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US artist Chuck Close on learning to paint again
The American artist Chuck Close has produced some of the most instantly recognisable work in contemporary art. His meticulously detailed giant portraits are often three meters high. In 1988, Chuck had a seizure which left him paralysed from the neck down, and he had to learn how to paint again in a very different way. He told Andrew Purcell how seeing an abstract painting by Jackson Pollock in the 1950's informed his art. (Pic: self-portrait, Pace Gallery)
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