In the 1980s, Chuck Close initiated a new technique for creating portraits, which set aside his systematic execution and application of the grid: fingerprints. Using an arduous and time-consuming ...

Chuck Close, one of the most important ... where he moved in 1967, Mr. Close became a marquee figure thanks to his monumental portraits. Painted from photographs taken by Mr. Close and executed ...

Ever since he burst on the scene in 1968 with the nearly 9-foot-high, surly and seedy, and triumphantly hyperreal “Big Self-Portrait,” Chuck Close has diligently sought to undo all those ...

A visitor can taste that difficulty of description even now in the first room of "Chuck Close: Self-Portraits, 1967-2005," which opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Close's "Big ...

Chuck Close's attorney ... Known for his photorealistic portraits Close began using art as a way to navigate a learning disability. As a student at the University of Washington and Yale, he ...

NEW YORK — Chuck Close, a painter, photographer and printmaker best known for his monumental grid portraits and photo-based paintings of family and famous friends, has died. He was 81.

Chuck Close, whose larger-than-life portraits, some composed of thousands of small but intricate paintings that served as pixels, made him one of the most renowned artists of the past half century ...

One of Close's most innovative prints is this portrait of his wife Leslie, done completely in fingerprints that were made into an engraving and then printed on silk which was then glued to a larger ...

Chuck Close, a photographer and an artist known for painting photorealistic portraits, has died at the age of 81. His lawyer, John Silberman, announced on Thursday that he died in a hospital in ...