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- Their artistic collaboration, spanning more than thirty-five years, has spawned a huge body of work that includes performance pieces (using their own bodies as "living sculptures"), drawings, and, since the 1970s, multipart photo pieces.
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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.
Mostly identically dressed in formal tweed suits, Gilbert and George's genteel, ordered appearance and ascetic lifestyle is curiously at odds with their riotous and often garish works of art. Gilbert & George are iconoclasts, attacking the beliefs that art holds most dear.
Jun 24, 2015 · Gilbert & George similarly indiscriminately created their art across all media (though referring to all of their work as sculpture): Postal Sculptures, Magazine Sculptures, Charcoal on Paper Sculptures, Drinking Sculptures, and Video Sculptures.
Gilbert & George, British collaboration between Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore, whose often humorous insertion of themselves into their art was an important chapter in postwar British art. For The Singing Sculpture, the duo dressed in suits, covered their faces in bronze powder, and sang a Depression-era tune.
Gilbert Prousch, sometimes referred to as Gilbert Proesch (born 17 September 1943), and George Passmore (born 8 January 1942) are artists who work together as the collaborative art duo Gilbert & George. They are known for their formal appearance and manner in performance art, and for their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.
The art of Gilbert & George is based upon feelings, thoughts, and intellect. Gilbert & George are a total modern independent visionary artist, alone. The vision of Gilbert & George is firstly their singular and particular way of seeing, experiencing and celebrating life.
While the art world around them in the late 1960s and early 1970s was largely characterized by Pop, Minimalist, and Conceptual art, Gilbert & George developed a wholly unique vision. Although they created their art in a variety of mediums, they considered everything they did to be sculpture: Postal Sculptures , Magazine Sculptures , Charcoal on ...
