Chuck Close: Painter and Photographer
I was watching the Colbert Report (pronounced “repore”) recently, where one of his guests was artist, Chuck Close. I was vaguely familiar with his paintings, but found out he dabbled in photography too. I wanted to know more. He is an artist who began painting portraits in a photorealistic or hyperealistic style. His work has evolved, now he experiments with varied grids or cells, and creates mini abstract images that work together to convey a larger image. His paintings are large and in charge. When I say, large, I mean it. See below! In the Colbert interview, he said he gravitated toward large canvases because they take longer to walk by, so they have a better chance of being noticed. Nice work Chuck, you’ve got my attention.
Here is one of his first self-portraits. “Big Self-Portrait,” 1968. It measures 108 x 84″, unframed. Dang!
“Mark,” 1978-1979, 108 x 84″. This painting took 14 months to complete.
“Frank,” 1969, 108 x 84″
Chuck Close, self-portrait, 1997
Detail of the above photo.
Bill Clinton’s portrait by Close, is on loan to the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.
This photo of Kate Moss by Chuck Close is a Daguerrotype, which was the way the first successful photographic process. A Daguerreotype is a method of creating photographs that is no longer in general use. A man called Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype process in France in 1839. The new type of photography became very popular very quickly as it was capable of capturing a “truthful likeness.” By 1850, there were over seventy daguerreotype studios in New York alone.
However the popularity of the daguerreotype was short lived as other cheaper processes were invented. By the late 1850s faster and less expensive processes such as the ambrotype, became available. A drawback of the Daguerreotype was that there was no negative from which to produce lots of images. Each picture was therefore unique, the only way to get a copy was to rephotograph the image.
Kate Moss was photographed here in 2005. Close reports that “She wore no makeup; she hadn’t combed her hair and she never even glanced in the mirror…”
“I’ve had enough pretty pictures made of me.” says Kate.
Very interesting and inspiring work.
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