Chuck Close is a famous artist. He takes pictures people, then paints them. He has been drawing from a long time. He has a different technique for doing his paintings. He has trouble remembering faces of people, but that doesn’t stop him from doing what he loves.
Chuck was born July 5, 1940. When Chuck was younger, he had dyslexia, which is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret, words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence. Everyone would make fun of him. His teachers said he was lazy in class, but that was from his dyslexia. Also when he was about 11 years old his father died. Another thing he suffered from was face blindness, which is and inability to recognize the faces of familiar people, typically as a result of damage to the brain. In Chuck’s portraits, which is a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only a face or head and shoulders. Also while he draws his portraits, there is shading included, which is dissipating …show more content…
After that he found a way for him to still keep creating and making portraits. Since he is paralyzed, he is in a wheelchair. So the way he still paints is by rotating and moving the painting up and down so he can still paint on his 9ft painting.
The reason why Chuck Close is important to people, especially me, is because he never quit what he loved to do, and that is so inspiring. The way he does his artwork is incredible, especially when he’s facing things that are hard. The way I used the grid method is sorta the same as he did because he used a portrait, we used this special pencil to create portraits, he uses a quarter of paint for each 9ft painting, which is amazing. The way he creates his artwork is unbelievable, and it’s really cool how he did his
Chuck was born July 5, 1940. When Chuck was younger, he had dyslexia, which is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret, words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence. Everyone would make fun of him. His teachers said he was lazy in class, but that was from his dyslexia. Also when he was about 11 years old his father died. Another thing he suffered from was face blindness, which is and inability to recognize the faces of familiar people, typically as a result of damage to the brain. In Chuck’s portraits, which is a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only a face or head and shoulders. Also while he draws his portraits, there is shading included, which is dissipating …show more content…
After that he found a way for him to still keep creating and making portraits. Since he is paralyzed, he is in a wheelchair. So the way he still paints is by rotating and moving the painting up and down so he can still paint on his 9ft painting.
The reason why Chuck Close is important to people, especially me, is because he never quit what he loved to do, and that is so inspiring. The way he does his artwork is incredible, especially when he’s facing things that are hard. The way I used the grid method is sorta the same as he did because he used a portrait, we used this special pencil to create portraits, he uses a quarter of paint for each 9ft painting, which is amazing. The way he creates his artwork is unbelievable, and it’s really cool how he did his