![]() ![]() The circumstances of his life formed the man and artist he was to become. ![]() Charles said of his work that its purpose was to “amuse and punish.” In Charles’ work there was first a humorous delight as we got the “joke,” but then continued to the deeper message and a proffered mirror. Each of these artists in his own way cast an eye on the society of their times - the institutions, the culture, the behaviors of the classes, religion, work, life, death, ambiguity and irony. His work resides within a long narrative tradition that begins with Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, and extends through Francisco Goya, William Hogarth, Honoré Daumier, into Al Hirschfeld and Ralph Steadman. He worked every day - up to his very last.Ĭharles pushed away compliments and became uncomfortable when I spoke publicly about his importance as an artist of our time. All of these qualities came together in a man of uncommon warmth, uncompromising dedication to his craft and a determination to keep on moving and growing as an artist and a man. ![]() He was an amalgam of many parts: a supremely gifted visual artist, a storyteller and a witty writer, a deeply educated classicist, a keen observer of human nature and a comic. I’ve never known anyone like him, nor is it likely that I ever will again. ![]()
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