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Chuck Close
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Chuck Close is an American photographer, photorealist painter, and printmaker. Most of his works are large-scale portraits based on photographs of his family, friends, himself, and fellow artists.
His works hang in the world's most prestigious museums, and he is considered to be one of the most influential people in the art world.
He always liked to draw, and at age of 4 he knew he wanted to be an artist. In , he received his B.A.
from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Contessa gallery chuck close biography
He then attended graduate school at Yale University, where he received his MFA in After Yale, he lived in Europe on a Fulbright grant. When he returned to the U.S., he worked as an art teacher at the University of Massachusetts. In his work was included in the Whitney Biennial, and he had his first one man show in Close's work was first exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art in early
To create his iconic grid-work images, Close puts a grid on the photo and on the can