Chuck Close Lucas Rug

77 h 66 w in.

Chuck close lucas rug.

Chuck close reinvented painting with his monumental portraits rendered with exquisite exacting realism from photographic sources playing with ideas of scale color and form close has become famous for his rigorous gridded application of individual color squares which although abstract up close form unified highly realistic images from afar. While the piece looks fairly realistic from afar up close it is composed of hundreds of small circles of solid color. A d gallery new york. From rago wright chuck close lucas rug unapproved color variant 1993 hand loomed silk on linen warp 77 1 2 66 in.

Detail chuck close lucas rug 1993. Alex chuck lucas pace editions new york march 10 april 13 1995. Tweed museum of art duluth picture. Chuck close s lucas rug 1993 is a handmade rug woven with richly colored silk.

It is done on silk with linen wrap. The graphics dean jensen gallery milwaukee january 20 march 4 1995. All works contemporary. Check out tripadvisor members 7 375 candid photos and videos of tweed museum of art.

Aug 29 2019 this is done by chuck close in 1993 named lucas rug. It depicts a bearded man staring out at the viewer. Silk with linen ed. It took him about four years to do this by each.

1993 hand loomed silk on linen warp. It depicts a bearded man staring out at the viewer. They go beyond the hyper reality of his earlier portraits and elaborate on his pictorial investigation of the act of perception breaking down the visual information into component parts that describe the. Lucas rug unapproved color variant.

Paintings such as lucas which depicts fellow artist lucas samaras are representative of close s later more colorful and painterly style. From rago wright chuck close lucas rug 1993 hand loomed silk on linen warp 78 1 2 66 in. 8 peintures récentes fondation cartier pour l art contemporain paris september 24 october 23 1994.