Chuck Close

Recently, I discovered one of the most striking and memorable representatives of realism in America - Chuck Close . Honestly, I myself do not really like realism, but the manner of this artist attracted me very much.

A little about the biography. Chuck Klowz was born in 1940 in Monroe, Washington (USA). From an early age, he is fond of painting. The work of Pollock and De Kuning has a great impression on it. In 1964, Close graduated from Yale University and is encouraged by an internship in Austria to study European painting. Since the beginning of the 1970s, attracted the attention of the artistic world by a series of large-format hyperrealist portraits of his friends and self-portraits. It is the portrait of a large format that becomes the main genre of Cock Close.

Since 1971, prints have become an important component of the work of Close. It destroys the previous idea of ​​prints as a way of mechanical replication of picturesque work. Its prints require even more painstaking and exhausting work than picturesque canvases. The work can last several years on individual prints.

One of the most important areas of Close's work was photography. As in the painting by the focus of his interest, the human face becomes. As Close himself recalls, he felt a real photographer, working on a series of large -format polaroid portraits. Since 1997, Chuck Close has been fond of the creation of daggerrotypes, in fact, reanimating one of the oldest techniques of photographs.

So, look, evaluate, peer, enjoy, I will be glad if you like it.