John
1971-72 acrylic on gessoed canvas 100 x 90 in. (254 x 228.6 cm) Chuck Close is an artist known for such huge portraits in photorealistic style. Regarding his techniques, as he is working with a variety of drawing and painterly techniques, like printmaking, tapestry, and photography, in this painting John, he also refers to photography to make the painting. The hyper-realistic element is important to him so he uses mechanical elements to move the image to the canvas although working only using his sight ‘to achieve the intensely animate detail, sectioning off the reference photographs into grids and transferring ...
