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Chuck Close's True Grid
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For years, Chuck Close has been mesmerizing viewers with huge,
iconic paintings of his own bearded, bespectacled face, wowing them
from afar with his photo-realist precision, and awing them, close up,
with the obsessive intensity of his expressive, handmade marks.
No ordinary photo-realist, Close has always done things the hard
way, gridding the head and shoulder shots he took of himself, his
family and friends, and then, according to a centuries-old system,
enlarging them onto his giant canvases. He then multiplies his
task-and impact-by dividing the surface into a finer grid, filling ...
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