Thursday, August 10, 2017

Artist of the day, August 10: Chuck Close, American painter

Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (1940) is an American painter and artist and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Although a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors. Close also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera.

Chuck Close reinvented painting with his monumental portraits, rendered with exquisite, exacting realism from photographic sources. Playing with ideas of scale, color, and form, Close has become famous for his rigorous, gridded application of individual color squares, which, although abstract up close, form unified, highly realistic images from afar. “I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made,” he said. “I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.” Close’s artificially restrictive painting techniques stem in part from physical limitations—he suffers from an inability to recognize faces, and had a spinal injury in 1988 that left him largely paralyzed. Close is particularly known for his portraits of artists, having depicted Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Serra, among countless others. His work links him not only with Photorealists like Richard Estes and Audrey Flack, but also to Conceptual Art.



Self-portrait with cigarette
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Self Portrait by Chuck Close, 1955
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Study for Self-Portrait, 1968
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Study for Slow Pan-Keith (16mm film), 1970
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 Keith (III,I), 1974
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Study for "Keith  4 times, 1975
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Phil, 1976
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Phil from MOMA's 1976 Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1976
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Portrait of the Artist Phyllis Galembo, 1980
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 Phil  Fingerprint, 1981
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 Self-Portrait (Rigid), 1982.
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 Postcard of "Fanny", 1985
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Leslie  Fingerprint, 1986
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Janet Fish, 1996
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Lorna Simpson, 1996
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Roy I, 1996
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 Self Portrait II, 1997
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 Willem Dafoe, 1997
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John, 1998
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Agnes, 1998
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Lyle, 1999
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Cindy, Ellen, Kiki, Laurie, Lorna, 2000
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Kate, 2006
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Lucas Paper Pulp, 2006
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Kara, 2007
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Phil (detail), 2007
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Self Portrait (Lincoln Center), 2007
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Self-Portrait Woodcut, 2007
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Self-Portrait, 2008
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Phil, 2009
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 Phil, Fingerprint, 2009.
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 Untitled (Brad), 2009
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Brad, 2012
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Self-Portrait Screenprint 2012
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Obama, 2013
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