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Apr 12, 2024 · Gilbert and George’s 10 commandments for making art in London from putting on pop-ups to embracing the times. The iconic London duo have their say on how to make it in the art world....
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'The work is part of the cycle "The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting" (1971) in which Gilbert & George act as "living sculptures", using their bodies as material and fusing art...
Between 1970 and 1974 they made drawings (referred to as 'Charcoal on Paper Sculptures') and paintings to give a more tangible form to their identity as 'living sculptures'. [13] [14] One of their first notable works of art was a photographic self-portrait of them wearing their trademark suits.
Gilbert & George repudiate the reach and influence of art theory as a means of conceiving, creating, ‘solving’ or ‘explaining’ a work of art. Gilbert & George maintain an ideological opposition to formalistic art theory and the reference of art to the history or theory of art.
Gilbert & George invented and have been constantly developing their own visual language: "the content of mankind is our subject and our inspiration." Using themselves as the primary subject of their art, they first appeared as 'Living Sculpture' in 1969.
Jun 24, 2015 · Since their time as students together at St. Martin’s School of Art, London, in the late 1960s, Gilbert & George aimed to create accessible art in contrast to what they viewed as the elitist and narrow confines of Minimalism and Conceptualism dominant at the time.
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Gilbert & George are among the most provocative artists to have emerged from the British art scene in the late 1960s. Working as a pair and presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures’ they sacrificed their individual identities to art and thus turned the traditional notion of creativity on its head.
