Chuck Close
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Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter, photographer, and photographer.
He creates large-scale photorealist portraits.
Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which are also included in collections around the world.
Close also shoots photo portraits with a large format camera.
Despite the fact that his spine artery in 1988 left him severely paraphrased, he has continued to paint.
Early life and education
Chuck Close was born in Monroe, Washington. Leslie Durward Close, his father, died when Chuck was eleven years old. Mildred Wagner Close was his mother's name. Close had a neuromuscular disorder as a child, making it impossible to lift his feet, as well as a bout of nephritis that kept him out of school for the majority of sixth grade. Even when he was in school, he did poorly due to his dyslexia, which wasn't present at the time.
The bulk of his early paintings were large portraits based on photographs, often other artists, based on photorealism or hyperrealism. Close said he had prosopagnosia (face blindness), and that this condition was what inspired him to do portraits.
Close in an interview with Phong Bui of The Seattle Art Museum, he related to an early encounter with a Jackson Pollock painting at the Seattle Art Museum: "I went to the Seattle Art Museum with my mother for the first time when I was 14. I saw this Jackson Pollock drip painting with aluminum paint, tar, gravel, and all of that stuff. I was utterly outraged and perturbed. It was so far removed from what I imagined art was. However, I was dripping paint all over my old paintings within 2 to three days. I've been looking forward to this experience ever since."
In 1958–1960, a Close attended Everett Community College. Local writer John Patric was a earliest anti-establishment intellectual influence on him, as well as a role model for the iconoclastic and theatric artist's persona Close.
Close earned his B.A. in 1962. Is a student at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received a coveted scholarship to Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 1961, and the following year enrolled in Yale University's graduate degree program, where he earned his MFA in 1964. Brice Marden, Vija Celmins, Janet Fish, Richard Serra, Richard Serra, Nancy Graves, Jennifer Bartlett, Robert Mangold, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold were among Close's classmates at Yale.
On a Fulbright scholarship, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna after Yale. When he returned to the United States, he taught at the University of Massachusetts as an art teacher. In 1967, Close came to SoHo and established himself in SoHo.
Personal life
Close lived and worked in Bridgehampton and Long Beach, New York (both on the south shore of Long Island) and New York City's East Village. Leslie Rose and he had two children. They divorced in 2011. Sienna Shields, a close married artist, married in 2013. They then divorced.
In 2015, Close was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. He died on August 19, 2021, in Oceanside, New York, at the age of 81, from congestive heart disease.