Bill Badzo
Nancy ~ Milwaukee Wisconsin ~ Chuck Close ~ MAM
Chuck Close mapped out a singular style by drawing upon elements of Pop Art, Minimalism, and Photo-Realism. Taking the photographic portrait as his subject, presenting it on a colossal scale and then putting it through a complex process of deconstruction and analytic reconstruction, Close created a new kind of art. Antecedents for his approach can be found in advertising billboards and much further back in Renaissance techniques of squaring up drawings for transfer to large-scale fresco paintings. A work such as Nancy, an intense rendering of Close’s friend the artist Nancy Graves
Nancy ~ Milwaukee Wisconsin ~ Chuck Close ~ MAM
Chuck Close mapped out a singular style by drawing upon elements of Pop Art, Minimalism, and Photo-Realism. Taking the photographic portrait as his subject, presenting it on a colossal scale and then putting it through a complex process of deconstruction and analytic reconstruction, Close created a new kind of art. Antecedents for his approach can be found in advertising billboards and much further back in Renaissance techniques of squaring up drawings for transfer to large-scale fresco paintings. A work such as Nancy, an intense rendering of Close’s friend the artist Nancy Graves