Chuck close biography self portrait
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Self-Portrait by Chuck Close (2002-2003)
Chuck Close himself has become one of contemporary art’s most recognizable faces, thanks to countless self-portraits in media that range from oil on canvas to paper pulp to holograms and daguerreotypes. Here is an introduction to an interview with Close on Fresh AirMarch 5, 2004
He’s been called the “reigning portraitist of the Information Age.” He creates jumbo-size faces on canvas (8 or 9 feet high), copying them from photographs. They are painted in a dotted faux pointillist style. In 1988 Close suffered a stroke, which left him paralyzed from the neck down. Gaining partial use of his hand with a brace, he learned to paint all over again.
While it’s true that thirteen years ago, a blood clot lodged in a spinal artery nearly killed Close and left him temporarily quadriplegic, his artistic expression never came to a halt. Through physical therapy and iron determination, he regained the use of his arms and r
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Chuck Close's groundbreaking Big Self-Portrait is shown publicly for the first time on April 17, 1970.
On April 17, 1970, American painter Charles "Chuck" Close (1940-2021) exhibits his breakthrough painting Big Self-Portrait (1967-1968) publicly for the first time. The huge self-portrait, a painted enlargement of a close-up photo of the artist's face, is part of an exhibition titled Three Young Americans that opens that day at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio. The exhibition, which runs through May 12, 1970, features the work of artists Neil Jenney (b. 1945) and Ron Cooper (b. 1943) in addition to Close. This first public display of Big Self-Portrait comes not long after the work's purchase by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The painting is both the first self-portrait of the artist's career (many will follow) and his first artwork sold to an arts institution.
A New Approach
Born in Monroe, Snohomish County, Chuck Clos
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Summary of Chuck Close
Chuck Close is globally renowned for reinvigorating the art of portrait painting from the late 1960s to the present day, an era when photography had been challenging painting's former dominance in this area, and succeeding in steadily gaining critical appreciation as an artistic medium in its own right. Close emerged from the 1970s painting movement of Photorealism, also known as Super-Realism, but then moved well beyond its initially hyper-attentive rendering of a given subject to explore how methodical, system-driven portrait painting based on photography's underlying processes (over its superficial visual appearances) could suggest a wide range of artistic and philosophical concepts. In addition, Close's personal struggles with dyslexia and subsequently, partial paralysis, have suggested real-life parallels to his professional discipline, as though his methodical and yet also ganska intuitive methods of painting are inseparable from his own daglig reckoning