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Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021)

At the end of the 1960s, a period when formalist abstraction and Pop Art dominated the contemporary scene, Mr. Close began using an airbrush and diluted black paint to create highly detailed nine-foot-tall grisaille paintings based on mug-shot-like photographs of himself and his friends.

Chuck Close’s approach to the canvas was inspired by the non-hierarchical, all-over surface of American painting epitomized for him by the work of Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock. After taking a picture of his subject, Close makes photographic prints that he uses to transfer the images to canvas. Utilizing a technique devised by Renaissance masters and adapted by contemporary billboard painters, Close overlays a working print with a numbered and lettered grid, and then reproduces the image block by block.

Mr Close also applies his creative process through a wide range of techniques and materials including acrylic, oils, watercolor, drawing, pastels, printmaking, collage, tapestry, photography, CYMK color separations, digital imaging, rubber stamps, fingerprints, paper pulp and string.

Chuck Close’s “Big Self-Portrait,” painted in 1968, Acrylic on canvas, 107-1/2 x 83-1/2 x 2 inches unframed, Credit...Chuck Close, via Pace Gallery.

'James' with close-up detail (2004), Screenprint (62"x48").

'Phil Fingerprint / Random' with close-up detail (1979), Fingerprints with stamp-pad ink (40"x26").

A portrait of the artist Kara Walker, Oil on canvas. 276,2 x 213,4 cm. Pace Gallery, New York. 

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