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gilbert & george
Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore are two artists who work together as the collaborative art duo Gilbert & George. They are known for their distinctive and highly formal appearance and manner in performance art, and also for their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks. The artists met as students while studying sculpture at St Martins School of Art during the Swinging Sixties. They soon became lovers and began creating art together- ‘two people, one artist’- adopting the concept of ‘living sculptors’ that they established not only in their art but in their daily lives, making their entire existence become the a piece of art itself.
visual elements
performance art
manipulated photos
saturated color
self portrait
in their words
Gilbert & George place themselves, their thoughts and their feelings at the centre of their art, and almost all of the images they use are gathered within walking distance of their home in London’s East End. Yet their pictures capture a broad human experience, encompassing an astonishing range of emotions and themes, from rural idylls to gritty images of a decaying London; from fantastical brightly-coloured panoramas to raw examinations of humanity stripped bare; from sex advertisements to religious fundamentalism.
themes in their work
related artists
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