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…
No matter what tragedies appeared, he deepened his passion for painting and art overall.
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
printer. In the 1960’s, Close and his pieces were entered in the New York City art scene. His best work was of another young talented artist named Philip Glass, whose work Charles painted and presented in 1969. Later on, he painted choreographer Merce Cunningham and former President Bill Clinton, among others. Close’s work was shown in the world’s finest galleries in the 1970’s. He was widely considered one of America’s best contemporary artists. Later in his life, Charles once again experienced the trauma of severe health issues which he soon suffered the sudden rupture of a spiral artery. That left Charles entirely paralyzed. Even after the sessions of physical therapy, Charles still became stuck in a wheelchair permanently. He started to regain some partial use of his limbs. That didn’t stop Close from achieving his goals. He just pressed forward and continue on his work. He proceeded to paint, but he did it in a style that was more abstract and less précised. Throughout the years, style and technique did nothing but progressed. His reputation and standing have not suffered in the least. In the late 2000’s, President Bill Clinton named Close a recipient of the National Medal of Arts. Later in 2007, Close became the subject of a full-length documentary “Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress”, by director Marion Cajor. There took many obstacles and minor setbacks throughout Charles’s artistically interesting life. He still is alive to this day. Him and his wife, Leslie, live in New York City and Long Island, New York. Where they live with no regrets or worries in their satisfied life.
Jarrod J. Rein is an eighteen-year-old with dark brown hair and brown eyes to match the brown arid dirt of Piedmont, Oklahoma. His skin is a smooth warm tan glow that opposes his white smile making his teeth look like snow. Standing a great height of six foot exactly, his structure resembles a bear. He is attending Piedmont high school where he in his last year of high school (senior year). He is studying to be a forensics anthropologist. Also he is studying early in the field of anatomy to be successful in his profession. While not always on the rise for knowledge Jarrod’s swimming for his high school. In a sense it’s like you see double.
Fully skilled in many fields Charles Peale was known as an American Leonardo. Living from 1741-1827 Peale was the eldest of 5 children who grew up in Chestertown Maryland (Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography). Because of being a scientist, artist, saddler, watchmaker, silversmith, upholsterer, soldier, politician and inventor, Charles Peale earned the title of a true enlightenment man. Inventing a new type of spectacles, porcelain false teeth, a steam bath and a stove that consumed its own smoke, Peale certainly was superiorly innovative (Strickland 72). While being trained in the trade of saddle making, Peale decided, at the age of 21, that painting would be a better route to take. In 1776 he settled in Philadelphia and during the American revolutionary war, Peale served as a militia officer from 1776-1778 and continued to paint throughout this whole time. With his three wives, Rachel Brewer, Elizabeth DePeyster and Hannah Moore, Peale had 17 children (Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography). Due to his insatiable interest and curiosity Willson Peale founded a natural history museum...
Lawrence Willoughby, an African American male, was born in 1881 in Pitt County, North Carolina. He was the son of Lannie Anderson and X Willoughby. Lawrence married at 22,a woman by the name of Jennie Best on December 20, 1903. Records says that the two married in Pitt County, North Carolina. They had eight children in 13 years. He died on August 4, 1951, in Greenville, North Carolina, at the age of 70.
He got a lot of his inspiration from his mother. She loved painting with water colors and making
To this day Charles Carroll of Carrollton is best known for his political leadership in his hometown Maryland. Penning the First Citizen letters in 1773 was Carroll, a wealthy man who became a major role in the patriot movement. As a member of the Continental Congress, Carroll was one of the singers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In fact, He also helped to write Maryland’s Constitution of 1776. Once American independence was accomplished, he served in the United States Senate and the Maryland legislature.1 Being the last to live of the signers, Charles journey is full of schooling, political and religious matter, and being a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Jackson Pollock was an American abstract artist born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912. He was the youngest of his five brothers. Even though he was born on a farm, he never milked a cow and he was terrified of horses because he grew up in California. He dropped out of high school at the age of seventeen and proceeded to move to New York City with his older brother, Charles, and studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Thomas Benton was already a great artist at the time in which Pollock studied with him. Benton acted like the father figure in Pollock’s life to replace the original that wasn’t there. Benton was known for his large murals that appear on ceilings or walls. “Jack was a rebellious sort at all times,” recalls his classmate and friend, artist Harold Lehman. He grew his hair long and helped pen a manifesto denouncing athletics, even though “he had a muscular build and the school wanted to put him on the football team,” says former teacher Doug Lemon. Pollock always was upset with himself in his studies because he had troubles drawing things like they were supposed to look. From 1938 to 1942, Jackson joined a Mexican workshop of people with a painter named David Siqueiros. This workshop painted the murals for the WPA Federal Art Projects. This new group of people started experimenting with new types of paint and new ways of applying it to large canvas. People say that this time period was when Jackson was stimulated with ideas from looking at the Mexican or WPA murals. Looking at paintings from Picasso and the surrealists also inspired Jackson at this time. The type of paint they used was mixing oil colors with paint used for painting cars. Jackson noticed that the shapes and colors they created were just as beautiful as anything else was. Jackson realized that you didn’t have to be able to draw perfect to make beautiful paintings. Jackson started developing a whole new way of painting that he had never tried before and his paintings were starting to look totally different from before.
While his life was building up to the moment he became rich off of his creativity, it helped him become the man he is today. No matter how unique his life has been, one thing has been a constant in his life, along with many others; He was influenced by the color and personality shown through a piece of art, which was the intent in the first place.
While talking about Chuck Close it is important to note his life style as a child. At the age of 4 years old, he loved to draw, so Close new that he wanted to be an artist when he got older. Close did not partake in many sporting activities because he was diagnosed with dyslexia, which kept him from being capable of playing with friends. By the age of 11, Close has already experienced a difficult life as a child but tragedies kept piling up for him such as, developing nephritis (a kidney infection), his mother getting breast cancer, his father dying, and his grandmother developing Parkinson’s disease and then losing the...
Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27th, 1923. He described his childhood as quiet and uneventful. His father was a realtor; his mother was a housewife. Art was not taught at the school Roy attended, but when he turned fourteen he began taking Saturday morning classes at the Parson’ School of Design. After he graduated from high school in 1940 he attended the School of Fine Art at Ohio State University. He was drafted however in 1943 in the middle of his education at Ohio State. While he was in the military he served in Great Britain and Europe. When he returned to the U.S. in 1946, he completed his studies for his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Ohio State University in 1949. After he got his degree he immediately began teaching at Ohio State and kept teaching there until 1951. He then taught at New York State University College, Oswego from 1957 until 1961 when he transferred and began teaching at Douglas College of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ he stopped teaching there in 1963. Later that year Roy moved to New York where he was commissioned by the architect Philip Johnson to produce large format painting for the New York State Pavilion at the World’s Fair in New York. This year he also had his first one-man exhibition in Europe at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. He was given his first American retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Cleveland in 1963 also. Other exhibitions where Roy was represented in ...
Art was always a part of Charles’s life and throughout his life he created over 2,000 paintings and sculptures of the Indians and landscapes in the West, developing nicknames like “Kid” Russell and ‘The Cowboy Artist”. While he grew up in Missouri, Montana, he would draw sketches and make little clay figures, some say he was so good that he could make clay figure behind his back and he had a very strong interest and fascination with the “Wild West” often reading hours on end about cowboys and adventures.
Born in 1886 Diego Rivera was born to a wealthy family living in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of two his twin brother died and a year later Diego Rivera started drawing, his parents caught him drawing on walls and instead of punishing him nurtured his artistic side by enabling him with the supplies he needed. Throughout his life Diego Rivera was dedicated to art, “He began to study painting at an early age and in 1907 moved to Europe. Spending most of the next fourteen years in Paris, Rivera encountered the works of such great masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse.” Influenced by the work of such great minds Rivera began the search for his own signature and contribution to modern art, “Rivera was searching for a new form of painting, one that could express the complexities of his day and still reach a wide audience.” Rivera found the medium he was looking for, a form of street art involving murals painted on fresh plaster, he returned to Mexico to introduce this new form of art to the public. Rivera soon sewed himself into the art community in America, “His outgoing personality puts him at ...
Throughout the 1920's, art, through dancing, singing, painting, photographing and acting became a pastime and provided individualized entertainment and lively joy for those of the time. Many had the ability to discover passions that were previously unavailable for everyone to explore, due to the need to be working harsh hours to provide for their families. Edward Harper became immersed in art, with a simple beginning of an illustrator. He was born in 1882, from small town Upper Nyack in the state New York. He took interest in art from a very young age, and would draw extremely well at a young age. His strict, religious, but caring parents were able to support him, and they sent him to school to become an illustrator, as it was the most realistic
Friendly’s, a restaurant founded in 1935, has provided many families with decent food and service for the last several decades. There are nearly 400 locations across the U.S. today. A family-friendly menu consists of many delicious entrees for adults and children alike. Their signature ice cream has been a favorite of many people all along. Friendly’s is quite unique and visiting there is a great experience for anyone to have. Many customers always come back, and business is pretty great despite filing bankruptcy in 2011. Personally speaking, Friendly’s is my favorite restaurant. I even went there for my dinner before attending prom, yes, I went to an American-diner style establishment in my very flashy prom dress. The food is great. There is no reason to blame me.
Chuck Close is one of the few people who never gave up. Chuck Close is an artist who does photorealism artwork. He became Famous for his artwork in the late 1960s. This essay will include his early years of his life and his later years.
Chuck Close, born July 5, 1940 is an American painter who became famous as a photorealist, through his massive scale portraits. Chuck often paints abstract portraits, which hang in collections internationally. Although a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors. Chuck also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera.Chuck Close is noted for his highly inventive techniques used to paint the human face. He rose to fame in the late 1960s for his large-scale, photo-realist portraits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Close.