Chuck Close (Trailer)

"Chuck Close" is an Arthouse release now available through Microcinema DVD. To order this DVD and/or other Microcinema titles, go to: www.microcinemadvd.com.

Chuck Close, an astounding portrait of one of the world's leading contemporary painters, was one of two parting gifts (her second is a film on Louise Bourgeois) from Marion Cajori, a filmmaker who died recently, and before her time. With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland, Chuck Close limns the life and work of a man who has reinvented portraiture. Close photographs his subjects, blows up the image to gigantic proportions, divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face. The genius of this film is not only to allow the artist to illuminate his methodology (he is wonderfully articulate), but also to feature his friends and colleagues (Brice Marden, Robert Storr, Dorothea Rockburne, Philip Glass, Arne Glimcher, Kiki Smith, Elizabeth Murray, Alex Katz, Kirk Varnedoe, among others) who make important contributions to appreciating Close's gifts.

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• Chuck Close
• photorealism
• hyperrealism
• Brice Marden
• Robert Storr
• Dorothea Rockburne
• Philip Glass
• Arne Glimcher
• Kiki Smith
• Elizabeth Murray
• Alex Katz
• Kirk Varnedoe

[TheCRussellSwag]

We're using this to do our self-portraits. :D

[AnnaTheMuseFreak]

We used his technique in our art lessons xD

[MrAguafiesta]

@link0zeldarulz89 i agree the attention to detail and concentration is hard to fathom, incredible.

[david292978]

the man also has the perfect last name for what he does.

[link0zeldarulz89]

This artwork is incredible. He's painted photos of somebody's head on a larger scale canvas. Photorealism and Hyperrealism are just mind blowing.

[Starwheel6]

Is Chuck eating shrooms? Just wondering.

The work is lilting toward the psychedelic a bit.

Uninhibited luminous awareness squared, sealed & delivered.