Modernist Piece by Steve Charles 22/250.

An American Studio Artist Modernist C. 1970 in a mixed medium who was one of the first using metal circles coming out of the surface with 3D bubbles, or balls creating a symbolic and active movement or Kinetic style of movement, showing a man dancing, celebrating, with a piano, The Music of Life symbolizes joy, movement, happiness in a mixed media color woodblock print.

Steven Charles is so nearsighted as to be legally blind—when reading a book he can see the surface of the paper as being a texture distinct from the inked letters—and he possesses an intensity of energy that seems directly related to the swarming surfaces of his paintings: he talks fast, like a disc jockey, in an uninflected stream of wisecracks and complaints—bits about growing up in the culturally blank suburbs of Texas, the son of a construction worker, reading comic books and obsessively doodling, and about the underground music scene in New York, a place that echoes his own energy. But all this does not explain the accomplishment of his paintings, which is their extraordinary quality of time and space, more sensed than seen: indeed, these paintings are very hard to see. One steps up close to catch a virtuoso's detailed passage, but upon stepping back, it vaporizes into the whitish overall mist of the color spectrum. The paintings are patterned in photographs and more spatial in person.