Discovering Charles Meere
Essays by Joy Eadie and Preface by Edmund Capon
Halstead Press
“Many people who readily recognise Australian Beach Pattern (1940) don’t know the name of the artist”, writes Joy Eadie introducing Charles Meere whose moment in the sun may have been clouded by our inability to see the ‘bigger picture’ of his practice. Eadie offers analysis of some of his most significant paintings concluding that he had a “tragi-comic vision of the human condition”, countering the perception (drawn from a single work) of his place as illustrating ‘Australian’ themes but perhaps not one that contributed to art history. The title includes a biographical note, list of recommended reading, colour plates which compare Meere’s compositions with classical paintings, and text that unpacks the academic references and social parallels of his work.
