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Chuck Close

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Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.


— Chuck Close


#another #around #like #object #occupies

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.


— Chuck Close


#i #paint #photograph #really #somebody

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.


— Chuck Close


#clearer #decisions #i #i think #just






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Early life and education
Close was born in Monroe Washington. If you impose a limit to not do something you've done before it will push you to where you've never gone before. See also
List of Chuck Close subjects
The Portrait Now.

Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (born July 5 1940) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist through his massive-scale portraits. Though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors. Close currently lives and works in New York's West Village and in Bridgehampton New York.

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