Close up 10/27/2009
This website features a detail of a Chuck Close portrait. You may not have noticed at first sight that the banner is part of a face. In this kind of woodcut portraits you only see the three-dimensional shape that is represented at some distance. From too close (no play of words there) the details become inconsistent with the assumptions that the visual system makes about what should be a shadow, according to the interpretation given by Patrick Cavanagh and John M. Kennedy in Science.  Emma - Chuck Close CommentsLeave a Reply | AboutCabinet of curiosities were the ancestors of the museum, as places where the idle rich exhibited objects they deemed interesting, sometimes without any systematic order. Although I could call this a "blog", "cabinet of curiosities" sounds much more respectable. ArchivesJuillet 2011 CategoriesAll Translation
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