IDENTITY

CHUCK CLOSE
CHUCK CLOSE
 CHUCK CLOSE
Chuck Close (b. 1940, Monroe, WA) is
renowned for his highly inventive
techniques of painting the human face, and
is best known for his large-scale, photo-
based portrait paintings. In 1988, Close
was paralyzed following a rare spinal artery
collapse; he continues to paint using a
brush-holding device strapped to his wrist
and forearm. His practice extends beyond
painting to encompass printmaking,
photography, and, most recently, tapestries
based on Polaroids.
http://www.artsobserver.com/2011/11/06/chuck-close-portrait-
at-ifpda-print-fair-reflects-the-artists-innovative-approach /
http://www.magnoliaeditions.com/artworks/ci
ndy/
SALLY MANN
Best known for photographs of her family, Sally
Mann began to make self-portraits after a
severe horseback-riding accident in 2006.
Determined to work but unable to lift her
heavy camera, she set it up in one position and
photographed herself repeatedly using the
19th-century ambrotype process. Allowing the
physical surface of the glass plates to convey a
sense of disintegration and loss, Mann seems
to confront her own physical dissolution in this
work.
"The Memory of Time: Contemporary
Photographs at the National Gallery of Art"
runs through September 13: 
http://1.usa.gov/1Lcfq93.
Sally Mann, "Untitled (Self-Portraits)," 2006-
2012, nine ambrotypes, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M.
Schad Fund, © Sally Mann/Courtesy of Edwynn
Houk
Aldo Tolino
kühle streicher – facial landscapes
Michael Roberts
EXPERIMENT WITH DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES
PLACE IN A SPECIFIC CONTEXT
 SCALE

Gottfried Helnwein “The last Child”

Kindskopf (Head of a Child) 1991 by Gottfried

Helnwein
DISTORTION OF
PREPORTION
TAKAHIRO KIMURA
 CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THINGS

Students
work
inspired
by Escher

Escher
 Wes Naman

EXPERIMENT
 PHOTOSHOP

Antonio Mora
Rael Brian
Rupert Shrive
SANDRA CHEVRIER