Chuck Close, the American artist known for his striking photorealist portraits rendered on a monumental scale, died on Thursday in Long Island, New York. He was 81 years old
. Although he was best known as a painter, Close’s practice also included drawing, collage, daguerreotype and Polaroid photography, printmaking, and tapestries.
In 1988, Close was committed to a wheelchair after suffering a spinal aneurysm. During his lengthy rehabilitation, he continued to paint with the aid of an assistant, using a brush strapped onto his wrist to build portraits out of a grid of colored blocks to create a pixelated effect. Close also struggled all his life with prosopagnosia , a condition that his work actually helped him to manage. “I don’t know who anyone is and essentially have no memory at all for people in real space,”in 2010.
In recent years, Close was accused of sexual harassment by several of his female sitters between 2005 and 2013, prompting the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to indefinitely postpone an exhibition of his work planned for May 2018. On the occasion of his death, Close’s neurologist, Thomas M.
Online, the response to Close’s death yielded praise for his aesthetic and technical achievements mixed with grave acknowledgments of his complicated legacy.
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