Image Credit: Chuck Close
Via Austin Museum of Art
I recently went to the Chuck Close exhibit at the Austin Museum of Art, which gave me a lot to think about. Close is known for the scale of his portraits (think: 9-by-7 foot
painting of a face). He is also known for paintings that make you
think you are seeing a photo. As Donald and Christine McQuade explain
in Seeing and Writing 3, his style is "photorealism or super-realism, which attempts to
recreate in paint the aesthetic and representational experience of
photography." In the recent exhibit
at the Austin Museum of Art, Close's scale is not quite so collosal; there are several 8-by-6 foot tapestries, but most of the images are more like 2-by-1 feet (the digital pigment print pictured above), or
even 15 very small images, which are 11-by-9 inches. There are no paintings.
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