📸✨AI Reimagines the Masters✨ Chuck Close|329/1000
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Introduce briefly
Chuck Close was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer known for his massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits. He was born on July 5, 1940, in Monroe, Washington, and passed away on August 19, 2021 [1].
Early Life and Education:
- Close had a neuromuscular condition as a child, which made it difficult for him to lift his feet, and he also had dyslexia [1].
- He attended Everett Community College and later received his B.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle [1].
- Close then went on to study at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art and received his MFA from Yale University in 1964 [1].
Artistic Style and Techniques:
- Close's early works were large portraits based on photographs, using photorealism or hyperrealism [1].
- He had prosopagnosia (face blindness), which inspired him to do portraits [1].
- Close experimented with various drawing and painting techniques, including ink, graphite, pastel, watercolor, finger painting, and stamp-pad ink on paper [1].
- He also worked with printmaking techniques, handmade paper collage, Polaroid photographs, daguerreotypes, and Jacquard tapestries [1].
- Close's signature technique involved creating grid work copies of photos and applying one careful stroke after another to build his images [1].
"The Event":
- On December 7, 1988, Close experienced a spinal artery collapse, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down [1].
- He underwent rehabilitation and regained some movement in his arms, but relied on a wheelchair for mobility [1].
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