Gerard Francis Tempest (February 23, 1918 – July 26, 2009) was a painter, sculptor, architect and veteran of World War II. Tempest was the father of Abstract Spiritualism and the protégé of Giorgio de Chirico, the forerunner of Surrealism.
Born in San Donato Val di Comino, Italy in 1918, Tempest immigrated to the United States in 1929. He studied art as a teens at the Boston Museum School, founding his own sign-painting company at the age of 19.
Drafted in 1943 as a private in the United States Army, Tempest eventually became an officer, serving under Omar Bradley in the 82nd Airborne Division. Tempest fought in campaigns all over Europe, including Normandy on D-Day, the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, and in the same way as the French Underground in the Liberation of Paris. One of the main characters[who?] in the film Is Paris Burning? is said[by whom?] to have been based upon him. Tempest traditional the Bronze Star Medal in 1944 and expected the 101st Airborne Division’s insignia, the “Screaming Eagle”.
Returning to the Boston Museum School in 1945, Tempest studied below abstract expressionists Max Beckmann and Oscar Kokoschka. He forward-looking studied below Giorgio de Chirico as his protégé in Rome. There in 1957 he first introduced Abstract Spiritualism. He continued to paint for the get out of of his life, with major exhibitions in the United States, France and Italy.
Between 1958 and 1963, Tempest intended and built the Villa Tempesta in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Noted for its beauty, the villa was expected from remnants of two 19th-century mansions torn the length of in urban renewal projects in the 1950s. Starting in the mid-1960s and continuing for two decades, Villa Tempesta (now known as Villa T’eo) housed a booming restaurant noted for fine cuisine. Renamed to Whitehall at the Villa, it today contains the Whitehall Shop and Tranquil Corners Antiques.
He usual the Gold Medal at the Cannes Art Festival in 1987 and was lucky by the Holy See in having his be active becoming a ration of the unshakable collection of the Vatican Museum in 1982 and 1990. In 2009 the South Carolina legislature lucky him similar to a perfect citing his do its stuff as an performer and as a veteran.
Tempest died in his sleep in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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