Chuck Close: Art Saved My Life

Art helped me learn to express the feelings I couldn’t say and during that time period and I choosing to study it is the greatest decision I have ever made. Art is the reason I live now. It gives me hope, happiness, and an ability to escape. I love how it can change my view and to make me feel things. This year one of my illustrations was hung in the Museum of Contemporary Art: La Jolla, and I could not be prouder.

Chuck Close was born on July 5, 1940, in Monroe, Washington. Suffering from severe dyslexia. Chuck close suffered 3 diseases that we're called dyslexia, prosopagnosia (face blindness), and was paralyzed neck down. He was best known for large scale photo realistic paintings and went to university of washington.

In New York there was an art museum called The Whitney Museum of American Art they were the first ones to display Chucks works of art. From there Chuck had became more and more known because of his art works and other exhibits displaying his canvas’s. “Even during those recurring moments in the cycle of art world fashion when painting has been pronounced dead, the relevance of his work has remained evident. One of the strengths of his work is that, since it has never been in style, it can never go out of style. It is unaffected by fashion( The Ebook).” In 1988, Chuck had a spinal artery rupture after this incident he almost became permanently paralyzed from the neck down. He regained consciousness from lots of therapy and rehab but he never let the fatal accident of his spinal artery jeopardize his career. Some people think because of his accident he became an even better

On July 5th, 1940 Chuck Close was born in Monroe, Washington. He only had 1 sibling, who’s name is Martin Close, his brother. Life when he was young was not to easy for him. He was dyslexic, a disorder that makes it difficult to read and write. Because his teachers did not know he had dyslexia, he was thought of as lazy, and teachers thought he didn’t do his work because of that. In his early 20’s, he became paralyzed from the neck down due

Chuck Close is an artist who was born July 4 1940 in Monroe Washington. In school he had dyslexia which made it hard for him to read or write, but he was amazing at art. His parents were also artist and supported his art all the way, then his dad died and his mother got breast cancer and then he got a kidney infection which put him in bed for almost a full year. But after all that he went to the University of Washington School of Arts and

Chuck Close is a painter and educator that went to University of Washington. His full name is Charles Thomas Close. He was born on July 5th, 1940 in monroe, washington. He is noted for highly intentive techniques used to paint the human face. Close did poorly in all subjects in school except art. The son of very artistic parents. Disaster struck when he was eleven. His dad died and his mom fell ill with breast cancer.

American artist Chuck Close was born in july5, 1940. He is still alive today at 77 years old. When he was younger he had a lot of challenges in life. When he was in school he was not good at math or reading because of his learning disability called dyslexia. The only thing he was good at was art and with the help and support of his parents he eventually Graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. and then received his M.A. from Yale University.

Chuck Close is also known as Charles Close was born in Monroe, Washington July fifth 1940 he is recently the age of 76. Chuck was born with severe dyslexia that at the time wasn't a thing so everybody thought he was dumb. Not only this, but he also had neuromuscular which meant he could barely lift his feet . Chuks parents were artists and encouraged him to follow his dream of becoming an artist. Chuck Went to Everett Community College. When chuck was fourteen his mother took him to an art museum. One of the newer artworks was a drip paint picture using tar aluminum paint gravel etc. He was so outraged because it did not fit

“There’s a real joy in putting all these little marks together. They may look like hot dogs, but with them I build a painting.” Chuck Close. Chuck Close is a 76 year old artist whom is also little control of his arms and legs . Chuck is most well known for his very large scale portraits.

Charles Thomas ‘Chuck’ Close was born an only child in 1940 Monroe, Washington to parents that both held a sight for artistic endeavors. He is known to everyone outside of his family as ‘Chuck,’ a name he has always hated. It was in high school where he made attempts at individuation that he started referring to himself as Chuck. Only by an accidental dubbing taken place during an interview in 1968 that this stuck as his professional art name. His father passed away when Chuck was eleven forcing him and his mother to move homes for the fifth time by the age of twelve. Growing up, Close showed difficulty in his academics and social life which led to being tested and diagnosed with dyslexia. Out of his learning disability it became apparent that he suffered from another disability known as prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia is a condition in which he cannot recognize faces. He stated that “people I look at all look immediately familiar to me, but I have tremendous difficulty figuring out who it is and where I've seen them before. I never can memorize.” He developed his own system of memorizing by sensory deprivation and used art as a way to prove that he wasn't exaggerating his condition.

Chuck Close was born in July 5, 1940. As a child Close had trouble paying attention due to his dyslexia, leading

I was just sitting there, in a dark room, not knowing what to do. Consequently, I frequently felt like a failure. Made me petrified, frightened, terrified that I was not approaching to be able to escape, and that I’d just be a homeless man. Because I believed that I could never find happiness, nor ever have found passion in anything. This consequently made me begin to envision that I was going to become a failure. I have always had the belief that art and graphic design were the attributes that I was passionate about, only to turn out that it was not as effortless as I once thought. Me being an ignorant person, I did not take into consideration that it is an extremely competitive field to be in. I just didn’t have the knowledge about what to do at this point. However, little did I realize, the fad that I had the utmost passion for were right in my ears: music.

Chuck close was born in 1940 in america and has always been a painter and has always been noticed for his paintings since he was little.Chuck close is a visual artist, his portraits are nine feet tall and looks like a real picture taken from an actual photographer.But he actually did was take a medium sized picture of the person that he's going to draw and place it on a type of format the he is able to move up and down,side to side so it’s easier to be able to paint.

Chuck Close an American photorealist artist who was born in the US during the 40’s and as a result lived his teens & 20’s through the emergence of the American counterculture. As a result of the politics and world events at this time, much change was experienced by Chuck Close and he became a part of challenging social norms. These ideas and experiences are influential on his work and impact in various ways on his unique style in his artworks, as seen in his 1970 work called “Big Self-Portrait.” During the summer of 1988, Chuck also suffered a sudden rupture of a spinal artery which resulted in Chuck needing more assistance whilst he was working on his portraits.

Born in New York City on February 3 of year 1894, Norman Perceval Rockwell was destined for fame and great artistry. At the age of 14, Norman already knew what he wanted to be-an artist. He was then enrolled in art classes at The New York School of Art (also known formerly as the