chuck close

To quote my 50 American Artists You Should Know book
by Debra N. Mancoff - 'for more than four decades Chuck
Close (b. 1940) has painted portraits.  His foremat - grand scale, face
front, neutral expression - rarely varies.  But by shifting the
traditional rationale behind portrait painting from capturing
a likeness to pictoral investigaton, Close has completely
redifined one of the most conventional subjects in the history
of art.'

And furthermore - it is so fascinating how Chuck Close does
some of his portraits.  From a distance - as in Jasper John's
Food Flag - his portrait of former President Bill Clinton
looks like him - but on closer examination the painting
is really made up of tiny square designs.

I really can't imagine how Chuck Close does this - it is
so amazing  - and surely time consuming.


kinda like the artist who painted in dots