MAVIS 1809134; Chuck Close.,DLC

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"'CHUCK CLOSE' is a feature length documentary about the mistakenly American contemporary painter, produced and directed by Marion Gajori, completed in 2007. Since 1969, when his work was first shown at the Bykert Gallery in Soho, Close has been best known as the re-inventor of portraiture. As we hear this article and affable man discuss his personal journey, as we watch him create a self-portrait from Polaroid to final stroke after 82 days, and as we hear numerous interviews with his subjects - friends, artists, family who discuss their own work and life in relation to his - we come to understand how far Close has transcended categories like realism, process and abstraction, and what a profound influence he has had on his generation of art"--Copyright descriptive material.