Chuck Close
De’Jon Warren
Art 4B
25 October 2017
Chuck Close
Chuck Close, born Charles Thomas Close is an American photorealist painter photographer known for his massive-scale portrait. He is also known for abstract works of himself and others which often hang in international collections. Sadly, a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, but his fame continues to grow and may even be supported by his dedication to his craft despite him having little control of the waist down.
Close, as a child, struggled in school. He suffered from a neuromuscular condition that made it difficult to lift his feet and often had bouts of sickness that kept him out months at a time. Even when he as in school, his dyslexia also held him back, making art one of his few solaces. Most of his early works are very large portraits based on photographs, using Photorealism or Hyperrealism, of family and friends, often other artists. He suffers from prosopagnosia, or face blindness, and has suggested that this condition is what first inspired him to do portraits. Close studied at Yale with a few noticed modern artists. After Yale, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for a while on a Fulbright …show more content…
His early airbrush techniques inspired the development of the ink jet printer.
Prior to Yale, he was supposedly "destined to become a third-generation abstract expressionist, although with a dash of Pop iconoclasm." He also played around with figurative constructions, black and white photographs, and appropriation. In 1967, he made an artistic decision of only using non-paint media in his
Art 4B
25 October 2017
Chuck Close
Chuck Close, born Charles Thomas Close is an American photorealist painter photographer known for his massive-scale portrait. He is also known for abstract works of himself and others which often hang in international collections. Sadly, a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, but his fame continues to grow and may even be supported by his dedication to his craft despite him having little control of the waist down.
Close, as a child, struggled in school. He suffered from a neuromuscular condition that made it difficult to lift his feet and often had bouts of sickness that kept him out months at a time. Even when he as in school, his dyslexia also held him back, making art one of his few solaces. Most of his early works are very large portraits based on photographs, using Photorealism or Hyperrealism, of family and friends, often other artists. He suffers from prosopagnosia, or face blindness, and has suggested that this condition is what first inspired him to do portraits. Close studied at Yale with a few noticed modern artists. After Yale, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for a while on a Fulbright …show more content…
His early airbrush techniques inspired the development of the ink jet printer.
Prior to Yale, he was supposedly "destined to become a third-generation abstract expressionist, although with a dash of Pop iconoclasm." He also played around with figurative constructions, black and white photographs, and appropriation. In 1967, he made an artistic decision of only using non-paint media in his