Chuck Close and Scott Blake

Chuck close was an American artist that revolutionized the way to draw a portrait. Close used a big canvas and made a grid on it, and painted each square individually. Close started painting at a young age and relied on painting to get him through tough times in his life. In 1988 Close became almost fully paralyzed and developed face blindness. This didn't stop him from creating his work. As you can tell, if you look into his paintings before and after his trauma, the paintings become slightly more blurred, which depicts how he changed as a person. I think that this part of him is extremely unique and his perseverance shows. This painting was done after his accident, and we get an insight to what Chuck sees. 

I chose this painting because I was extremely intrigued by the design, when you look at this painting up close you just see a spiral of bar codes, however if you take a step back you can see a face. I think this is absolutely incredible what the artist was able to do with such a normal everyday thing, that we deal with very frequently. Scott Blake wanted to expand his art and created a software that took Close's paintings and put them into a different order, Close was not happy about this yet Scott continuers to make paintings with the software with other square objects.