Harry Carmean- chryssanthou

HARRY CARMEAN

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 FEITELSON

EDUCATION: L 'Ecole des Beaux Arts, France, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.

43 years instructor of painting and drawing at Art Center of Design, Pasadena, California (1952-1996)

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 1997 Chryssanthou 612 N. Robertsen Blvd., West Los Angeles, California, 1990 Irvine Valley College, Irvine, Ca., 1989 Nebera Gallery, Denver, Co., 1988 Irvine Valley College, Irvine, Ca., 1988 Nebera Gallery, Denver, Co., 1987 N.W. Ayer, Los Angeles, Ca., 1984 Dan Turk Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca., 1978 Moody Gallery, Pasadena, Ca., 1977 Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Az., 1976 Seventh Street Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca., 1975 Seventh Street Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca., 1974 Seventh Street Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca., 1970 Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, Ca., 1964 Fullerton Art Association, Fullerton, Ca., 1962 Marymount College, Los Angeles, Ca., 1962 Orange, County Art Association, 1961 Micheal Thomas Gallery, Beverly Hills, Ca., 1960 Orange County Art Association.

1961 Eastern Circuit:
Chapman College. Orange, California., Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas, Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, Wisconson, Columbia Museum of Fine Art, Columbia, South Carolina, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Columbus, Georgia.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:1961
Western Curcuit:
University of Redlands - Redlands, California. Historical Society of Montana, Helena, Montana. Art Center in La Jolla - La Jolla, California. Art Bam - Salt Lake City, Utah. Texas State College for Women - Denton, Texas. University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Nebraska.

1962 Western Curcuit:
Eastern Illinois State College, Charleston, Illinois. Maryville College, Maryville Tennessee. De Pauw Student Union, Greencastle, Indiana.

BOOKS: "CARMEAN" by June Harwood , "CARMEAN" Master Draughtsman Series, by Linda Jacobson (Bordon Publications)

MAGAZINES: Valley Magazine, May 1997, Vogue Italia, Sept., 1996, She Magazine, Sept., 1992, Metropolitan Homes, Nov., 1992, Los Angeles Times Magazine, 1989, American Artist, Sept., 1987, Art News, (republished in Lecia, 1974.

TELEVISION: "Feitilson on Art" KNBC, 1961, guest on six programs. "The Incredible Human Machine" National Geographic Society, 1975.

CLIENTS: Black Sabbath/Warner Brothers, Anaprox/Syntex Corporation.

COLLECTIONS: Nick Brigante, Sidney Franklin, Steven Longstreet, Edward G. Robinson, Thomas Moody, Edith Vonnegut, Dan Wolf, Fullerton City College, Oakland Museum, His Royal Highness, Turki Bin Nassir Abdulaziz al Saud, (Commisioned to a portait of the Crown Prince of Arabia.)