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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0001771
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Work Title (display):
Elizabeth
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1989
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Chuck Close (American, born 1940)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American painter and printmaker. He studied (196065) at the University of Washington, Seattle, at Yale University and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. During this period he painted biomorphic abstract works, influenced by the avant-garde American art of the previous two decades. After a brief experiment with figurative constructions, he began copying black-and-white photographs of a female nude in colour on to canvas. After abandoning this approach he used a black-and-white palette, which resulted in the 6.7 m long Big Nude (19678; artist's col., see Lyons and Storr, p. 14). Finding this subject too 'interesting', he turned to neutral, black-and-white head-and-shoulder photographs as models, which he again reproduced in large scale on canvas, as in Self-portrait (1968; Minneapolis, MN, Walker A. Cent.). He incorporated every detail of the photograph and allowed himself no interpretative freedom. Working from photographs enabled him to realize the variations in focus due to changing depth of field, something impossible when working from life. He continued in the black-and-white style until 1970, when he began to use colour again. With a similarly limited range of model photographs, he experimented with various types of colour marking. The pencil and ink Robert/104,072 (19734; New York, MOMA), for example, is made from 104,072 separate colour squares. Other techniques included the use of fingerprint marks and pulp paper fragments. This concern with modes of representation links him to conceptual art as well as, more obviously, to Photorealism. For the colour paintings such as Linda (19756; Akron, OH, A. Mus.) he used acrylic, ink and watercolour among other media, and built the works up using only cyan, magenta and yellow, thus imitating mechanical reproduction techniques. Close also made occasional prints, such as the mezzotint Keith/Mezzotint (1972; see Lyons and Storr, p. 162). In the 1980s he worked with handmade papers and also produced images pieced together from huge polaroid photographs, such as Bertrand II (1984; artist's col., see Lyons and Storr, pp. 1567). (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-26)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Photorealist
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Photorealist
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
women (female humans)
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women (female humans)
Work Subject
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Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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Work Subject:
photographs
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photographs
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Work Worktype:
oil paintings
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oil paintings
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
oil paint on canvas
Work Measurements (display):
183 cm (H) x 154 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid:
107.199
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Rights (display):
© Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Davis Art Images
Work Rights (display):
unknown
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