HARRY CARMEAN

	Buy It Here!		Harry Carmean knows authoritatively the methods of the great draughtsmen and the great "painterly" painters. The old Masters, and a highly disciplined study of nature, have provided Carmean with an ability to define the human figure seldom equalled by anyone of his generation. In his paintings he has learned how to escape the dominion of nature: the transfigured reality is sustained by the internal logic of his imagination and sensibilities. His work is free from the iconoclastic furor, brutal bravado, and the usual truculence of youth. While his ingenious compositions are not rigidly pre-conceived, neither are they fortuitous exhibitions. The historical background-matrix of Carmean's art by-passes Cezanne and the Cubist: his prototypes are late Greco, Magnasco, Daumier, Bonnard, Vuillard, and Soutine. Reality is never abandoned; the absolute of material reality is compromised with lyricism. He transmutes a tangible, figurative world into a symphony of dynamic form-color-area pattern. Every stroke and juxaposition of color nuance is charged with its own magic. Carmean represents to an extraordinary degree a vital current in contemporary art which formidably challenges the prevalent ascedance of non-figurative painting. LORSER FEITELSEN	BIO THE IMAGES -fineart MORE IMAGES A WINK IN THE PRESS

Harry Carmean knows authoritatively the methods of the great draughtsmen and the great "painterly" painters. The old Masters, and a highly disciplined study of nature, have provided Carmean with an ability to define the human figure seldom equalled by anyone of his generation. In his paintings he has learned how to escape the dominion of nature: the transfigured reality is sustained by the internal logic of his imagination and sensibilities. His work is free from the iconoclastic furor, brutal bravado, and the usual truculence of youth. While his ingenious compositions are not rigidly pre-conceived, neither are they fortuitous exhibitions. The historical background-matrix of Carmean's art by-passes Cezanne and the Cubist: his prototypes are late Greco, Magnasco, Daumier, Bonnard, Vuillard, and Soutine. Reality is never abandoned; the absolute of material reality is compromised with lyricism. He transmutes a tangible, figurative world into a symphony of dynamic form-color-area pattern. Every stroke and juxaposition of color nuance is charged with its own magic. Carmean represents to an extraordinary degree a vital current in contemporary art which formidably challenges the prevalent ascedance of non-figurative painting.
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BIO

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A WINK IN THE PRESS

BOOKS

Jacobson, Linda, "Drawings of Harry Carmean," Master Draushtsman Series, Borden Publishing Co.