Gyorgy Roman - Artist Info

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    György Roman, 1903-1981, A Survey by the artist, November 9, 2002

    “Painting his dreams, Gyorgy Roman has no predecessors, and his followers keep running fast out of breath. I don't feel that I exaggerate in ranking this autochton painter among the great figures of not just Hungarian but universal art history. ” Janos Frank, 1998

    György Roman's oeuvre is one of the most significant and captivating in Hungarian modernism. It reveals painting in terms of its classical myth of origin: as the embodiment of the desire to remember. Roman's paintings invoke life-long fantasies and dreams, representing and incarnating memories and phantoms of a long-gone, but, it seems, endlessly recurring and haunting past.

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