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Takeaway: Respect Vermeer above all. And do whatever they are saying can’t be done anymore. From Chuck Close profile today in the Times<\/em> magazine:<\/p>\n Even as you slip forward a few years and he begins adding color in the early 1970s, you\u2019ll find no painterly style on the canvas, no distinctive brushwork \u2014 namely because he had given up brushes to work with a paint sprayer, which he considered a homage to Vermeer. \u201cI can figure out how any painting in the history of art got made, with the exception of Vermeer\u2019s,\u201d he told me. \u201cIt\u2019s like a divine wind blew the pigment on.\u201d<\/p>\n Remember that Close was making these portraits at a time of spectacular upheaval in American art, when many of his contemporaries were preoccupied with wild, experimental work \u2014 with artists like Walter de Maria, Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson moving into the desert, where they would trap lightning, build a mile-long city of black stone and extend a huge spiral walkway into the Great Salt Lake. Just a few years earlier, the prominent critic Clement Greenberg effectively banished the kind of work that Close was doing from the ranks of modern art. \u201cWith an advanced artist,\u201d Greenberg wrote, \u201cit\u2019s now not possible to make a portrait.\u201d So in the world that Close inhabited, his work presented a strange duality. In one sense, the decision to paint photographic portraiture was almost laughably conventional. In another, it was among the most defiant things a downtown artist could do . . .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Takeaway: Respect Vermeer above all. And do whatever they are saying can’t be done anymore. From Chuck Close profile today in the Times magazine: Even as you slip forward a few years and he begins adding color in the early 1970s, you\u2019ll find no painterly style on the canvas, no distinctive brushwork \u2014 namely because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n