A Biography of Chuck Close Born in Monroe Washington (938 words, 3 pages)
Closes Heritage Born in Monroe, Washington, in 1940, Close studied painting at Yale Universitybefore moving to New York in 1967. Although he greatly admired AbstractExpressionist painters such as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and, especially,Willem de Kooning, he wrote, "They nailed it down so wellthat I couldn't doanything but weak impersonations ...
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