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Chuck Close

1940 - 2021

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Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very large format camera. He adapted his painting style and working methods in 1988, after being paralyzed by an occlusion of the anterior spinal artery. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chuck Close is the 1,550th most popular painter (up from 1,636th in 2019), the 6,049th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,892nd in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Chuck Close ranks 1,550 out of 2,023. Before him are Óscar Domínguez, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Zhang Xuan, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Pavel Fedotov, and Alexander Bogomazov. After him are Fanny Churberg, Vicente López Portaña, Pieter Pourbus, Frans Pourbus the Elder, Adolph Tidemand, and Georg Schrimpf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Chuck Close ranks 305. Before him are José Nápoles, Jurandir de Freitas, Giacomo Bulgarelli, Frankie Avalon, Peter Gethin, and Valie Export. After him are Kurt Ahrens Jr., Francesco Guccini, Conny Plank, Reinhard Bonnke, John Warnock, and Grigory Kriss. Among people deceased in 2021, Chuck Close ranks 312. Before him are Medea Abrahamyan, R. Murray Schafer, Agustín Balbuena, Pat Martino, Andrej Hoteev, and Martí Vergés. After him are Dragan Pantelić, William Smith, Mari Törőcsik, Charlie Robinson, Frederic Rzewski, and Mustafa Ben Halim.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chuck Close ranks 6,049 out of 20,380. Before him are Susan George (1934), Joshua Angrist (1960), Sandy Martin (1949), Chester Thompson (1948), Dixie Carter (1939), and Steve Anderson (1906). After him are Abella Danger (1995), Jim Gibbons (1944), Harrison Ford (1884), Kenneth Bainbridge (1904), Cassady McClincy (2000), and Stuart Gordon (1947).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Chuck Close ranks 69. Before him are Robert Ryman (1930), Kenneth Noland (1924), George Segal (1924), Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930), Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847), and Edwin Austin Abbey (1852). After him are Robert Henri (1865), Haddon Sundblom (1899), Joan Mitchell (1925), Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), and Alice Pike Barney (1857).

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