Chuck Close

Chuck Close ( born July 5, 1940 in Monroe, Washington; actually Charles Thomas Close) is an American painter and a major photo realists in the United States.

Life and work

Close spent most of his life painting. He also taught as a teacher. By the end of 1979 he had already completed the 100 works. 1969 were shown by him in the Whitney Biennial images. In 1970 he had his first solo exhibition. The New York Museum of Modern Art was first held in 1973 of his works.

He took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department of realism and at the Documenta 6 (1977 ) 1982 as an artist.

A ruptured blood vessel in the spine had 1988, a right side cross- sectional paralysis. Nevertheless, he managed to paint again with the help of rails stabilize his wrists and the brush. He argues his right hand with the left.

1992 Close was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, was elected.

1993 traveled Close the printer and Joe Wilfer to Wisconsin to work at Tandem Press at a linocut. After a series of disappointments and incidents the work, Alex / Reduction block is created, silk-screened edition, printed by Robert Blanton at Brand X Editions in New York.

Recently, the artist also dealt with the production of elaborate tapestries, in their countless knotted knot he sees another expression of a reproduced image generation. After four years of planning, the tapestry Lucas / Rug by Closes portrait of the artist Lucas Samaras of Rugao Arts and Crafts Silk Carpets factory in Rugao, Jiangsu, China, was produced.

Close received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1997, the RISD honorary doctorate in fine arts of Rhode Iceland School of Design, Province, and the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus, the highest award the University of Washington.

In 1999, he worked with David Lasry and Pedro Barbeito in Two Palms Press in New York where he produced Self-Portrait Self-Portrait I and II parallel to the large-scale oil paintings. On April 26, Chuck Close, Ruth Lingen, Richard Solomon and Joseph Wilfer were with the Dieu Donné Art Award for her achievements in the field of art on paper.

Chuck Close received the 1999 National Medal of Arts, Washington, DC

After two years of collaboration with master printer Yasu Shibata Close completed in 2002 the Japanese woodcut Emma.

2010 was included Chuck Close by President Barack Obama in the "President 's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities ."

Operation

Close goes off when a painting is not of the reality of nature and their direct stimulus on the retina, rather it is based on the indirect reality of the photo. With the help of a grid ( graphic printing ) he dismantled each photo and transfer it in this way to the canvas. For the different parts of the image he used different photos. This method allows him to assume a very sharp focus and concentrate in each image segment to a new focal point. With this method succeeds, the photographs with acrylic paints ( or other techniques ) to copy and in several life-size on the screen. It reduces some of the color and paints sometimes only in shades of gray.

Exhibitions

• 2012-2013: Multiple Portraits exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg,
• 2012: Chuck Close Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany.
• 2012: Chuck Close. Prints, Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Chuck Close. Multiple Portraits, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria.
• 2009: Chuck Close: Maquettes and Multi-Part Work ( 1966-2009 ), Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, NY.
• 2008: Chuck Close. Seven Portraits, Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2007: Chuck Close. Replied looks. Portraits 1969-2006, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany, and Chuck Close: Family and Others, White Cube Mason 's Yard, London, UK.
• 2006: Extensive RETROSPECTIVE at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia de Madrid and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
• 2005: Chuck Close: Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, and Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. Prints, daguerreotypes, & Holograms, Adamson Gallery / Adamson Editions, Washington, DC, as well as Chuck Close / Franz Gertsch, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany.
• 2004: Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
• 2003: beginning of an exhibition tour of U.S. museums through 2010 Chuck Close Prints: . Process and Collaboration, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston.
• 2002: Chuck Close: Portraits, The American Academy in Rome, Italy, and Chuck Close Prints, The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York.
• 2001: Chuck Close Self- Portraits, 1967-2001, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. From Rags to Riches: Twenty -five Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donné Papermill, organized by Dieu Donné Papermill, New York. Other stations in Michigan, Maryland, Kansas, New York, Wisconsin and Indiana.
• 1998 Chuck Close, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Further stations: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Seattle Art Museum; The Hayward Gallery, London, and Chuck Close: Prints, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Iceland.
• 1991: Chuck Close Editions, University Art Museum, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette.
• 1989: Chuck Close The Art Institute of Chicago. More Station: The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco.

Exhibitions Chuck Close Editions: A Catalogue Raisonné & Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, and Chuck Close: Works on Paper, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Film

• "Big, bigger, biggest. " These monumental about real portraits of American artist Chuck Close. Reportage, 6 min, Production: WDR, ttt - titel, theses, temperaments, Date posted: May 20, 2007 Summary of the WDR