Chicagos earliest artists were painters and illustrators who created sentimental portraits, landscapes. A Fulbright in Vienna came next, then a teaching position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. From its earliest history, art in Chicago was created in response to the particular nature of the cityfirst as a rapidly growing gateway to the frontier West, then against the backdrop of industrialization and global commerce. After a stint at a junior college, he received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Washington and an master of fine arts from Yale, where his classmates included such other future luminaries as Richard Serra, Brice Marden and Vija Celmins. Close struggled early as a student due in part to undiagnosed dyslexia, but he would go on to attain a sterling academic artistic pedigree. Close will always be remembered for his attentiveness to the human face, for his regard for and manipulation of that most unique of physical characteristics.īorn in 1940 in Monroe, Wash., Mr. While he experimented with style and medium across his long career-painting, printmaking, drawing, collage, photography, tapestry-Mr. He began his first studies in drawing at the age 16 with his father E.L.Carter, a commercial artist. He hoped Provence’s warm climate would relax him and that the brilliant colors and strong. John Michael Carter, American painter, was born in Chicago, Illinois. Although stimulated by the city’s artistic environment, Van Gogh found life in Paris physically exhausting and moved in early 1888 to Arles. Close and executed with such precision that he found himself included in the nascent Photorealism movement (an association he rejected), they were field-filling head shots in which every detail down to the smallest pore was meticulously recorded. Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait, 1889, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. Close became a marquee figure thanks to his monumental portraits. ![]() ![]() One of the last surviving pioneers of the old New York art scene in SoHo, where he moved in 1967, Mr. Chuck Close, one of the most important painters of the postwar era and a blue-chip name in the contemporary art world, died on Thursday at age 81.
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