Title of Artwork: “Big Nude”

Artwork by Chuck Close

Year Created 1967

All About Big Nude by Chuck Close

First of Chuck Close’s grid-based paintings, “Big Nude” has a large scale and self-aware title that indicate its lofty goals. Despite the fact that the transferred image “reads” as a flat reproduction of light and dark typical of a photograph, the varied brushstrokes in Big Nude suggest it is more of a prototype for future development than a fully resolved picture. What does “Big Nude” question about the future of representational painting in an age where the genre appears to have exhausted its usefulness in the art world? In spite of its stark whiteness, the canvas reveals an innovative, meticulous rethinking of the human form that may perfectly combine an uncompromising snapshot of a person with months of in-depth analysis by the artist.

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