Gilbert and George met at St. Martin’s School of Art in London in 1967 and quickly become friends, and have worked together ever since. They are most well known for their wall-sized paintings and for walking around in metallic make up as ‘living statues’, (Dangerous Minds). They later stepped up to robot dancing as their ‘living statue’ selves. When they started adding photography into their art, they made photo quilts with photos of controvercial or socially unpleasant things like rotting buildings and homeless people and racist graffiti (Maupin). One of their biggest photography quilts is “Death Hope Life Fear” created in 1984. When AIDS became more commonly known, they began creating prints of themselves standing naked, bodily fluids, and tombstones. “This perspective is fundamental to Gilbert & George’s art: existence as a pathological condition; prognosis, terminal.” (Maupin). They’re more recent works relate to terrorism and religion.
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