Chuck Close Biography
Chuck Close
Would you be able to paint or draw if you were sick or “disabled”?
Chuck Close did, Chuck Close is a 77 year old man who continues to paint portraits about 9 feet tall. Chuck has face blindness, in order to remember friends or family members faces he paints them. He was also paralyzed from the neck down, he is in a wheelchair but uses a hand brace and an aisle on his wheelchair to continue to paint. To go along with the face blindness and paralyzation, chuck has always struggled with dyslexia. His dyslexia has slowed down his learning, even though he was slowed down he still went to yale and took advanced art classes.
Chuck was born on July 5th, 1940 in Monroe, WA..
Chuck is an artist who gained fame from photorealism and large
paintings. One of the reasons he paints portraits is to help him remember people's faces and names because of his face blindness. Chuck still paints even if he can't stand or move a lot of his body because he is paralyzed. Chuck had learning disabilities when he was younger so he drew and painted things to help learn. Because he is in a wheelchair he does things different, bigger, and more complicated. When he paints he starts from the bottom left corner and rotates his painting as he goes. He paints using the grid method,
Would you be able to paint or draw if you were sick or “disabled”?
Chuck Close did, Chuck Close is a 77 year old man who continues to paint portraits about 9 feet tall. Chuck has face blindness, in order to remember friends or family members faces he paints them. He was also paralyzed from the neck down, he is in a wheelchair but uses a hand brace and an aisle on his wheelchair to continue to paint. To go along with the face blindness and paralyzation, chuck has always struggled with dyslexia. His dyslexia has slowed down his learning, even though he was slowed down he still went to yale and took advanced art classes.
Chuck was born on July 5th, 1940 in Monroe, WA..
Chuck is an artist who gained fame from photorealism and large
paintings. One of the reasons he paints portraits is to help him remember people's faces and names because of his face blindness. Chuck still paints even if he can't stand or move a lot of his body because he is paralyzed. Chuck had learning disabilities when he was younger so he drew and painted things to help learn. Because he is in a wheelchair he does things different, bigger, and more complicated. When he paints he starts from the bottom left corner and rotates his painting as he goes. He paints using the grid method,