{"id":2942,"date":"2012-03-05T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papekphotography.com\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2012-03-05T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:00:01","slug":"chuck-closes-brain-influences-his-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/chuck-closes-brain-influences-his-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Close&#8217;s Brain Influences His Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Charlie Rose Brain Series 2: \" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlierose.com\/view\/interview\/12099?sponsor_id=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2943\" title=\"Chuck Close\" src=\"http:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Untitled-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Untitled-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chuck Close is a brilliant artist who also suffers from a condition called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prosopagnosia\">prosopagnosia<\/a> or face blindness. It\u2019s inspiring and a great story.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Close was a guest on Charlie Rose\u2019s panel for the PBS host\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlierose.com\/view\/interview\/12099?sponsor_id=1\">Brain Series<\/a>. Beginning about 35 minutes into the video (though you\u2019ll want to watch the whole thing) Close explains how his inability to recognize faces led to his art where he focuses on the artificiality of assembling an image by incremental units rather than the \u201crealism\u201d of a person\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Close is a brilliant artist who also suffers from a condition called prosopagnosia or face blindness. It\u2019s inspiring and a great story. Chuck Close was a guest on Charlie Rose\u2019s panel for the PBS host\u2019s Brain Series. Beginning about 35 minutes into the video (though you\u2019ll want to watch the whole thing) Close explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[213,298,294,296,295,297,299],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape","tag-artist","tag-blindness","tag-chuck","tag-chuck-close","tag-close","tag-face","tag-face-blindness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.papekphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}