Chuck CloseChuck CloseSuper-Realist to FormalistSuper-Realist to Formalist

Leslie1974

Watercolor on paper72.5” x 57”

Does this look like a photograph?

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(Detail) Leslie

Does this look like aphotograph?

Fanny / Fingerpainting1985

Oil on canvas102” x 84”

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(Detail) Fanny

It was painted using fingerprints.There is no white paint used.

Chuck Close in front of one of his paintings.

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If you squint your eyesthe left side looks as real as the right side.

This method is howChuck Close preparesfor one of his paintings.

Drawing for Phil1976

Self-Portrait1991

Oil on Canvas100” x 84”

If you squint youreyes this looks likea photograph.

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Marquette for Roy (Polaroid Photograph 20” x 24” with grid)1993

(Detail) Roy II1994

Eric (in progress)1990

Oil on Canvas100” x 84”

How it’s done...

Chuck Close atwork in his studioon a painting ofElizabeth.

Elizabeth1989

Oil on Canvas72” x 60”

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Jacques-Louis David The Anger of Achilles, 1819

Portrait of Monsieur DeVillers

1840

Jean-AugusteDominque

Ingres

The ContesseD’ Haussonville

1845

Jean-AugusteDominque

Ingres

Francois-MariusGarnet

1807

Jean-AugusteDominque

Ingres

Sir William Pepperrelland His Family, 1778

John Singleton Copley

Henry Pelham(Boy with A Squirrel)

1765

John SingletonCopley

Richard Estes Parking Lot

Richard Estes Urban Landscape Series

KURTZ

RobertCottingham

ME

RobertCottingham

Marilyn

Audrey Flack

Green Tea Cup

Janet Fish