Chuck Close, Up Close And Impersonal; At the Hirshhorn, Staring Abstraction Right in the Face From: The Washington Post | Date: October 22, 1998| Author: Henry Allen | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Landscape painting banished people from the canvas. Abstraction outlawed their return except as generalities. Chuck Close has hunted down the outcasts for 30 years, stunned them into helplessness with photographs and frozen them alive with his gridwork paintings.

After an early career as what he calls a "junior abstract expressionist," Close caught photorealism on the rise with a 9-by-7-foot black-and-white acrylic of himself in 1969.

As a portrait, it was an art school ...

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