Artist Chuck Close took WASHINGTON, DC—At the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, a pair of presidential portraits (one for each term, perhaps) is on exhibit. The tapestries by Chuck Close depict President Obama looking alternatively authoritative and amused.
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Artist Chuck Close took Chuck Close’s double portraits of President Obama are woodburytypes—a photomechanical printing process that results in a slight relief of the image. Close intended these to function as a pair, and the close-up framing, elimination of background, and dramatic lighting allow us to engage the subject eye to eye.
Close painted President Clinton Artist Chuck Close took two large-format photographs of President Obama in , one smiling, one serious, and used them to create double portraits in a variety of mediums, including these Woodburytypes, which were made through a photomechanical printing process that creates a slight relief of the image.
Close, who joined Obama's Committee on Chuck Close took two large-format Polaroid photographs of President Obama in (one smiling, one serious) and used them to create double portraits in a variety of media. In January , Ian and Annette Cumming loaned this set of tapestries to the National Portrait Gallery, where they were placed on view for President Obama’s second.
Chuck Close is known for his Close’s two tapestry portraits of the President, Obama (I) and Obama (II), are black and white portraits woven from Polaroid photographs; they are editions of 10, priced at $, each. The editions on paper are archival watercolor prints, issued in three sizes and based on the same color Polaroid image.
Chuck Close's double portraits Obama’s 3D portrait was much swifter. He sat still for 90 seconds, enduring one second of flashing light. The data gleaned translated into a master file of about 15 million triangles. Recalling the marble sculptures of presidents past, the inch, pound bust of Obama was printed in pure white.
Chuck Close was born
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (born July 5, ) is an American painter, artist and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Close also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera.