One of the artist of this week was Chuck Close (born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington), an American photographer and painter. in his early work he is best known for making huge hyperrealistic portraits (simular to Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack).
After he suffered a seizure in 1988 that left him paralized from the neck down (Close himself refers to this day as “The Event”) he started working on large low resolution portraits .
In his work there are a lot of self portraits and portraits of other artists.
Chuck Close
One of the artist of this week was Chuck Close (born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington), an American photographer and painter. in his early work he is best known for making huge hyperrealistic portraits (simular to Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack).
After he suffered a seizure in 1988 that left him paralized from the neck down (Close himself refers to this day as “The Event”) he started working on large low resolution portraits .
In his work there are a lot of self portraits and portraits of other artists.
Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Close
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