Art is the cure !

As in the previous blog i talked about the Alzheimer disease which left the artist William Utermohlen completely stranded between himself and his art and how it shows his progress throughout his diagnose i will be reflecting again but on a different artist.

Chuck Close is mostly know for his photo-based portraits in which they are done in a huge large scale. During his time he was diagnosed with a rare spinal artery which left him parlayed for his entire life, but by this it didn't stop him from the one things he loved and managed to find another way around it and see how he will managed to make it work. Since he was paralyzed he wasn't able to move his arms a lot so he manage to make a strapped around his wrist and forearm which allows to keep the brush in hold while he paints.
Since his works are done on really large canvases he find it much more easier if he divides the canvas into small sections by this to him his comparing to to a new vocabulary in the making in which that it is build up one by one throughout the process giving enough time for each one. When his work are viewed from a close view you managed to see only patch of solid color either red blue or any type of color near each other this is obviously done due to his condition but when his work is viewed from a different perspective it is allowing you to see the full work, you will be impressed on how he managed to portraits the face in the exact highly detailed finish as if it was just had been photographed but in a more abstract way.

Emma
2002
Photorealism

From his work we can see how art allowed him to open new doors for him and helped him to gain confidence enough to create these magnificent pieces rather than just giving up even tough they were made in the exact same manner as art sometimes works.

References

Close, C. and Biography.com Editors, (2015). Chuck Close. [online] Biography. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/chuck-close-9251491 [Accessed 16 Mar. 2017].

Pace, (n.d.). Pace Gallery - Chuck Close. [online] Pace Gallery. Available at: http://www.pacegallery.com/artists/80/chuck-close [Accessed 16 Mar. 2017].

The Art Story, (n.d.). Chuck Close Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works. [online] The Art Story. Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-close-chuck.htm [Accessed 17 Mar. 2017].