Charles Close Research Paper

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Charles Thomas Close is well-acknowledged and admired for his highly inventive techniques used to paint the human face. He was born on July 5, 1940 in Monroe, Washington. He was the son of two artistic parents. They showed much interest in his early creative interest. Unfortunately, Charles had a learning disability from severe dyslexia. Throughout school, he struggled in all subjects except for art. His neuromuscular condition prevented him from being able to attend any sports. That was just the beginning of a young Charles’s childhood. At the age 11, his father died and his mother went ill from breast cancer. Right before he thought his life couldn’t go much worse, his health took a turn as he suffered from a kidney infection which landed him stuck in a bed for about a year. …show more content…

At the age of 14, Charles was very inspired by Jackson Pollock and his art. His work and style had a huge impact on a young Charles. That gave him much determination to pursue his life as an artist. He was enrolled at the University of Washington, which soon graduated in 1962. After that, he instantly started to migrate east to Yale for him to get a Master of Fine Arts from University’s Art and Architecture school. He soon figured out his passion for Yale wasn’t that deep, which turned his focus on photo-realism. He made large-format polaroids of models and would recreate them on big canvases. His method was described as “knitting”. His early work some people would clarify as bold, intimate and up-front, replicating those particular details of the selected faces he did. His work had a blend of both painting and photography in a way no one has ever accomplished before. That paved the way to the development of the inkjet

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