Chuck Close (1940 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews

help | media kit | about us | services | contact

NEWEST TRENDS . BUY . JOIN . COLLECT . RESEARCH . READ . DISCUSS

-->

Artist: Chuck Close (1940 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Hyper-Realism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
After studying at Yale University, Chuck Close moved to New York and came under the influence of photographic painter Claude Cahun. In the 1970’s, Close began to emulate his style, copying the tiniest of details from portrait photographs and applying them to his canvasses. In his later work, Close expands in photo-realism using finger-painting techniques, stippling, and collage.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Chuck Close.

Brooklyn Museum of Art: Public Programs - Impressionists in Winter
...
Hoxton Distillery: Close to You: Photography by Tom Gleeson and Claudine Hartzel
Tom Gleeson's video and photographic work turns to the cinematic excesses of romantic love and to how this language informs communication. A series of photographs of sleeping friends and lovers fill one wall of Hoxton Distillery, while a video rec...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center: Katharina Sieverding: Close Up
Katharina Sieverding: Close Up focuses on the cinematic aspect of Sieverding's photographic work, notably her large-scale self-portraits, which compose a significant portion of her oeuvre. Employing the close-up to challenge conceptions of the rel...
Reynolda House, Museum of American Art: Self/Image: Portraiture from Copley to Close
The portrait occupies a singular place in the history of American art. As a genre, these representations of self are layered visual accounts of actuality, desire, and projection. Historical portraits—too often taken at face value—are granted a ra...
Hong Kong Museum of Art: The Literati Exchange: Wu School Painting and Calligraphy from the Xubaizhai Collection
Through the works of the Wu School selected from the Xubaizhai Collection, this thematic exhibition gives us some impressions of the life styles and close associations within the Suzhou literati circle. The Museum has published...
Ohio Art League: Francis Schanberger: The Close-up World of Dr. Frangst
Both their desks are in a constant state of chaos: covered with stacks of photographs, files, equipment and photographic debris, heaped like autumn leaves. Both must focus so intently on their research that the edges of their vision blur into vign...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
Also displayed are other intaglios and woodcuts, lithographs, silk-screen prints, linoleum cuts, and selected print matrixes, such as woodblocks and etching plates. The exhibition includes a number of progressive proofs and state proofs of certai...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Regarding Alex Katz
...
Gallery of Photography: The Close Season by Ken Grant
Such a framework is a key to the work contained within The Close Season by Ken Grant, his moving portrayal of changing Liverpool communities. With understated eloquence and celebration of detail, Grant has found an ability to deal with the di...
Chinese Arts Centre: Far Away, So Close: Paintings by Guo Wei & He Duoling
Reflecting on his training in drawing Guo Wei’s work, with its focus on aspects of everyday life, pays close attention to movement and posture. In his latest series he once again takes teenagers as the subject, capturing what he calls their ‘restl...
Gallery111: Request for submissions
Collaborative efforts between poets, musicians and artists are supported. The opening date of our first exhibition is 6:00pm Saturday 1st April 2000. This group show will be a reflection of the ideals and aesthetics of the gallery. A...
Worcester Art Museum: Chuck Close
Organized by Susan Stoops, curator of Contemporary Art at the Worcester Art Museum, Chuck Close features four major canvases from the past decade, including imag...
National Portrait Gallery: Rollie McKenna: Artists and Writers
Born in Texas in 1918, McKenna began her photographic career at the age of 30, when she purchased her first camera on a visit to Paris. Her travels in Europe and America and her work for Time and Life magazines as a researcher exposed her to the p...
Singapore Art Museum: Botero in Singapore: Monumental Sculpture and Painting
Before the larger-than-life monumental sculptures are unveiled to the public, we invite you to a special viewing session at the Helu-Trans Warehouse on 24 November at 10am, where 17 solid bronze nude sculptures await. The largest of the sculpture...
Arts Visalia: I Close My Eyes So That I Can: Ione Citrin
Five pieces in this exhibit are award winners on their own merit. “Shahrzad” is a Gold Medal Winner in a 2003 art competition sponsored by Neilson Bainbridge Co. “Ramses” was selected out of 33,000 entries as a finalist in the Experimental categor...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Close Encounters of the Art Kind: Work By Tania Kovats, Langlands and Bell, Sarah Lucas, Keir Smith, Richard Wilson, Bill Woodrow
Close Encounters of the Art Kind is devised by the innovative curator/artist, Colin Painter. Pioneering projects at the National Gallery (At Home with Constable's Cornfield, 1996) and Tate Britain (At Home With Art, 1999-2000) built on Painter's y...
ShanghArt: Hu Yang's: Shanghai Living
WEI Yufang (Shandongese, Vendor) We have miserable life. Battercake and salted vegetable for every meal, accompanied by plain water. When the kids cry for meat dishes, I just cook an egg. As long as it is not rainy, I go out and do my busin...
ShanghArt: Gallerist is Not Here: Solo Show by Zhou Tiehai
Honestly speaking, there is no close link among those different themed renderings, which proves that he is active in exploring Chinese culture and spirit from totally different angles. Like his “Female Movie Stars of the 1980s”, the beautiful face...
Carrara Academy Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art: Caravaggio - the light in Lombard painting
This is the first time that so many works from all over the world are collected together to illustrate an original interpretation of the work of Caravaggio connected to the figurative culture of his native land, Lombardy. Please, leave also yo...
Historical Museum of Vienna: Changes of View and Close-Up - Women Artists in Austria
...
Network Gallery: PhotoSensitive Unveils AIDS in Africa Project
Founded in 1990, PhotoSensitive brings together the photographic talents of a number of Toronto-based professional photographers to harness the power of the camera to achieve social goals. Each photograph...
Torpedo Factory Art Center, Target Gallery: Global Warming
This exhibition however will not be your usual small works exhibit. This exhibition, in celebration of the holiday season, will allow patrons who make a purchase from the show, to take the piece immediately home with them in exchange for a photo o...
Boston University Art Gallery: The Crafted Image: 19th-Century Techniques in Contemporary Photography
There are two workshops being offered: Rebirth of the Daguerreotype by Jerry Spagnoli and An Intimate Look at Cyanotypes with Jesseca Ferguson. There will be a gallery talk with curator Karen Haas at 1 PM on Wednesday, January 31. ...
Broadway Gallery: Shin-Hye Park: A Solo Exhibition
Tchera Niyego continues, "In the images of the very meeting point of the shore in close-ups where we see the water blending into dry land a nd there are no open deep seas or an air of the skies, the foam of the sea is ever so close to that breath...
Jane Haslem Gallery: A Century of American Woodcuts
Artists included are Antonio Frasconi, Gustave Baumann, Mauricio Lasansky, Franceso Clemente, Helen Hyde, A. Dow, and Chuck Close. The Jane Haslem Gallery is located at 2025 Hillyer Place NW in Washington DC, USA. Tel: 202.232.4644 Fax: 20...
Stamford Museum & Nature Center: SUSAN KAPROV: Nature...last modified
Each image is a complex still-life tableau, meticulously constructed layer by layer from the partial sections of living plants and flowers. At first glance, the vibrantly colored prints appear almost obsessively ordered: close-up, they are transform...
National Gallery of Canada: Close-Ups: Prints and Drawings by PUDLO PUDLAT
Pudlo Pudlat (1916-1992) used drawing as a means of thinking on paper. Those thoughts frequently explored the themes of architecture, technology and transportation as they related to the changing North. However, even at the earliest stages of ...
American-Scandinavian Foundation: Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
The Need and The Vision Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America will present Scandinavian culture and achievements, economic and political issues and many other facets of life in Nordic countries to a varied and often influen...
Art Dept: Call for Artists: 2008 International Art Contest
To update or submit a new entry for the 2008 contest, you can create site membership which allows you to log in and upload your art/details for the contest as well as submit a free listing to the World Artist Directory. http://www.artdept.or...
Association of Photographers Gallery: 02 Photographic Images of 2002
Another showcase for the exceptional talent that comprises the membership of the AOP, the End of Year Show 2002 stems from an invitation to members to submit the images that they have taken over the year that they feel most proud of. The diversity...
Fondazione Peano: C'era: 19 candles, 1 sculpture by Domenico Olivero
A traditional copper vessel named candisuar will be used, and 19 candles will slowly burn in it, each one with its own shape and size. During the happening some objects, given as gifts by some close friends, will be inserted into the vessel. They...
Studio 77: Uwe Pfaff 2003
A cast of many, their way illuminated by candles, parades endlessly around the formats constructed by Uwe Pfaff in his recent steel cut-out works. But while the characters - humans, angels, fish, serpents and various hybrid creatures - and the set...
Tate Gallery: Art Now
...
Whitechapel Project Space: Mie Miyamoto: Section(s)
Starting at her home in Nathaniel Close, E1, Mie walked a 17.6 kilometre long East-West trek across London concluding in Argyle Road, W13. She sees the recordings of this journey as a means of pasting and repairing pavement culture. The...
Institute of Modern Art: 3 EXHIBITIONS......1 LOCATION
Since 1991, Indigenous artists Brenda L. Croft and Destiny Deacon have exhibited their work alongside one another in various exhibitions, strengthening a friendship which stems from early days in indigenous affairs, government and community or...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Significant Others
The vast majority of portraits are commissioned works, a professional exchange of time and expertise for money, but for these Significant Others the impetus is oth...
US Art Gallery: Blindness: Jacques Dhont
Jacques Dhont is a South African sculptor who creates his work from mostly natural media, including wood, stone, bones and black wattle bark. He lives and works in the Jonkershoek Valley near Stellenbosch. Dhont was born in 1959 in Zaire. He r...
cellBYTES: Call for Artists: Online Exhibition of Mobile Motion Capture and Camera Snaps
Project Schedule open:
01 September 2004
close:
29 October 2004
exhibition:
22 November 2004 [Submission is free] To find out more visit http://www.cellbytes.com ...
Museum of New Art: SHOOT! Interactive Photography Exhibition Launches Saturday
In the end, the audience will have become the exhibition. Due to the nature of the show, there will be two receptions: the first will kick-off the photo shoot on Saturday May 11 from 6 to 10pm; and the second, the closing reception, on ...
Art Gallery of the South Okanagan: Let There Be Light: Works by Graham A. Scholes
Making arrangements with the Canadian Coast Guard, he was able to visit the lighthouses so he can, as he puts it, create his portraits of the lights. Scholes needed to touch his subjects, as it is a way of interpreting and getting in close contac...

Further Artwork and Information:

Chuck Close Online
MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 1998 | Chuck Close
ArtsNet Minnesota: Identity: Chuck Close
Chuck Close, Part One
Museum of Contemporary Art - Past Exhibitions
Chubby Chums Things I Like to Look AtMy Toy Boxa Little Book of Numbers3 Books and Panda
Chuck Close art gallery, portrait of an artist
Chuck Close: Links to Every Work Viewable on the Internet
pop-log: Chuck Close
Amazon.com: Books: Chuck Close

Search the Art History Database for artists, titles, media, year, and other indepth information:

Click here to buy Picasso, Pablo: Guitar on Table {l} for $89

Pablo Picasso
Guitar on Table {l}
Our Supplier's Price: $89.00

Click here to buy Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: Girl with Red Background for $8

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Girl with Red Background
Our Supplier's Price: $8.00

Vincent van Gogh
Cafe Terrace At Night (Detail)
Our Supplier's Price: $12.00

Click here to buy Kandinsky, Wassily: Green Composition, 1923 for $22

Wassily Kandinsky
Green Composition, 1923
Our Supplier's Price: $22.00

Click here to buy Dalí, Salvador: Apparition of a Face and a Fruit Dish for $16

Salvador Dalí
Apparition of a Face and a Fruit Dish
Our Supplier's Price: $16.00

	indepth arts search:

Free Arts News Subscription \| Browse the Arts \| Artist Portfolios \| International Arts News \| Arts News Archive \| Privacy Policy