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Chuck Close

Chuck Close. Using a grid to enlarge artworks and images. Keywords for Students. Photorealism Value Tint Shade Monochromatic Painting gridding. Value. Value is the lightness or darkness of a hue or neutral color.

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Chuck Close

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  1. Chuck Close Using a grid to enlarge artworks and images

  2. Keywords for Students • Photorealism • Value • Tint • Shade • Monochromatic Painting • gridding

  3. Value • Value is the lightness or darkness of a hue or neutral color. • A value scale is the range of values from black to white and light to dark. • Tint is the light value of a color made by mixing with white. • Shade is thedarkness of a color; may be achieved by adding black.

  4. Who is Chuck Close? • Born 1940 • American Painter, Printmaker • He began studying art when he was about ten years old. • He is best known for his monumential, detailed paintings of portrait heads

  5. His Works

  6. Big Self Portrait • 1967-68 • Acrylic on canvas • 107 1/2 x 83 1/2" • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

  7. Dorthea • 1995 • Oil on canvas, 102 x 84" • The Museum of Modern Art

  8. Georgia • 1984 • Handmade paper, 56 x 45" • Signed, lower right

  9. Fanny / Fingerpainting • 1985 • oil on canvas • 102 x 84 x 2 1/2 in. • National Gallery of Art

  10. Self Portrait • 1997 • Oil on canvas • 102 x 84" • Private collection, New York.

  11. Lyle • 2002 • 147-color silk screen • 65 1/2 x 53 7/8 in. • Metroplitan Museum of Art, NY

  12. His Methods

  13. He begins each new work with an extreme close-up, usually of a face, taped to a board. The photograph is then squared so it can be enlarged and transferred by hand to canvas. • He has painted in thousands of tiny airbrush bursts, thumbprints, or looping multi-color brushstrokes. • The enormity of the completed painting magnifies each realistic detail of the subject's appearance, including wrinkles and freckles.

  14. Maquette for April • 1990 • Polaroid Polacolor ER print with tape, ink, and paint, mounted to foamcore • Image: 20 x 24 in. • Getty Museum, LA • Along the right-hand border of this image, Close tested a range of paint colors in an attempt to find the appropriate balance for the painting.

  15. Self-Portrait • 2000 • 40 in. x 30 in. x 1/4 in. • Polaroid with tape, ink, and oil, mounted on board • Collection SFMOMA • Notice the grid drawn on top of the image!!

  16. Self Portraits / Scribble / Etching Portfolio • 2001 • 18 1/4 in. x 15 1/4 in. • etching on paper Collection • SFMOMA • This art work is monochromatic!!

  17. gridding

  18. As a class create a monumential portrait Each student will paint a value scale and a monochromatic scale The class will select a cultural icon to depict The image will be gridded in 2 inch sections Each student will be assigned one section to grid onto a 12” square sheet of paper each student will paint one monochromatic section using The assignment

  19. Resourses and Credits • http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=68433+0+none • http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/chuck_close_b.htm • http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a9469-1.html • http://moma.org/exhibitions/1998/close/index.html • http://www.clemusart.com/educef/distance/html/3126386.html • http://www.paintbygrids.com/ • http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/cicurframwkmain1.htm

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