Peter Gee taught Colour Theory at Harvard University in the 1960s and is credited with the introducttion of post-Bauhaus colour and basic design theory which influenced the Op Art Movement - eye catching posters / designs first utilised in New York to replace neon signs during a long running electricity blackout. The Bauhaus view that whole man-made environment was an object of design had, prior to Gee become sidetracked at the Bauhaus by getting linked with moralistic ideas of reform by good design. In this period Gee used day-glo colours in conjunction with two basic forms, namely the target and petal forms to demonstrate his colour.
Gee and Warhol shared the same silk screen printer, Marie Dormus and Gee's and Warhol's association gave rise to a cross fertilization of ideas and in his usual "assimilation" Warhol appropriated many of Gee's themes such as Gee's silver foil wall covering for Warhol's entire "Factory" studio / workshop, Gee's "lips and tongue" logo for his own "lips"prints (see Communication Arts), garish primary colour separation in his silk screen work, use of petal motifs in his Flowers prints, etc (see Warhol photographs at The ApoGee Gallery) and his daring use of the latest available inks and pigments.
Gee is known for his pioneering commercial work in the early marketing of computer companies and computer company stocks such as IBM.
Peter Gee (1932 - 2005)
The Target Man
Artist and Photographer (chiefly Pop Art and Graphics 1960s)
"The world's most famous unknown artist" - Ray Johnson, US Artist, Art Collector and Critic on Peter Gee.
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'Unite' was one of many images that Peter Gee created for the burgeoning civil rights movement which became the key issue in American life during the latter half of the 60s and into the early 70s.
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