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Young chuck close biography
Chuck Close
American painter (1940–2021)
Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others.
Close also created photo portraits using a very large format camera. He adapted his painting style and working methods in 1988, after being paralyzed by an occlusion of the anterior spinal artery.
Early life and education
Chuck Close was born in Monroe, Washington.[1] His father, Leslie Durward Close, died when Chuck was 11 years old.
His mother's name was Mildred Wagner Close.[2] As a child, Close had a neuromuscular condition that made it difficult to lift his feet and a bout with nephritis that kept him out of school for most of sixth grade.
Even when in school, he did poorly due to his dyslexia, which was not diagnosed at the time.[3]
Most of his early works were very large portraits based on photographs, us