"<a href=""http://www.pacegallery.com/artists/80/chuck-close"" target=""_blank"">Chuck Close</a> is the granddaddy of hyper-realism, starting out creating photo-real images -- like this<a href=""http://www.walkerart.org/collections/artworks/big-self-portrait"" target=""_blank""> famous self portrait from 1967</a> -- in the days when art theorists were claiming that portraiture was dead."
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