His father, a sheet metal worker, plumber and on-the-side inventor, was always in ill health and moved the family from Monroe to Everett to Tacoma to Everett in search of civil service jobs with health benefits. When Close was 11, his life became pure hell. His father died. His mother, a trained pianist who in the Great Depression gave up her aspirations for concert career, got breast cancer.
They lost their home because of medical bills. His grandmother was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. And Close, an only child, spent most of the year in bed with nephritis, a nasty kidney infection. One thing did help him cope with the mind-numbing agony, sadness and misery: art. Tuesday, 29 May Image gallery. Emma Oil on Canvas Posted by Mr. Tuesday, 22 May Links 2 3 4. I shall be linking to links that have helped me find information on Chuck Close.
These may include general webpages, like Wikipedia, or videos on Youtube. Something I would suggest that you have a look at would be the timeline. People were saying that they prefer his newer work over his old work.
It is a full length conversation I believe. If you get time, have a look trough all of the links that I have linked through out this blog. Tuesday, 15 May Personal Analytical Framework. I will be looking at his inspirations and reasoning for creating this artwork, also if there are any symbols or meanings in his artwork. The work of painter Chuck Close is well known. For 25 years, he has created gigantic "block portraits. But as the viewer backs away from the canvas, a human face emerges.
The common explanation for this visual effect is that the edges of the individual blocks blur together as the viewer backs away. According to Pelli, the transition from grid to face occurs at relatively short distances from the canvas typically less than six meters. At these distances, the individual blocks are still in sharp focus for a person with normal vision. Something else is driving the effect. He always liked to draw. At age 4, he knew he wanted to be an artist.
At the age of 5, his dad made him an easel for his birthday and got him a set of oil paints from Sears. In an attempt to win friends and "get kids to be around me," he also did magic and puppet shows. He drew and painted. People noticed.
Little did Charles Thomas Close know back then that he would indeed to go to college, graduating not only from the University of Washington in magna cum laude but from Yale as well. Now, at the age of 57, he is one of the true superstars of art. His works hang in the world's most prestigious museums, he is considered by ARTNews magazine to be one of the 50 most influential people in the art world--and he is so big he turned down a major retrospective at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art because promises were broken.
He chose the Museum of Modern Art instead. No one can recall an artist ever turning down the Met. But this is much more than just the story of a local boy who made good. On Dec. Many thought his career was over. As he came to grips with life in a motorized wheelchair, unable to move from the neck down, with little hope for improvement, his biggest fear was that "I was not going to make art.
Since I'll never be able to move again, I would not be able to make art. I watched my muscles waste. My hands didn't work. But like the previous tragedies in his life, that didn't stop him either. He not only returned to painting, but with a new style that has kept his place as one of the great American painters of our time.
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