Representative work by Chuck Close
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Chuck Close

1940–2021 · American · Based in New York, USA (d. 2021)

  • University of Washington, Seattle
  • Yale School of Art, New Haven
  • Photorealist Painting
  • Grid Portraiture
  • Printmaking
  • Jacquard Tapestry

Chuck Close was an American artist working across Painting; photography. The practice centers on monumental portraits built through grids and repeated units that transformed photographic information into a visible painting system. In relation to Photorealism, formal decisions remain closely tied to the cultural, social and material conditions surrounding the work.

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