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Chuck Close

1940 - 2021

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Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very large format camera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chuck Close has received more than 1,625,563 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Chuck Close is the 867th most popular painter (up from 1,131st in 2019), the 3,006th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,278th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Painter.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Chuck Close ranks 867 out of 1,421. Before him are Aert van der Neer, Hans Thoma, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Li Cheng, André Beauneveu, and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin. After him are Jan Porcellis, Tarsila do Amaral, Naji al-Ali, Gustave Le Gray, Frans Hogenberg, and Giovanni Giacometti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Chuck Close ranks 166. Before him are Haing S. Ngor, John Havlicek, Jan Stráský, Abbas El Fassi, Víctor Erice, and José van Dam. After him are Nicola Di Bari, Diane, Duchess of Württemberg, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Tony Sheridan, Helmut Jahn, and Gigi Proietti. Among people deceased in 2021, Chuck Close ranks 222. Before him are Andrey Myagkov, Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, Lou Ottens, Danilo Popivoda, Tarcísio Meira, and Carlos do Carmo. After him are Susana Higuchi, Carlos Marín, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Alfonso Sastre, Anerood Jugnauth, and Teresa Żylis-Gara.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chuck Close ranks 3,006 out of 18,182. Before him are Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977), Eddie Vedder (1964), Robert Davi (1953), Nancy Allen (1950), Peter MacNicol (1954), and John Wesley Hyatt (1837). After him are Eric Stoltz (1961), Candy Darling (1944), P. J. Kennedy (1858), Edith Roosevelt (1861), Yvette Mimieux (1942), and James F. Byrnes (1882).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Chuck Close ranks 35. Before him are Thomas Eakins (1844), Winslow Homer (1836), Cindy Sherman (1954), Lee Krasner (1908), Carl Andre (1935), and Gutzon Borglum (1867). After him are Henry Hill (1943), Barbara Kruger (1945), Lawrence Weiner (1942), Evel Knievel (1938), John Frederick Kensett (1816), and Sam Francis (1923).

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