| LC control no. | n 50061466 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Close, Chuck, 1940-2021 |
| Variant(s) | Close, Chuck, 1940- |
| Other standard no. | 500031023 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1940-07-05 |
| Death date | 2021-08-19 |
| Place of birth | Monroe (Wash.) |
| Place of death | Oceanside (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Photo-realism Portrait painting |
| Affiliation | University of Washington Yale University |
| Profession or occupation | Painters |
| Found in | Worcester Art Museum. Three realists, 1974. Likeness : portraits of artists by other artists, ©2004: p. 66 (Chuck Close; b. 1940 in Monroe, Wash., lives and works in New York) Wikipedia, December 8, 2020 (Charles Thomas Close; b. July 5, 1940; American painter, artist, and photographer) The New York times, 19 August 2021, online, viewed 25 August 2021 (Chuck Close, who rose to prominence in the 1970s and '80s with colossal Photorealist portraits but who late in his career faced accusations of sexual harassment, died Thursday [Aug. 19, 2021] in hospital in Oceanside, N.Y., of cardiopulmonary failure; born Charles Thomas Close on July 5, 1940, in Monroe, Wash.; started making art from an early age, earned an art degree from the University of Washington in 1962 and an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1964, making Abstract Expressionist-style paintings; began using an airbrush and diluted black paint at the end of the 1960s to create highly detailed grisaille paintings based on mug-shot-like photographs, which were indistinguishable from photographs when seen in reproduction but at a close distance turn into landscape-like fields of facial details; refined his technique and added color in the 1970s, creating pixelated images with each cell of a grid filled with distinct marks, colors and tones that cohered into photographic images when viewed from a distance and devising a process of airbrushing separate layers of red, yellow, and blue; on Dec. 7, 1988, he was paralyzed from the neck down by a collapsed spinal artery, regaining movement in his arms and able to paint using brushes strapped to his hand after months of rehabilitation; following his injury, painted in a looser way, partly because he had lost the fine motor coordination in his fingers, with his new paintings seeming to swarm with woozy almost psychedelic energy; stopped painting nudes after he began making his large portraits but regularly produced photographs of naked male and female subjects; several women whom he had invited to pose for photographs publicly accused him in December 2017 of sexually inappropriate verbal behavior while they were alone with him in his studio at various times between 2005 and 2013; diagnosed in December 2013 with Alzheimer's disease which was amended to frontotemporal dementia in 2015, which could cause inappropriate conduct; was the New York art world's court painter, breaking only once from his own rule of painting only himself, other artists or immediate friends and family members to paint former President Bill Clinton, who awarded him a National Medal of Arts in 2000) |
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