It is painted 'with about half a teaspoon of black paint' which is thinned down to the consistency of dirty water and applied with brushes and an airbrush. Chuck Close (* 5.

'Big Self-Portrait', a massive 9ft high painting of a head around fifty times life-size, characterizes Chuck Close's early work.

Chuck Close made his inaugural series of works–eight large-scale, black and white paintings of faces—between 1968 and 1970.

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© 2014–2016 Chuck Close. All chuck close paintings ship within 48 hours and include a 30-day money-back guarantee. Close verbrachte die meiste Zeit seines Lebens mit dem Malen. Official Chuck Close website. Phil is a portrait of Close's long-time friend, composer Philip Glass.

Feb 25, 2018 - Explore grunt271's board "Chuck Close" on Pinterest. Close’s method of painting is always indexical, an incremental process whereby associative colours and shapes build up a pictorial syntax and a recognisable figurative whole.

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In this and other early “heads” (as the artist calls them), Close sets each frontally-depicted face against a neutral ground.

All Rights Reserved. Warm colours are set against cold, circles against squares and the organising principles of the grid are constantly broken by minute areas of expressive abstraction. Unless otherwise noted, all artwork reproduced courtesy the artist, Pace Prints, and Pace Gallery.

2005: Chuck Close: Recent Paintings, Pace Gallery, New York, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, und Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. Juli 1940 in Monroe, Washington; eigentlich Charles Thomas Close) ist ein US-amerikanischer Maler und einer der bekanntesten Fotorealisten in den USA. The mesmerizing details are created by scraping with razor blades to depict the sharper areas of definition and rubbing with an eraser …

Unless otherwise noted, all artwork reproduced courtesy the artist, Pace Prints, and Pace Gallery.