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Peter Gee was born in Leicestershire, England in 1932. After his national service with the British army he studied art at st.Martins Art College and moved to the U.S.A. where from 1962 he taught colour theory at Harvard University. He is credited with introducing post-Bauhaus colour and basic design theory which influenced the Op Art/Pop Art Movements - eye catching posters/designsfirst utilised in New York to replace neon signs during a long running electricity blackout. The Bauhaus view that the whole man-made environment was an object of design had, prior to Gee, become sidetracked at the Bauhaus by being linked with moralistic ideas of reform by good design. In this period Gee used Da-Glo colours in conjunction with two basic forms, namely target and petal forms to demonstrate his colour.
Gee and Warhol shared the same silk screen printer, Marie Dormus which 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 and garish colour separation in his silk screen work, use of petal motifs in his Flowers prints etc (see various Warhol photographs at the ApoGee Gallery)
Gee is notable for his pioneering commercial work in the early marketing of computer companies and computer company stocks such as IBM.
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