Biography Chuck Close

Chuck Klowz Chuck Close, Monroe, Washington-Oushenside, New York, the legendary portraitist and master of photorealism Chuck Klowz is one of the most influential artists of his generation, famous for the large-format portraits and innovative painting technique, which had a deep influence on American culture and the world art community as a whole. Starting work in the era of technological renaissance, Close soon abandoned the academic tradition and fashionable techniques of expressionism in those days.

Having achieved unsurpassed skill in the technique of studio photographs, in the x years he was one of the first to take the concept of photographic realism as a basis for his work. The clouz developed an algorithm for transferring pictures to large -scale picturesque canvases, while adhering to the techniques of abstract hyperrealism: virtually designed details, variations of clarity and shades of palette - always maintained a balance between real and fictional images in his oil work.

Shortly, the clouz method can be described as follows: after creating the picture, the resulting image is divided into a large -scale grid, which then the cage behind the cage is proportionally transferred to the canvas.

As the picture is painted, each cell is filled with paints close in shade. Acquaintance with any work of the clouz begins with this process, since the eye works first at the micro level, combining colors into one fragment, and then at the macro level, folding mosaics from these fragments. The mosaic gradually, like an abstract kaleidoscope, develops into a single image of a human face.

Art for him has become an important way to combat life difficulties. In addition to the ailment, which chained him to a wheelchair from the year, the artist from childhood suffered from pro -paganosia - a disorder of perception, which did not allow him to remember the faces of people. According to him, it was the disorder of the perception of persons that prompted him to write portraits: possessing a photographic memory on two -dimensional objects, he turned the faces of people important to him into portraits, thus remembering them.

Chuck Klowz was awarded the US National Medal in the field of art and was appointed a member of the Presidential Committee on Art and Humanities. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Literature and was part of the board of leading art organizations.