Chuck Close

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Jackson Pollock is my inspiration... I wish I could have told him

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I just realized, I'm going to be seventy-seven years old on july 5 this year... How time flies...

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The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody that will listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.

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Never let anybody define what your capable of

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2016, my work was the subject of a retrospective at the Schack Art Center in Everett, Washington, where I attended high school and college.

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I donated an original print of my "Self Portrait" in 15 years ago to the public library in Monroe, Washington.
I wonder if others enjoy it

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My painting "style" is photo realism

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this took me a year and two months to paint... All of my paintings take around that long to complete
"Mark"
#artsavedme

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"self portrait"

(Ie: painted in 1977)

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I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

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"Fanny/fingerpainting"
I used oil paints for this woman's portrait, she is my grandmother-in-law.

(Ie: painted in 1985)

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When i was fourteen, I saw this Jackson Pollock drip painting with aluminum paint, tar, gravel and more. I was outraged, disturbed.

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Working from a gridded photograph, i builds my images by applying one careful stroke after another in multi-colors or grayscale.

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I chose to make art hard for myself and force a personal breakthrough by abandoning that paintbrush.

#Abandonthebrush

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I call it "Big self-portrait"

(Ie: painted in 1968)

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Art saved my life

#Artsavedme
#iliveforart