1971 Steven Sles Listed New Jersey Arizona Artist Art Psychedelic Painting Mcm

Description: 1964 Steven Sles Abstract Oil Painting Titled "Casein" 43" wide x 31" tall frame38" wide x 26" tall paintingWatercolor on paper. Pieces has been framed in dark wood with gray tweed matte. Signed in the lower right Steven Sles 71 titled on the back "Une Portic D'Univers". BiographySteven Sles was a painter, a composer and a poet. One thing he was not: handicapped. Though cerebral palsy caused a lack of muscle control that required him to use a wheelchair for much of his life, Sles didn't find his neuromuscular condition confining. He traveled the world as an internationally recognized artist, married, had a child and launched a second career as a composer.For Sles, it was the finished painting or composition that was important. He didn't want people to focus on the way he conveyed paint to canvas using a brush clinched between his teeth or the way he coaxed musical notes from a keyboard using his foot."I don't paint with my mouth, I paint with my soul," Sles said in a 1991 Tucson Citizen article. Sles was passionate about his art and wanted to leave an eclectic and meaningful body of work, said friend and fellow composer Robert Prakash Rai Oil on masonite board with original wood frame. Signed on the back Georgia Houston with Gallery price tag. Feel free to email me any questions you have. "Steven was never one to be constrained by what he couldn't do," Rai said. "Steven, first and foremost, was an explorer of art. "As an artist, he felt a duty to use his talents to provoke thought."When Sles died of congestive heart failure on Oct. 24, he left as his legacy a portfolio of 9,000 paintings, two CDs of original music with a third CD yet to be released, thousands of pages of poems and an unfinished memoir. He was 68.Sles was born in New Jersey in 1940, when schools weren't required to make accommodations for students with special needs. It would be 50 years before the Americans With Disabilities Act became law. His father, an attorney, was part of the grass-roots movement to start the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation.Though Sles wasn't paralyzed, muscle spasms caused involuntary movements, preventing him from steadily holding a pencil or a paintbrush. By the time he was 6, though, the budding artist had found a way to draw and paint by clasping chalk, pen or paintbrush between his teeth."I have an unusual degree of control," he said in the 1991 article. "Even the involuntary movement may become part of the lines."Despite a superior intellect that would lead him to learn six languages, Sles still had to fight biases of the day, when those with disabilities were thought to have little to offer society.Sles ignored the high school art teacher and the guidance counselor who told him to give up his dreams. When he was 15, Sles studied under abstract painter Hans Hofmann, before attending Bard College, graduating from Swarthmore College and traveling the world -- Martinique, France, Spain, Mexico -- and studying at the University of Madrid, Mexico's Instituto Allende, Mexico City College and the Art Students League of New York.Sles worked in multiple media -- oils, casein, aniline dyes, silkscreen inks, stained glass -- and painted in a variety of styles, evocative of some of the world's most celebrated abstract, expressionist and impressionist painters. Subjects were as varied as his media -- landscapes, figures, faces and even colorful, opaque abstract eruptions of watercolor."In my work, I am expressing very inward things," Sles said in a 1977 Star article.His art has been displayed in public and private collections in nearly 50 countries, including a permanent collection at Buckingham Palace. Sles was included in 18 American and International "Who's Who" editions, and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.It was while living in Spain that Sles met his future wife, Ana, a ballet dancer. The union lasted 22 years, and even divorce couldn't dampen the couple's mutual admiration, said their daught. SHIPPING/PICK-UP: The shipping will be flat rate of $80 shipping in anywhere in the lower 48 U.S. states. The shipping price includes boxes, supplies (bubble wrap etc), shipping, handling, and insurance through USPS or fedex. Local pick-up is always welcomed. 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Price: 398 USD

Location: Denton, Texas

End Time: 2025-01-15T07:08:04.000Z

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