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Chuck Close Chuck Close (born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington—died August 19, 2021, Oceanside, New York) was an American painter and visual artist who made massive-scale photorealistic and abstract portraits of himself and others. He is best known for his large-format photographs that he meticulously transferred onto enormous canvases using a grid system and acrylic paints—a technique that revolutionized portraiture and cemented his place as one of the most influential artists of the late 20th century. Despite suffering paralysis from a spinal artery occlusion in 1988, Close continued to cr…
A chart of Chuck Close's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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