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Chuck Close is celebrated for his monumental portrait paintings in which sitters stare out at viewers with uncompromising gazes. Although identified by name, these subjects reveal none of the nuances of individual personality found in traditional portraiture.
Keith/Mezzotint, 1972. mezzotint on paper. sheet: 51.5 x 42 in. (130.8 x 106.7 cm) Official Chuck Close website. © 2014–2016 Chuck Close. All Rights Reserved. Unless otherwise noted, all artwork reproduced courtesy the artist, Pace Prints, and Pace Gallery.
The artist works from dark to light, using a rocker to burnish or smooth the surface to create areas that hold less ink. In this way, a full range of tones is produced. Because this method is so labor intensive, mezzotints are usually small in size.
Chuck Close, Keith, 1970–1972. Close’s first project at Crown Point Press was a massive-scale, labor-intensive mezzotint, an antiquated printmaking technique he had never attempted.
30 de ago. de 2023 · Chuck Close fue un artista estadounidense visionario que dejó una huella indeleble en el mundo del arte contemporáneo con su enfoque innovador del retrato. Conocido por sus retratos fotorrealistas a gran escala, Chuck Close redefinió los límites del realismo y la abstracción en su búsqueda por capturar la esencia de sus sujetos.
Chuck Close is an American photographer and photorealist painter and printmaker.
Chuck Close | Keith/Mezzotint, 1972
