Gérard Calvet is a French Post-war & Contemporary artist who was born in 1926, Conilhac- Corbières and died on the 6th March 2017, in Montpellier, France. Gérard Calvet’s work has been offered at auction multiple times.
Gérard Calvet was born in 1926 and was primarily inspired creatively by the 1950s growing up. He was educated at the National School of Fine Arts. The 1950s can be said to have been dominated by Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting that prioritised expressive brushstrokes and explored ideas about organic nature, spirituality and the sublime. Much of the focus was on the formal techniques of painting, and ideas of action painting were conflated with the political freedom of the United States society as opposed to the strict nature of the Soviet bloc. Important artists of the Abstract Expressionist Generation included Jackson Pollock (who innovated his famed drip, splatter and pour painting techniques), Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Frank Kline, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still and Adolph Gottlieb. It was a male dominated environment, though necessary reassessment of this period has underlined the contributions of female artists such as Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Louise Bourgeois, amongst others.