Chuck Close Big Self Portrait Analysis
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Completed in 1968, the “Big Self Portrait” was one of the first mural-sized paintings based off multiple photographs Chuck Close took of himself. This mural-sized painting took Chuck Close 4 months to complete, and the photorealist technique was done by the grid technique; in which grids were down on the photographed image, and consequently transferred onto the canvas individually. Chuck Close was interested in how a photograph can depict both focused and blurred areas, and wanted to use this painting to explore the camera’s field of depth and focusing qualities.
This painting was also done after the Abstract Expressionism movement in which Chuck Close has grown up against. I was mesmerized by the “Big self Portrait” amongst all of his other