| Author | Message | ||
     Dave Citizen Username: Dave Post Number: 6274 Registered: 4-1998  |
Was at the Met yesterday and walked into the special show of Chuck Close prints. First reaction was "big deal, a bunch of oversized photos". Then I realized they were paintings in acrylics. Can't begin to fathom how long each took to do.  Here's a detail from that painting that shows his grid method, (similar to that used by many Italian Renaissance painters):  There are also some of his daguerreotypes and fabric pieces. | ||
| debby Real Name Username: Debby Post Number: 186 Registered: 5-2001 |
Dave - when you consider his partial paralysis it's even more unfathomable. I recently helped a student write a paper about Close, and loved learning about him. I especially liked his thumbprint works, like Fanny (I'm afraid I don't have the technological prowess to insert it here) | ||
| Brian O'Leary Citizen Username: Brianoleary Post Number: 1741 Registered: 3-2002 |
Dave, remind me to show you some of the work my oldest is doing these days. | ||
| themp Citizen Username: Themp Post Number: 872 Registered: 12-2001 |
I rode in an elevator with him once when I was a museum guard. |
