Chuck Close
“Art saved my life.” This quote is from Chuck Close, a famous artist who paints photorealism, a type of art genre where an artist attempts to reproduce images as realistically as possible, and is of whom this essay is about. Now, I’m not writing about Close because he is dead, oh no, he is very much alive at the age of 76 years. No, the real reason I’m writing about him is that he is an amazing artist and overcome many this and that it was he who was picked by my teacher for the class to write about. With all this background done let’s move onto the real essay. Let’s start easy. Close was born on July 5 in the year 1940 in Monroe, WA, to his parents, Leslie and Mildred Close. He had one sibling, Martin. Close, as due to his dyslexia …show more content…
He eventually achieved many things. Some examples would be his election into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician in 1990, only to become a full Academician in 1992, receiving the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton in 2000, and being appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama in 2010. Despite these achievements he still had many obstacles to overcome along the way. One such example would be his face blindness. Face blindness is a brain disorder in which the individual cannot recognize faces. He was able to overcome his face blindness by drawing or painting their face. Speaking of his art, he has done so many different styles that I can’t possible fit them into this essay but here are some. He has used ink, graphite, pastel, watercolor and so many more, but I will explain how he used the grid method for his photo realism art. The grid method is when an artist draws a grid over a reference photo and then drawing a grid of equal ratio on their work surface. The work surface can be anything from paper to a wall, but basicly, the artist will draw, paint or use any other technique to transfer the image to their work surface one square at a
“Art saved my life.” This quote is from Chuck Close, a famous artist who paints photorealism, a type of art genre where an artist attempts to reproduce images as realistically as possible, and is of whom this essay is about. Now, I’m not writing about Close because he is dead, oh no, he is very much alive at the age of 76 years. No, the real reason I’m writing about him is that he is an amazing artist and overcome many this and that it was he who was picked by my teacher for the class to write about. With all this background done let’s move onto the real essay. Let’s start easy. Close was born on July 5 in the year 1940 in Monroe, WA, to his parents, Leslie and Mildred Close. He had one sibling, Martin. Close, as due to his dyslexia …show more content…
He eventually achieved many things. Some examples would be his election into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician in 1990, only to become a full Academician in 1992, receiving the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton in 2000, and being appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama in 2010. Despite these achievements he still had many obstacles to overcome along the way. One such example would be his face blindness. Face blindness is a brain disorder in which the individual cannot recognize faces. He was able to overcome his face blindness by drawing or painting their face. Speaking of his art, he has done so many different styles that I can’t possible fit them into this essay but here are some. He has used ink, graphite, pastel, watercolor and so many more, but I will explain how he used the grid method for his photo realism art. The grid method is when an artist draws a grid over a reference photo and then drawing a grid of equal ratio on their work surface. The work surface can be anything from paper to a wall, but basicly, the artist will draw, paint or use any other technique to transfer the image to their work surface one square at a