Chuck Close's Influence On The American Art World

Chuck close is a renowned artist who is highly known for his greatly inventive techniques. He uses these techniques to paint the human face. He rose to fame in the late 1960’s because of his ability to create large scale almost photo-realistic portraits.
Chuck was born on July 5th, 1940. He grew up in Monroe, Washington, in a two parent household. Close growing up was suffering from a horrible disease, this dyslexia. Because of his dyslexia close did poorly in school. But although Close had trouble in school. He found solace in making art. After earning his Master of fine arts from Yale in 1964, Close took his place atop the American art world. What got Close to quickly rise atop the American art world was his creation of his large-scale photo realistic portraits. People said that these paintings were so great that many said that his paintings creatively blurred the distinction between photography and painting.
He was the son of two greatly artistic parents. Closes parent’s were extremely happy of their kids interest in art, and even though he suffers from dyslexia they showed great interest in his ability to make art at an early age. Close suffered in any and all subjects while he was going to school because of his dyslexia. Although even though he wasn’t good at any thing else. Close didn’t have any trouble in art class. On top off all the problems that Close had at school with the dyslexia and struggles of doing the work in other all of his classes. Close was not popular at all, not even a little bit. People like boys that are good at sports and because close was bad at sports that was another reason why. “Although it wasn’t Close’s fault”, Close’s inability to play sports came from a condition that he was born with and that condition is called a neuromuscular disease. Which gives him muscular weakness, muscle wastage, muscular cramps, muscle stiffness, muscle pain, and breathing