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- Maloney practises deliberately "bad" painting, where images (mainly figures) are achieved with apparently inept draughtsmanship and crude painting. Through his expressionistic style, strong colours, and humorous subject matter, Maloney's paintings record everyday experiences and moments of awkward intimacy.
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Maloney paints 30-somethings in a style that is smart-casual; layered references to art history patched together in faux-naïf. Rendered with all sincerity, Maloney injects a little bit of tragedy into PC-inspired happiness.
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Exhibition. Martin Maloney (born 1961) is a contemporary English artist. Paintings feature genre scenes of idle youth in the "Bad Painting" style of the 1980s. Maloney was also central to the promotion of "Young British Art" through his writing and by curating various shows.
Through his expressionistic style, strong colours, and humorous subject matter, Maloney's paintings record everyday experiences and moments of awkward intimacy. He often incorporates references to art history, from Vermeer to Georg Baselitz .
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- Realism. Realism, in which the subject of the painting looks much like the real thing rather than being stylized or abstracted, is the style many people think of as "true art."
- Painterly. The Painterly style appeared as the Industrial Revolution swept Europe in the first half of the 19th century. Liberated by the invention of the metal paint tube, which allowed artists to step outside the studio, painters began to focus on painting itself.
- Impressionism. Impressionism emerged in the 1880s in Europe, where artists such as Claude Monet sought to capture light, not through the detail of realism, but with gesture and illusion.
- Expressionism and Fauvism. Expressionism and Fauvism are similar styles that began to appear in studios and galleries at the turn of the 20th century. Both are characterized by their use of bold, unrealistic colors chosen not to depict life as it is, but rather, as it feels or appears to the artist.
The cool of his earlier door paintings gave way to a funky new style, teasingly mixing abstraction and figuration, the highbrow and the low.
- Martin Maloney
Jan 6, 2023 · Victor Maloney' style sits within the Naive Art school of painting but with a difference: it is not simple and certainly not unsophisticated. There is no childlike simplicity of execution and vision as seen in many naive works.
Maloney is known for painting urban and suburban landscapes in quick gestural strokes often created spontaneously in situ or from memory. The lack of detailed studies and use of heavy, often crudely formed figuresis Maloney’s way of expressing the chaotic nature of the urban landscape and society.
