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Title: Portrait Made Of Thousands Of Fingerprints Post by: Pete Richards on August 31, 2012, 11:36:53 PM (http://800017.xyz/files/funzug/imgs/paintings/thousands_fingerprints_portrait_01.jpg)
“Fanny/Fingerpainting” represents one of the largest and most masterly executions of a technique Chuck Close developed in the mid-l980s. That technique involved the direct application of pigment to a surface with the artist’s fingertips. By adjusting the amount of pigment and the pressure of his finger on the canvas, Close could achieve a wide range of tonal effects. Typically, he worked from a black and white photograph which he would divide into many smaller units by means of a grid. He then transposed the grid onto a much larger canvas and meticulously reproduced each section of it. The result is a monumental, close-up view that forces an uncomfortable intimacy upon the viewer Title: Re: Portrait Made Of Thousands Of Fingerprints Post by: Pete Richards on August 31, 2012, 11:37:04 PM (http://800017.xyz/files/funzug/imgs/paintings/thousands_fingerprints_portrait_02.jpg)
Title: Re: Portrait Made Of Thousands Of Fingerprints Post by: Pete Richards on August 31, 2012, 11:37:13 PM (http://800017.xyz/files/funzug/imgs/paintings/thousands_fingerprints_portrait_03.jpg)
Title: Re: Portrait Made Of Thousands Of Fingerprints Post by: Pete Richards on August 31, 2012, 11:37:21 PM (http://800017.xyz/files/funzug/imgs/paintings/thousands_fingerprints_portrait_04.jpg)
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