chuck close: theory and practice

“The way you chose to do something is as important as what you choose to do…”

- Chuck Close

“The way you chose to do something is as important as what you choose to do…”

- Chuck Close

FORM = CONTENT

THE HOW: FORM1) Elements of Art2) Principles of Design3) Physical materials used in a work’s creation.

THE HOW: FORM1) Elements of Art2) Principles of Design3) Physical materials used in a work’s creation.

THE WHAT: CONTENT4) What an artist intends to portray5) What an artist actually portrays6) How viewers react, as individuals, to both the

intended and actual messages.

““If you do your job right, if you do it one bit at a time, you end up with something that has emotional impact without having to resort to emotional gestures.”

- Chuck Close

“I wanted a stupid, inarticulate, uninteresting mark, that in and of itself could not be more interesting than the last work or more beautiful than the next… It was about the imposition of rigorous, self-imposed limitations that seemed to open doors.”

“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”

- Sol LeWitt

““If you do your job right, if you do it one bit at a time, you end up with something that has emotional impact without having to resort to emotional gestures.”

- Chuck Close

Works by Close at VMFA: Mediums

• Painting• Photograph• Screenprint• Woodcut• Etching• Tapestry• Unconventional methods– Use of fingerprints– Pulp “drawings”