Two Part Self-Portrait
Chuck Close
1989
- Medium
- Internal dye diffusion transfer print
- Dimensions
- Each image: 61 × 52.2 cm (24 1/16 × 20 9/16 in.); each paper: 75 × 56 cm (29 9/16 × 22 1/16 in.); frame: 90.6 × 120.2 × 7.5 cm (35 11/16 × 47 3/8 × 3 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
photographyinternal dye diffusion transfer printPolaroid (TM) filmphotographphotographic processinternal dye diffusion transfer process
About
Chuck Close makes monumental portrait paintings based on photographs, following the same procedure each time: he covers a closely cropped photograph in a grid and then replicates the source image at a larger scale. After becoming partially paralyzed in 1988, the artist deepened his engagement with photography, as he explored potentially painterly results in a finished photograph. This 20 × 24–inch Polaroid diptych gives us a portrait of the artist as a two-part fragment, like two panes in one of his gridded paintings.
