Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Chuck Close
After beginning his career as an
ABSTRACT painter, Chuck
Close decided to limit his subjects to information gathered
from photographs. He also determined that he would make
large-scale works because he wanted his work to be noticed.
During the late 1960s, he began painting huge
black-and-white portraits of himself and friends. His early
paintings are now associated with a group of artists called
photorealists, who used photographs as the sources for their
paintings. Like other art of his era, Close's paintings are
in large part about the making of art.
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