Stephen Gilbert
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| - | '''Stephen Gilbert''' ([[15 January]][[1910]]-[[12 January]] [[2007]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Painting|painter]] and [[Sculpture|sculptor]]. He was one of the few British artists to fully embrace the [[avante garde]] movement in Paris in the 1950s. | + | {{Template}} |
| + | '''Stephen Gilbert''' ([[15 January]] [[1910]] - [[12 January]] [[2007]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Painting|painter]] and [[Sculpture|sculptor]]. He was one of the few British artists to fully embrace the [[avant-garde]] movement in Paris in the 1950s. | ||
| - | Gilbert was born in [[Wormit]], in the north-east of [[Fife]], [[Scotland]], of English parents. His father was a commander in the [[Royal Navy]]; his grandfather, Sir [[Alfred Gilbert]] was the [[Art Nouveau]] sculptor of [[Eros]] in [[Piccadilly Circus]].<!--brother, Cecil--> | + | Stephen Gilbert once remarked "The difference between [[erotica]] and [[pornography]] is simple. Erotica is what I like. Pornography is what you like, you pervert!" {{GFDL}} |
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| - | He studied architecture at the [[Slade School of Art]] in London from 1929 to 1932, where he befriended fellow student [[Roger Hilton]]. Gilbert won the Slade Scholarship at the end of his first year, and the principal Sir [[Henry Tonks]] encouraged him to start painting from 1930. He also met sculptor [[Jocelyn Chewett]] at the Slade, and they were married in 1935. | + | |
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| - | He exhibited at the [[Royal Academy]] in 1936, and put on an early solo show in London, at the [[Wertheim Gallery]] in 1938. He moved to [[Paris]] in 1937, where his wife studied under [[Ossip Zadkine]], leaving before the [[World War II|Second World War]]. He failed a medical for military service, and he spent the war in [[Ireland]] near [[Dublin]] with his wife and son, Humphrey. He joined [[The White Stag group]] of refugee artists. His work was inspired by [[Masson]], and by reading [[Jung]], [[Nietzsche]] and [[Jakob Böhme]], with fantastic creatures and plants painted in vivid colours. | + | |
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| - | He returned to Paris in 1946, after the birth of his daughter Frances. He exhibited at the [[Salon des Surindépendents]] in Paris in 1948, attracting the attention of Danish artist [[Asger Jorn]], and leading to his membership of the [[COBRA (avant-garde movement)|CoBrA]] [[avant-garde]] art group. He was one of only two British member, the other being [[William Gear]]. He was included in the first issue of the group's journal and participated in both major exhibitions: the [[Bregnerød congress]] in August 1949, where he worked on the collective mural, and the [[Amsterdam]] exhibition at the [[Stedelijk Museum]] in November of that year, where he worked with [[Constant Nieuwenhuys]]. A French art critic described him as "le plus français des sculpteurs anglais et l'un des plus européens parmi les artistes" ("the most French of British sculptors and the most European of artists"). | + | |
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| - | He also visited [[Svanberg]] in [[Sweden]]. After his contact with CoBrA, his approach to painting became more abstract, but he remained in contact with [[Pierre Alechinsky]] after CoBrA dissolved. He exhibited several times at the [[Salon des Réalités Nouvelles]]. | + | |
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| - | During the 1950s, he concentrated on three-dimensional and architectural forms, formed from sheets of [[aluminium]]. He joined [[André Bloc]]'s [[Groupe Espace]] in 1954, exhibiting at the [[Salon de la Jeune Sculpture]]. He was also a founder of the [[Néovision]] group, and worked with experimental architect [[Peter Stead]]. He moved on to more curvilinear forms, exhibited at the [[Drian Galleries]] in London in 1961, and completed two public commissions in London. He received a [[Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation|Gulbenkian award]] in 1962, and the sculpture prize at the [[Tokyo Biennale]] in 1965. | + | |
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| - | His wife died in 1979, and his sculpture moved on from open forms to more enclosed structures. He returned to painting in the 1980s. Examples of his work are held by many public collections. | + | |
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| - | He died in [[Frome]] in [[Somerset]]. He was survived by his son and daughter. | + | |
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Stephen Gilbert (15 January 1910 - 12 January 2007) was a British painter and sculptor. He was one of the few British artists to fully embrace the avant-garde movement in Paris in the 1950s.
Stephen Gilbert once remarked "The difference between erotica and pornography is simple. Erotica is what I like. Pornography is what you like, you pervert!"
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