Face, the final frontier When Chuck Close began painting portraits in the late 1960s, there were few more unfashionable subjects. Today his monumental canvases inspire widespread admiration and imitation. By Jane Burton

From: The Independent - London | Date: July 22, 1999 | Copyright information

According to Chuck Close, his airbrushed paintings inspired the inkjet printer. "It came out of this Japanese guy who saw an exhibition of mine in LA in 1970 or `71," he explains. "I was spraying just three colours, different amounts and intensities of red over yellow over blue. He went back and invented ink jet printing."

Manipulating modern technologies is a favourite game of contemporary art, and the dots and dabs from which Close builds his works have frequently been compared to pi...

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