Chuck Close has an almost photographic memory for things that are flat, but for 3 dimensional things that move around – things like faces – he is effectively blind. His …
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Chuck Close; About Face
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Painting from Photographs: Copyright Considerations
I posted recently about how originality is not really what we’re built for. You can read that post here. After saying how natural copying is, I thought I should follow …
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Impressionists and Photography
PAINTING FROM PHOTOGRAPHS We put a lot of pressure on artists (on ourselves) to be original. We think we should be able to turn that blank canvas into something no …
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Leon Golub and Painting from Photographs
Leon Golub was an awkward man who made ugly paintings. They’re about power mostly. Violence, war, and other unhappy things. I learned about Golub in art school, around the first years of …
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