Chuck Close

Chuck Close is an American painter and photographer who is known for his photo-realism and massive paintings. I first heard of him on the Colbert Report and was intrigued by his style of art. He creates paintings by using a process called gridding. This process basically involves composing a painting out of small blocks, and he makes each block an abstract art piece. What I found interesting about him is that despite having Prosopagnosia, which is also known as face blindness, he specializes in portraits. He claims that he didn't know his wife's face two years in to his marriage. He remembers faces by flattening them into the paintings that he creates, as the face blindness is caused by errant depth perception. Click here for photo gallery. Here are some of his paintings that I liked: