Editing Chuck Close (section)

==Early life and education==
Chuck Close was born in [[Monroe, Washington]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Chuck Close profile|publisher=Art in the Allen Center|url=http://www.cs.washington.edu/building/art/ChuckClose|access-date=August 15, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070907154813/http://www.cs.washington.edu/building/art/ChuckClose/|archive-date=September 7, 2007}}</ref> His father, Leslie Durward Close, died when Chuck was 11 years old. His mother's name was Mildred Wagner Close.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-chuck-close-13141|title=Oral history interview with Chuck Close|access-date=December 9, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114113706/http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-chuck-close-13141|archive-date=January 14, 2015}}</ref> As a child, Close had a [[neuromuscular]] condition that made it difficult to lift his feet and a bout with [[nephritis]] that kept him out of school for most of sixth grade. Even when in school, he did poorly due to his [[dyslexia]], which was not diagnosed at the time.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hylton|first1=Wil S.|author-link=Wil S. Hylton|title=The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/magazine/the-mysterious-metamorphosis-of-chuck-close.html|access-date=July 14, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=July 13, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713212317/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/magazine/the-mysterious-metamorphosis-of-chuck-close.html|archive-date=July 13, 2016}}</ref>

Most of his early works were very large portraits based on photographs, using [[photorealism]] or [[hyperrealism (painting)|hyperrealism]], of family and friends, often other artists. Close said he had [[prosopagnosia]] (face blindness), and suggested that this condition is what first inspired him to do portraits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mosaicartnow.com/2010/07/prosopagnosia-portraitist-chuck-close|title=Mosaic Art NOW: Prosopagnosia: Portraitist Chuck Close|publisher=mosaicartnow.com|access-date=August 20, 2017|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821091200/http://www.mosaicartnow.com/2010/07/prosopagnosia-portraitist-chuck-close/|archive-date=August 21, 2017}}</ref>
Author Graham Thompson writes "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  It is also called super-realism or [[Hyperrealism (painting)|hyper-realism]] and painters like [[Richard Estes]], [[Denis Peterson]], [[Audrey Flack]], and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs."<ref>Thompson, Graham: American Culture in the 1980s (Twentieth Century American Culture) Edinburgh University Press, 2007</ref>

In an interview with [[Phong Bui]] in ''[[The Brooklyn Rail]]'', Close described an early encounter with a [[Jackson Pollock]] painting at the [[Seattle Art Museum]]: "I went to the Seattle Art Museum with my mother for the first time when I was 14.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/chuck-close-9251491#early-life|title=Chuck Close|website=Biography|access-date=1 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323000921/https://www.biography.com/people/chuck-close-9251491#early-life|archive-date=23 March 2018}}</ref> I saw this Jackson Pollock [[drip painting]] with aluminum paint, [[tar]], [[gravel]] and all that stuff. I was absolutely outraged, disturbed. It was so far removed from what I thought art was. However, within 2 or 3 days, I was dripping paint all over my old paintings. In a way I've been chasing that experience ever since."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bui|first=Phong|title=In Conversation: Chuck Close with Phong Bui|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=June 2008|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2008/06/art/chuck-close-with-phong-bui|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120406132818/http://brooklynrail.org/2008/06/art/chuck-close-with-phong-bui|archive-date=April 6, 2012}}</ref>

Close attended [[Everett Community College]] in 1958–1960.<ref name="Chuck Close">[http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/100/biographical-summary Chuck Close] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023003134/http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/100/biographical-summary |date=October 23, 2012 }} Crown Point Press, San Francisco.</ref> Local writer [[John Patric]] was an early anti-establishment intellectual influence on him, and a role model for the iconoclastic and theatric artist's persona Close learned to project in subsequent years.<ref name=close>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_98hkDCFoJ4C&q=%22John+Patric%22&pg=PT38|title=Chuck Close: Life|isbn=9783641083410|last1=Finch|first1=Christopher|date=June 27, 2012|publisher=Prestel Verlag }}</ref>

In 1962, Close received his B.A. from the [[University of Washington]] in [[Seattle]]. In 1961, he won a coveted scholarship to the Yale Summer School of Music and Art,<ref name="Chuck Close"/> and the following year entered the graduate degree program at [[Yale University]], where he received his [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] in 1964. Among Close's classmates at Yale were [[Brice Marden]], [[Vija Celmins]], [[Janet Fish]], [[Richard Serra]], [[Nancy Graves]], [[Jennifer Bartlett]], [[Robert Mangold]], and [[Sylvia Plimack Mangold]].<ref name="nytimes.com"/>

After Yale, he studied at the [[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna]] on a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright]] grant.<ref name="guggenheim.org">[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/bio/?artist_name=Chuck%20Close&page=1&f=Name&cr=1 Chuck Close] [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York.</ref> When he returned to the United States, he worked as an art teacher at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst|University of Massachusetts]]. Close moved to New York City in 1967 and established himself in [[SoHo]].<ref name="nytimes.com"/>