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Chuck Close

TRACES: Chuck Close

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Chuck Close (5/7/1940-19/8/2021). Chuck Close is renowned for his highly inventive techniques of painting the human face, and is best known for his large-scale, photo-based portrait paintings. Through documents or interviews, starting with: moments and memories, we reveal out from the past-unknown …

Chuck Close, Fred, 2017-2018, oil on canvas, 36” x 30 9 (Diptych), © Chuck Close, Courtesy Pace Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Chuck Close

In the 1960s, Chuck Close pioneered Photorealism with his monumental, exquisitely detailed portraits, whose subjects he took from photographic sources. Playing with …