Chuck Close, American painter and photographer. He's got some good stuff. He does a lot of portraits, some of himself and some of his friends and other people. It's not often you see artist going for the classic hyper-realistic approach that was so common back before abstraction blew up and cameras took over the world with their selfies and whatnot. I like Huck Lose a lot for his paintings being so up close (ha) to the subjects face and the scale at which he paints at is also remarkable.
The closest things I could find to abstraction in his work where these paintings I believed he called "pixel" paintings (don't quote me) and even these have an astonishing amount of detail in them. It looks as you're staring through a stained glass kaleidoscope, The use of color is really interesting, it uses the same colors he probably use in those areas but makes them more noticeable, or at least that's what I think is going on, I'm not sure, I don't paint.
These last two have a very 80s vinetage-esque filter type deal going on, and it reminded me of Fargo so that's also pretty cool.
SOLID, This blog is very good. Your commenary on his different styles was very good, HOWEVER you have to tone it down with the goods. Because of all the goods I gotta give this a 3 hoots out of 10. 🌭🌭🌭
ReplyDeleteYou've used the word good 4x the number I used it, 8x if you count the second time you wrote this comment.
DeleteSOLID, This blog is very good. Your commenary on his different styles was very good, HOWEVER you have to tone it down with the goods. Because of all the goods I gotta give this a 3 hoots out of 10. 🌭🌭🌭
ReplyDeletelol zack and water you guys are funny. walter i like your blog and posts I think you are doing a good job you need a little bit more writing also the background hurts my eyes :x
ReplyDeleteYour description of Chuck Close is great! It was interesting to read and you gave your opinions towards Close! By the way, it was fun to read the sense of humor in one of your paragraphs as well. Great blog post!
ReplyDeleteThis post has a lot of really great info on the artist and some great examples of his work; I like how you compared some of them to a movie, it was interesting to sort of think about. I think this post really well thought out. But as a side note, there were a lot of glaring typo's that really bugged me, and I told myself I wouldn't mention them because that always makes me look like a jackass, but I'm doing it anyways. On a less useless note, I like all the puns, keep up the good work, the world need more puns.
ReplyDeleteNo, please notice my typos. It bothers me much more than it probably bothers you that they exist. Letting me know that I'm screwing up will only result in better quality puns.
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