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Gyorgy Roman BIOGRAPHY
1904 Budapest, Hungary - 1981. Known for: Painting.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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. Trying to situate and comprehend... Read full biography
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. Trying to situate and comprehend Roman's oeuvre among the tendencies of modernist painting, we are confronted by the difficulty that none of the isms or trends provides... Read full biography
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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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