His early airbrush techniques inspired the development of the ink jet printer. Throughout his career, Close expanded his contribution to portraiture through the mastery of such varied drawing and painting techniques as ink, graphite, pastel, watercolor, conté crayon, finger painting, and stamp-pad ink on paper printmaking techniques, such as Mezzotint, etching, woodcuts, linocuts, and silkscreens as well as handmade paper collage, Polaroid photographs, daguerreotypes, and Jacquard tapestries. The pencil grid and thin undercoat of blue is visible beneath the splotchy "pixels." The painting's subject is fellow artist Lucas Samaras. Representative of his "later, more colorful and painterly style", "the elements of the picture are seen as separate abstract markings" when viewed close-up, while simultaneously maintaining the illusion of a realistic portrait at a distance. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. Lucas (1986 - 1987), oil and graphite on canvas. Close moved to New York City in 1967 and established himself in SoHo. When he returned to the United States, he worked as an art teacher at the University of Massachusetts. Īfter Yale, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna on a Fulbright grant. Among Close's classmates at Yale were Brice Marden, Vija Celmins, Janet Fish, Richard Serra, Nancy Graves, Jennifer Bartlett, Robert Mangold, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold. In 1961, he won a coveted scholarship to the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, and the following year entered the graduate degree program at Yale University, where he received his MFA in 1964. from the University of Washington in Seattle. Local notable eccentric, author, activist and journalist John Patric was an early anti-establishment intellectual influence on him, and a role model for the iconoclastic and theatric artist's persona Close learned to project in subsequent years. In a way I've been chasing that experience ever since." Ĭlose attended Everett Community College in 1958–60. However, within 2 or 3 days, I was dripping paint all over my old paintings. It was so far removed from what I thought art was. I saw this Jackson Pollock drip painting with aluminum paint, tar, gravel and all that stuff. In an interview with Phong Bui in The Brooklyn Rail, Close described an early encounter with a Jackson Pollock painting at the Seattle Art Museum: "I went to the Seattle Art Museum with my mother for the first time when I was 14. Close said he had prosopagnosia (face blindness), and has suggested that this condition is what first inspired him to do portraits. Most of his early works were very large portraits based on photographs, using Photorealism or Hyperrealism, of family and friends, often other artists. Even when in school, he did poorly due to his dyslexia, which was not diagnosed at the time. As a child, Close had a neuromuscular condition that made it difficult to lift his feet and a bout with nephritis that kept him out of school for most of sixth grade. His mother's name was Mildred Wagner Close. His father, Leslie Durward Close, died when Chuck was eleven years old. Chuck Close was born in Monroe, Washington.
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