Big emma by chuck close biography

Aleisia Balogun

Art 200.04

Professor Shahani

The Great Works of Seurat, Close & Signac

Fall 2009

When comparing pointillism, Chuck Close’s portrait “Emma”, George Seurat’s portrait “Study for La Grande Jatte” and Roy Lichtenstein’s portrait “Girl with Hair Ribbon” are all good examples of how the idea itself has changed over the years.

The way in which people use it and the way in which they understand it. This also shows how if there were never to have been such creative artists as these, that the meaning of art would not have been able to emerge into what it has become today.

All of these great artists seem to have had some similar ideas but in the end they all have distinctively different outcomes and have very different meanings behind their work.

Chuck Close was born July 5, 1940 in .

He is most known for pointillism, his highly inventive technique used to paint the human