Chuck Close Essay

“I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won’t be able to give much information about who it is.”-Chuck Close. Chuck Close is a 77 year old artist, who is known for making realistic portraits of human faces using a grid technique. Most of the portraits he has created are non-life size. His “Big Self Portrait” piece, unframed, is 107-½ × 83-½ × 2. He has been through many depressing and significant events in his life, yet he still says he is the happiest man in the world, which is hard to believe. Chuck Close was born on July 5, 1940 in Monroe,Washington. His father was Leslie Durward Close (died in 1952, when Chuck was 11) and his mother was Mildred Wagner Close (died of breast cancer {year n/a}).Chuck had one brother named Martin Close. Both of his parents enjoyed doing an activity, involving an art. Having parents who enjoy art, would give Chuck more support from his family to pursue his future career in art. School wasn’t a great place for Chuck, he had dyslexia …show more content…
He has been through many significant events, but still manages to do what he loves and finds a way to progress forward in his career. He found a way to display people, by drawing an image of them, trying to reveal more of their true self, not with makeup or fancily done hair, just their true natural style. He also teaches you that when creating your art, you don’t have to stick to the original technique. You can add your own style to it and make it your own. We used the grid technique in art to draw portraits of people, just like Chuck Close. We drew a grid on top of the photo of the person, then drew a grid of the same proportions onto the paper, then transferred the photo as accurately as possible. Just like Chuck Close, we put our own twist into the portrait drawing, so it wasn’t the same as everyone