Chuck Close
1940–2021
Introduction
Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very large format camera. He adapted his painting style and working methods in 1988, after being paralyzed by an occlusion of the anterior spinal artery.
Wikidata identifier
Q453883
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Introduction
American painter and printmaker, known as one of the leading members of the Photorealist movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for his large portraits of himself and his friends taken from photographs and painstakingly rendered on canvas.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, collagist, graphic artist, lecturer, painter, photographer
ULAN identifier
500031023
Names
Chuck Close, Charles Close, Chuck Close, Charles Thomas Close
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