After researching on the artist Cindy Sherman, we then started to research on another artist called Chuck Close; in order to get more familiar with his famous grid- technique portraits. Throughout my research based on Chuck Close, I've discovered that most of the work by Chuck Close, is based on the use of a grid as a underlying basis. Chuck Close is indeed a very creative person who uses many techniques and methods. Everything he makes is from photographs and images because as my teacher always mentions, artists generally use primary source images rather than a secondary source image; meaning they generally take photographs and print it out rather than finding images from the media. After he has his primary source image ready, he then cuts those images down into small pieces which allows him to concentrate onto one piece of image. Furthermore, all his portraits are either his family, friends, relative or even himself. He also believes that a person's face shows what kind of life they had.
However, before we were instructed to create a double page based on Chuck Close, as a class, we had watched a video about Chuck Close which presented the techniques of Chuck Close and his process through creating portraits and as a homework, we were asked to continue watching the video as it was quite long and take down notes.
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