Chuck Close Painting
by Paul Meijering
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$2,500
Dimensions
90.000 x 120.000 x 1.000 cm.
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Title
Chuck Close Painting
Artist
Paul Meijering
Medium
Painting - Acrylic Painting On Panel
Description
Realistic acrylic portrait painting of the American artist Chuck Close, painted by the Dutch fine artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 120 x 90 cm and for sale
Charles Thomas Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter, artist and photographer. He makes massive-scale photorealist portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Close also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera. Even though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint.
Chuck Close (Monroe, Washington, July 5, 1940) is an American painter and photographer who became famous for his photorealism and his larger-than-life portraits. Although he became paralyzed in 1988 and has been in a wheelchair ever since, he has continued to paint and continues to produce work that is much loved by museums and collectors.
Close's father died when he was 11 years old.
In 1962, Close graduated as a "Bachelor of Arts" from the University of Washington in Seattle. He then went on to further education at Yale University, where he earned the degree of "Master of Fine Arts" in 1964.
After his time at Yale, he lived in Europe for some time through a fellowship from the Fulbright program. Back in the US, he became an art professor at the University of Massachusetts.
Close suffers from visual blindness, which makes it difficult for him to recognise people. His fascination with the portrait may have resulted from this.
Most of Close's work is enormous portraits of family and friends. Close often portrays other artists as well, if their work appeals to him, for example Philip Glass, Lucas Samaras and Alex Katz. Close has also portrayed celebrities, such as Bill Clinton.
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