Daniel Lubetzky

Ovation Cable TV had a special today on Chuck Close, an American artist/painter whose work is extraordinary.  Take a look on google images and in this website.  No less extraordinary is his background and the challenges he overcame along his life, never letting setbacks keep him down, always surmounting tragedies to come out stronger.  This article does a good job describing his life. He is not just an artist on canvas, but a man who exemplifies the triumphs of the human spirit. His work reflects his efforts to push himself to discover new techniques that keep pushing the envelope. 

Mark (1978 – 1979), acrylic on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. Detail at right of eye. Mark, a painting that took Close fourteen months to complete, was constructed from a series of airbrushed layers that imitated CMYK color printing. Compare the picture’s integrity close up with the later work below, executed through a different technique.

Lucas (1986 – 1987), acrylic on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. Detail at right of eye. The pencil grid and thin undercoat of blue is visible beneath the splotchy "pixels." The painting’s subject is fellow artist Lucas Samaras.

This painting was created from his fingerprints!