The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever…

Chuck Close
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The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real. ✨ Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch. Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.
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The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real. ✨ Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch. Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

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