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Chuck Close

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This is a slide show about our Gridded Portrait project inspiration, Chuck Close.

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Chuck Close

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Chuck Close

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Who was he?

Born in Monroe, Washington in 1940

In his teens, muscular weakness and learning disabilities made sports and academics a challenge – he found drawing was what he was good at—and making people laugh!

He really was a smart and talented guy - Received a BA at the University of Washington, MFA at Yale, Fulbright Scholar in Europe

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When he was a kid in Monroe, he studied with a neighborhood artist and was probably the only eight year old around drawing a nude model. This influenced him to continue his study of nudes at the University of Washington.

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He had a lot of support from his mom and dad. His dad died when he was 11.

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His work… Began painting in 1960’s- influence from

pop art.

One subject for 30 years – the human face› “I paint heads because heads matter to

everybody. If you paint a face big enough, it’s hard to ignore.”

Began as a photo- realist artist but a spinal injury forced a necessary change in his style.

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“I had to recover to paint. There is nothing else I can do. There is nothing else I want to do.”

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The process…

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“I build a painting by putting little marks together – some look like hotdogs, some look like doughnuts – the way a writer makes a novel by slamming words together.”

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