One of the most celebrated artists of his generation, Chuck Close (1940–2021) defined the language of portraiture.
Materials: - 9" x 12" Paper - Colored Pencils - Pencils - Student Photographs - Rulers - Sharpies - Chuck Close References
Exploring relationships between grid patterns. How does a grid turn into a portrait? Ask Chuck.
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Lucas 1986-87, by Chuck Close. With eye detail. (view large size to see detail)
Lots of versions of this project, here is what my students are doing: These directions come from art-paper-scissors blog . Chuck Close P...
I love the scale of these paintings. Yes they look amazing close up, where you can see how they were constructed, but the trompe l'oeil really takes over from this distance, and I like it when there's an audience in the frame, too :) This is "Lucas", by the way - a portrait of fellow artist Lucas Samaras. Hanging in the Met, one of my favourite places on earth.
I haven’t posted about my 6th grade and up class in a while. They have been working hard on their Chuck Close grid portraits. This project takes a lot of time but provides a lot of learning…
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Chuck Close is a modern American artist who has achieved international recognition for his large scale portraits of himself, his friends and his family.
Using the Grid Method, helps the artist to break down the reference to focus on small parts at a time. The grid method is an inexpensive, low-tech way to reproduce and/or enlarge an image that...
One of the highlights of our trip to New York last week was our visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Since the late 1960s, acclaimed American artist Chuck Close has been painting the faces of his friends and family. More than 200 works, mainly his prints, are currently being showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
Arguably the greatest painter alive, Chuck Close presents amazing new work at Pace Gallery in New York. His ability to calculate color is super-human and his perseverance in the face of dyslexia, prosopagnosia (face-blindness), and partial quadriplegia (!!!) is nothing short of incredible.
In this unit, I will experiment with multiple different ways of transforming portrait using different photographic and experimental techniques.
Students in middle school created these self-portraits in the style of American artist Chuck Close. We began by working from a ...
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This lesson is a group project for up to 20 students inspired by the portrait paintings of Chuck Close.
The legendary artist has radically upended his distinctive style of portraiture — and his entire life. Why?
