2. EARLY LIFE
Born in Monroe, Washington
Father died when he was eleven
Prosopagnosia (face blindness)
Went to the University of Washington
in Seattle for his BFA
Graduated with a MFA from Yale
University in 1964
3. Mark (1978 - 1979),
Acrylic on canvas.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
4. LATER LIFE
Lived in Europe for a while
Won the Fulbright grant & National
Medal of Arts
Returned to the U.S. and worked as a
professor for the University of
Massachusetts
1988 he was paralyzed when his
spinal artery collapsed
5. Lucas (1986 - 1987),
Oil and pencil on canvas.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
6. “If you impose a limit to not do something
you've done before, it will push you to
where you've never gone before.“
Chuck Close (1967)
7. Style
Photorealist/ hyperrealist
1967 he decided to go in a new
direction: cells consisting of different
colors
Later he moved to a more
topograpgic style of painting
Has tried many different types of
media
13. ANALYSIS
This is a picture uses
color to depict the baby. It
also uses shape and
pattern with its grid.
14. Interpretation
This is a picture uses
color very well; each
square is made up of a few
major colors creating and
overall hue. This design is
very intelligent in it’s use
of different organic forms
with in the grid pattern.
15. Judgment
While this is not my
favorite Chuck Close
piece, it demonstrates
Close’s knowledge of
capturing an image. It is
successful in all regards
of his goal: to abstract a
picture of a baby in a way
that is both recognizable
from far away and visually
transformed up close.
16. Chuck Close went to which prestigious
school for his Masters of Fine Arts
degree?
A. Yale
B. Harvard
C. Cornell
17. Chuck Close was a part of which
movement?
A. Surrealism
B. Superrealism
C. Dada
18. Chuck Close suffers from which mental
disorder?
A. Bipolar disorder
B. Depression
C. Prosopagnosia
19. Chuck Close draws his inspiration
from his need to try new media and
techniques. This means his knowledge of
art is always expanding. Almost all of his
works are of faces, incidentally Close can
not recognize faces. Therefore it can be
concluded that he uses his art as his own
type of therapy – creating art of people
to help him learn their faces.
As a hyperrealist Close focused on
color and form, depicting everything
20. exactly as he saw it. His technique with a
brush had gain him wide acclaim, but he
didn’t stop there. Close threw away all of his
tools and began to paint using the colors
and forms which he had studied in school.
He discover the technique of using grids and
abstracted color to create an image that
gained realistic qualities when viewed
further away.
His most recent works have been
collaborations with other artists and
developed on the idea of using small patches
of color to make an image.
