Throughout his career, Close painted numerous selfportraits, always from photos. This simple but strict limitation allowed him to concentrate fully on the transformation of the photo into an artwork, using a range of different techniques and materials. He always divided an image with a grid and ‘translated’ each square, one by one, onto a larger format. His prints, which he worked on for several months, were just as important to him as his paintings. Keith is a key early work in which he left the grid visible for the first time. In later works the grid became increasingly apparent and Close increasingly abstracted his portraits. [text 2024]
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Throughout his career, Close painted numerous selfportraits, always from photos. This simple but strict limitation allowed him to concentrate fully on the transformation of the photo into an artwork, using a range of different techniques and materials. He always divided an image with a grid and ‘translated’ each square, one by one, onto a larger format. His prints, which he worked on for several months, were just as important to him as his paintings. Keith is a key early work in which he left the grid visible for the first time. In later works the grid became increasingly apparent and Close increasingly abstracted his portraits. [text 2024]
This object is now not on display in the museum
Title
Keith
Artist
Chuck Close (Monroe, Washington 1940 - 2021 Oceanside, New York)
Amerikaans fotorealisme : grafiek, samenst. kat. Heinz Holtmann ; . vert. en bew. Wouter Kotte, (Utrecht, 1974), verg. cat. nr. 9, pp. 26-27, met afb.
Amerikaans fotorealisme = Amerikanischer Fotorealisme = American Photorealism : de verzameling = die Sammlung = the collection: Museum Hedendaagse Kunst Utrecht, [tekst Wouter Kotte], (Utrecht, 1988), cat. nr. 3, p. 67, met afb.; p. 98
Beeldende kunst 1850-2001, Marja Bosma, (Utrecht, 2001), pp.. 613-616, met afb. in kleur
Exhibitions
Op scherp - Fotorealisme nader bekeken, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2024
Photorealism. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, 2017
Photorealism. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, 2016 - 2017
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