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Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very large format camera. He adapted his painting style and working methods in 1988, after being paralyzed by an…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Chuck Close | Born | Charles Thomas Close (1940-07-05)July 5, 1940 Monroe, Washington, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Chuck Close | Died | August 19, 2021(2021-08-19) (aged 81) Oceanside, New York, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Chuck Close | Education | University of Washington (BA, 1962) Yale University (MFA) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Chuck Close | Known for | Photorealistic painter, photographer | 1.00 | infobox |
| tapestry | instance of | Close also continued to explore difficult photographic processes such as daguerreotype in collaboration with Jerry Spagnoli and sophisticated modular/cell-based forms | 0.80 | text |
| Chuck Close | related to Early life and education | Monroe | 0.60 | section |
| Chuck Close | related to Early life and education | Washington | 0.60 | section |
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| Chuck Close | related to Early life and education | Leslie Durward Close | 0.60 | section |
| Chuck Close | related to Early life and education | Chuck | 0.60 | section |
| Chuck Close | related to Early life and education | Mildred Wagner Close | 0.60 | section |
| Chuck Close | related to Early life and education | As | 0.60 | section |
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