Chuck Close is an American artist known for his photorealistic portraits and self-portraits. He received his MFA from Yale University in 1964. In 1988, he was paralyzed from the neck down due to a spinal artery collapse, but continued his art practice. Close is known for pioneering a style using grids of different colored squares to abstractly represent faces and figures. Throughout his career he has experimented with different media and techniques to push his artistic boundaries.
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A longstanding presence in the Southampton, NY community, Troy Buckner is a private art dealer who previously owned and operated Clark Fine Art. Among the contemporary artists of note that Troy Buckner has exhibited are Larry Rivers, Donald Sultan, and Chuck Close.
Brief history of printmaking presentation illustrating the different techniques of printmaking from lino-cuts, silkscreen, woodcuts and etching/engraving from artists past and present.
This proposal was for admission interview. It was written in late 2019 before the pandemic. You can learn about my original aspiration of applying for this contemporary-art postgraduate programme based on my studio-art experiences, my experimentations and my confusions towards the notions of contemporary-art curatorship.
This is a very fundamental version of my research proposal for the admission interview of MAFA studies at CUHK Fine Arts. It was written right after attending Prof. Ho Siu-kee's admission talk in 2019, and there was no pandemic at that time. Now, the Kowloon Walled City Series is my graduation project. Looking back to my original idea before the admission, will there be some similarities between the research proposal and my current creative development?
20. ANALYSIS This is a picture uses color to depict the baby. It also uses shape and pattern with its grid.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. Chuck Close went to which prestigious school for his Masters of Fine Arts degree? Yale Harvard Cornell
24. Chuck Close was a part of which movement? Surrealism Superrealism Dada
25. Chuck Close suffers from which mental disorder? Bipolar disorder Depression Prosopagnosia
26. 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
27. 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.
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