Chuck Close, born July 5, 1940 is an American painter who became famous as a photorealist, through his massive scale portraits. Chuck often paints abstract portraits, which hang in collections internationally. Although a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors. Chuck also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera.Chuck Close is noted for his highly inventive techniques used to paint the human face. He rose to fame in the late 1960s for his large-scale, photo-realist portraits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Close. Chuck Close worked in many different types of artwork. The main type of artwork …show more content…
His first thought was how am i going to begin painting again? "I remember saying 'you see, I told you I can't do it' with tears running down my cheeks,”http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-30723575. But as he began to get back some strength through daily rehabilitation, Close was able to put his hands together, clamp them around a paintbrush and literally fall onto a canvas, hoping the brush landed in the right place. "It was good enough, even with the first attempt to know that I could do it eventually," http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-30723575. By the time he left the hospital he was creating painting just like he did before he was paralysed. Chuck was given a brace that helped him grip the paintbrush and after he left he was painting again. Chuck close also had another disability called Prosopagnosia which is also called face blindness. This disability left him not recognising his friends and family. He often kept pictures of them. In an interview, Close also discusses how these portraits are the result of taking individual pieces of information to make a whole a rather good definition of mosaics. Thinking of his work in mosaic terms is almost automatic. There is the tessellation of same sized segments and he does create the texture and reflectivity found in mosaic materials in those exquisite details of circles and lozenge shapes. It’s as if Close creates a visual code of dots and dashes in sequences
The warm wind blew my hair back, while I listened to the chatter and thumps from the steps on the wooden walkway. Car horns occasionally sounded as they passed by up the road. Colorful sail boats provided a picturesque background. Paris had his camera wrapped around his neck and was focused on the glowing sunset. We sat on a black swinging chair, facing the rippling water that held the sunset’s warm reflection. Paris scrolled through the pictures on his black professional camera.
It seems to be his style of painting, thick brush strokes. It is not simple, there is much to the painting, there is emotion in the painting. It is a stunning piece made by him.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York to parents Gérard Basquiat and Matilde Andradas. Little did they know at the time that Jean-Michel Basquiat would soon go down as one of the most important contemporary painters continuing to leave a legacy for decades to come after his passing. Basquiat would live a difficult life and experience many hardships until he later dies of a heroin overdose, but what he experiences during his lifetime is what shaped the way Basquiat expressed himself through his art. Basquiat’s exceedingly personal and relatable art is what guided him to being such an influential artist. “His work is likely to remain for a long time as the modern picture of
Norman Rockwell is best known for his depictions of dail life of a rural America. Rockwell’s goals in art revolved around his desire to create an ideal America. He said “ I paint life as I would like it to be.”
Each of the artists mentioned here met Andy Warhol at different phases of his career. While the majority of them were seen at the infamous Factory, some came both before and after. Regardless of where they met and knew Warhol, they each had their own individual lessons and impacts. Jean-Michel Basquait was perhaps the last artist to come around and really know Andy Warhol. Julia Warhol was certainly the first. In between were very many amazing artists, almost too many artists to talk about. The most important, of course, have been mentioned in this paper. Andy Warhol is a man still impacting art long after his death. His visionary style changed forever the face of both commercial art and gallery art. Hopefully this paper communicated a bit of that genius.
Andy Warhol was one of the most famous and successful graphic artists in the last century. His iconic paintings and prints are still remembered and noted today. If you see a brightly colored illustration of a celebrity, who do you think of? Andy Warhol, who was known for his portraits and product-based art work. Even looking at something as simple as a Campbell’s Soup can can trigger the thought of the 60’s artist.
time. Through everything, he realized the power that art could express. He had many viewpoints
Born in 1886 Diego Rivera was born to a wealthy family living in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of two his twin brother died and a year later Diego Rivera started drawing, his parents caught him drawing on walls and instead of punishing him nurtured his artistic side by enabling him with the supplies he needed. Throughout his life Diego Rivera was dedicated to art, “He began to study painting at an early age and in 1907 moved to Europe. Spending most of the next fourteen years in Paris, Rivera encountered the works of such great masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse.” Influenced by the work of such great minds Rivera began the search for his own signature and contribution to modern art, “Rivera was searching for a new form of painting, one that could express the complexities of his day and still reach a wide audience.” Rivera found the medium he was looking for, a form of street art involving murals painted on fresh plaster, he returned to Mexico to introduce this new form of art to the public. Rivera soon sewed himself into the art community in America, “His outgoing personality puts him at ...
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks states, “Art Hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home” which is true for many viewers when experiencing Bruce Nauman’s work. Nauman is classified as a contemporary American artist whose works also incorporate ideas of post-modernism and minimalism. He has been making art since the early 1960’s and has moved through many different mediums as his art progressed and his style changed. At first Nauman was a painter who soon ended that career and turned to sculpting, photography, film, and video. Bruce Nauman’s works of art have interested me and inspired my final assignment by his professional legacy, inspirations, and techniques.
Since the 7th grade, I have been a huge fan of the famous French-inspired realist and expressionist, Edvard Munch. His work is so full of passion and pain as well as shock and sadness. By gazing into the gloriously deep world of emotion he created, art lovers both young and old are amazed and drawn in.
Edvard Munch born in 1863 in Norway. He lived most of his life in Norway except for when he was studying in Germany and France. He used his paintings to express human emotions and life that weren’t always captured by other artists, his main themes were angst, love, anxiety, and death. He lost his mother and sister at a young age to tuberculosis In 1908 he
Up until this point in time, paintings were usually face shots or occasionally full body sho...
An idea being communicated through Bob by Chuck close is that you should always be yourself. In an interview done with Close, he stated “I had taken a break and was walking back into the studio. Looking at the painting, I realised that a highlight in one of the eyes was too bright. And I said, 'Damn it, now I'm going to have to take his glasses off'. But when I realised what I had said, I pivoted on my heel and walked out leaving the lights on, the compressor on and the airbrushes full of paint. When you start believing in your own illusion, you're in serious trouble”. In summary Close thought because of the reflection in the glasses, he would have to do another photo shoot and re-paint the painting but then realised that was useless and he should keep “Bob” true to himself.
Everyone can be an artist in many different ways because all it takes is thinking outside the box and just letting everything come to you when you are painting. Anyone could be an artist by putting color on paper or drawing something, and people can really tell who a person is by looking at their artwork. I think his work is naturalistic because its nature and real life people do things like this outside. Overall he is a great artist he expressed his emotions and feelings by painting this artwork. When you look at it you should feel happy and joyful instead of sad and horrible. Artists create places for human purpose, and to create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects. Artist want people to look at the work and be able to get something out of it than just a
He dedicated countless hours of research to studying ocular science before he concluded that “he could not depict correctly on canvas everything he saw with two eyes” (Wade, et al.). His studies of vision (Fig. 2) show the differences between a binocular view and a monocular view of an object. He found that a painting can only show a monocular view of the object, because when viewing an object with one eye, part of the background will not be visible; however, when viewing an object with two eyes, the viewer is able to see everything behind the object, because eye ‘s’ sees space ‘m x’ while eye ‘r’ sees space ‘x n’. In painting, this cannot be possible, because the painted object covers everything behind it. His findings were that “it is impossible for a painting even though executed with the greatest perfection of outline, shadow, light, and color to seem in the same relief as the natural model, unless that natural model is looked at from a great distance with one eye.” (Wade, et al.). These findings led him to abandon linear perspective in pursuit of atmospheric