Ben White
Screen Printing Fall 2016
Rob Smith
Chuck Close: Innovations in Print
For more than three decades, Chuck Close has delved into the art of printmaking in his continuing exploration of the principles of perception. His exhibition, Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, is the first comprehensive view of Close's involvement and accomplishment with a large variety of forms and printmaking processes. It features approximately one hundred works dated from 1972 to 2002, Chuck Close Prints shines a light on the artist's range of innovation in etching, aquatint, lithography, handmade paper, direct gravure, silkscreen, traditional Japanese woodcut, and reduction linocut. Drawing attention to Close’s creative processes and collaboration between the artist and master printers, the exhibition testifies to how Close has consistently but variously fought the conventional view of the printmaking tradition.
To showcase Close’s sublime attention to detail this paper will take an in depth look at two of his most remarkable screen prints. The first being Alex Reduction Block, 1993 which portrays Alex Katz and uses a very roundabout way of creating a screen, and the second Zhang Haun II, 2013, in which Close demonstrates his mastery of subtle gradation and his “quadrant” style of breaking down an image into its …show more content…
The steps he has taken to transform the mundane into the story of lives is an endeavor that no one before him had tried to do. His genius is in the details and is evident in every piece he creates. Close has taken the art of printmaking and added new ways of looking at the world and of creating prints. Works Cited
"Welcome to Chuck Close: Process & Collaboration." Welcome to Chuck Close: Process & Collaboration. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
"Chuck Close | Lucas I | The Met." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I.e. The Met Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov.
Screen Printing Fall 2016
Rob Smith
Chuck Close: Innovations in Print
For more than three decades, Chuck Close has delved into the art of printmaking in his continuing exploration of the principles of perception. His exhibition, Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, is the first comprehensive view of Close's involvement and accomplishment with a large variety of forms and printmaking processes. It features approximately one hundred works dated from 1972 to 2002, Chuck Close Prints shines a light on the artist's range of innovation in etching, aquatint, lithography, handmade paper, direct gravure, silkscreen, traditional Japanese woodcut, and reduction linocut. Drawing attention to Close’s creative processes and collaboration between the artist and master printers, the exhibition testifies to how Close has consistently but variously fought the conventional view of the printmaking tradition.
To showcase Close’s sublime attention to detail this paper will take an in depth look at two of his most remarkable screen prints. The first being Alex Reduction Block, 1993 which portrays Alex Katz and uses a very roundabout way of creating a screen, and the second Zhang Haun II, 2013, in which Close demonstrates his mastery of subtle gradation and his “quadrant” style of breaking down an image into its …show more content…
The steps he has taken to transform the mundane into the story of lives is an endeavor that no one before him had tried to do. His genius is in the details and is evident in every piece he creates. Close has taken the art of printmaking and added new ways of looking at the world and of creating prints. Works Cited
"Welcome to Chuck Close: Process & Collaboration." Welcome to Chuck Close: Process & Collaboration. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
"Chuck Close | Lucas I | The Met." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I.e. The Met Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov.