Artist entry number 4, Chuck Close. I remember sitting in my Art 107 class last semester and Prof. Laurie Blakslee showed us this artist. I didn't know much about him I just remember his famous self-portrait(2nd pic below). I saw this picture and I was blown away, it was so rugged and natural looking it looks like someone you'd see on the street but the picture was still very powerful.
Chuck is a graduated with a BFA from U DUB (University of Washington) and eventually received his Masters from Yale. Chuck worked with photography and acrylic and airbrush painting and is known for his hyper-realism paintings.
The image to the right, is an amazing self portrait, it is what he is famous for. How he creates this look is he takes a photo from the neck up and creates a large scale grid on a large piece of canvas and paints what looks like a random multi-colored blob in the square up close, but from a far it creates on image. Chuck mainly works with portraits. What is truly amazing is he is quadriplegic and with the very limited movement he has he still paints.
His work is very interesting, he created images out of something you wouldn't expect to get an image out of.
It's almost like he threw out the traditional rules of painting and did it his own way.
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