Chuck Close Photorealism

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Chuck Close is a famous artist who draws huge portraits which he also uses photorealism (photorealism is a genre of art that ecompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium). He is known for using that method on real life photographs.
Chuck Close was born on July 5, 1940, in Monroe, Washington. Yes, Chuck close is still alive. In fact, he is about 76 years old. His parents were Leslie Durward Close, and Mildred Wagner Close. Chuck Close only has one brother, and his name is Martin Close. Chuck’s hobbies are literally just painting. He says that he doesn’t really paint the face, he just uses symbols that help him see and draw the face he was studying.
Chuck’s later years in his art career, was now he can’t pain with one hand, so he paints with two hands. When he was just a little bit younger in his ages, he was diagnosed with face blindness and dyslexia. Which means that if
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But whatever life gives you, make them into positive things, not negative things, and always remember to be yourself, because no one can really change that except for you and your decisions. Chuck Close can help people through anything, even though he may not remember you, it still means that you can learn something from him instead of not learning anything at all. The technique that he uses seems really interesting, also very interesting to learn. I have always wondered how Chuck Close used that technique. It had always occurred to me that they would always use the technique where the artist just looked at a photograph of someone that they wanted to paint, and then they would just draw it according to the picture, also known as doing the grid

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