Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, also known as Pierre et Gilles, are French artists and romantic partners. They have been producing works together since 1976. Their art is peopled by their friends and family, anonymous and famous, who appear in life-size sets the artists build in their studio. They apply paint to the photographs once printed on canvas. Accomplished image creators, Pierre and Gilles have built up contemporary iconography on the frontier between art history and popular culture.