherine Grenier, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne (Parijs, 1993) Ed. ARPAP, 312 p.
- Malcolm Morley in full colour, Sarah Whitfield, Hayward Gallery (Londen, 2001), 150 p.
- Malcolm Morley. Paintings 1965-1982, [ed.by. Nicholas Serota ; with an intr. by Michael Compton], Whitechapel Art Gallery (Londen, 1983), 80 p.
- United States of America, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo (São Paulo, 1967/68)
- This is America : visies op de Amerikaanse droom, red. Meta Knol, Pauline Terreehorst, Meulenhoff (Amsterdam, 2006), 206 p.
- Malcolm Morley : the art of painting, by Bonny Clearwater, Museum of contemporary art, Miami (Miami, c. 2005), 80 p.
- artecontexto : arte cultura nuevos medios = art culture new media, director & editor: Alicia Murria, contributors: Carola Streul ...[et al.], VEGAP (Madrid, 2006), 156 p.
- Art as likeness, with a note on Post Pop Art, L. Alloway, (Arts Magazine, Aflevering: 7; 41, 1987), p. 34-39
- Bilanz der Katastrophen, H. Pietsch, (Art : das Kunstmagazin, Jaargang: 2001, Aflevering: 7, 2001-07), p. 78-80
- Disasters in the sandbox, G. Indiana, (Art in America : an illustrated magazine, Aflevering: 5; 72, 1984), p. 112-123
- Hedendaagse Kunst-Utrecht. Opkomst en ondergang van een gemeentelijk educatief project, Christina Hosman, (Jong Holland, Aflevering: 3; 12, 1996), p. 14-25
- 'La Caixa' muestra en Madrid los aviones, barcos y catástrofes del pintor Morley, Miquel Angel Trenas, (La Vanguardia, 1995-09-20)
- Malcolm Morley: For me the greatest abstract painter is Velazquez or Piero della Francesca, N. Dimitrijevic, (Flash Art, Aflevering: -; 142, 1988), p. 76-80
- More than a maverick, B. Adams, (Art in America : an illustrated magazine, 2001 (december)), p. 67-73
- The real painting and the artificial. Painting of the new environment, W.C. Seitz, (Art in America : an illustrated magazine, Aflevering: 6; 60, 1972), p. 58-72
