“I
don’t try to drain all expression out, I just want a very neutral expression.
If you have an extreme expression—either laughing or crying or whatever—then
that’s the only content that you will get out of it. Whereas if it’s presented
neutrally and flat-footedly, you can read whatever evidence is embedded in
their visage, like laugh-lines and furrows or whatever, in the same way that
you can make assumptions about people when you meet them at a cocktail party. I
am a humanist and I hope that a bit of humanity is in there somewhere; I just
don’t like to editorialize it”.
Artist Statement, 2010 Chuck Close, [online]
Available at: < https://artiststatements.wordpress.com/tag/chuck-close/ >
[Accessed 29 October 2013].
Artist Statement, 2010 Chuck Close, [online]
Available at: < https://artiststatements.wordpress.com/tag/chuck-close/ >
[Accessed 29 October 2013].
The Daguerreotype process directly
inspired American artist Chuck Close as one of his main mediums, he is mostly
renowned for his portraits done reinterpreting the Daguerreotype process, than
he uses grid lines to blow out the portraits in surreal sizes and painting them
using various particular techniques which rendered his work unique. Although he
had encountered a blood clot which left him almost completely paralyzed, he
sough to find techniques enabling him to continue his works of art’s and
maintaining his status as one of the current best American artists. Chuck’s
main subject is portraits, this came as a result since he had a disability in
remembering faces, so he worked on the most influential portraits and of
relatively importance for himself.
In his statement above Chuck Close is
expressing his style, since photography is one of the easiest mediums in which
everyone can actually use a point and shoot camera and achieve a relatively
good image, however on the other hand it is one of the hardest to have a
particular type of vision and being able to produce it via photography, this is
exactly what Chuck Close managed to achieve. His style involves Photorealism and
he made it a must not to have editorial kind of work, in the sense of not
having any text whatsoever in paintings. His approach was of not producing a
perfect portrait without defects, but instead concentrating on showing the road
map on the face which shows what kind of life that particular person has had so
far, these where shown by the particular features in their faces, like if they
laughed very often or frowned these would have been shown by lines those
rendering them more realistic humans.
YouTube, 2009. Chuck Close Clip.
[online]
[Accessed 29 October 2013].
YouTube, 2011. A&A Portrait - Chuck
Close. [online]
[Accessed 29 October 2013].
YouTube, 2012. Chuck Close explains why he
follows a grid. [online]
[Accessed 29 October 2013].
YouTube, 2013. Chuck Close: Faces on Canvas
• Thomas Feiner: Scars and Glasses. [online] Available at: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HblFiu-ysCU>
[Accessed 29 October 2013].
[Accessed 29 October 2013].
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