Chuck Close - Fingerpainting (1985) - oil on canvas
“This giant portrait depicts the artists’s wife’s late grandmother, Fanny, and was executed using a technique developed by Close himself which involves the direct application of pigment to a surface with his fingerprints. By adjusting the amount of pigment used and the pressure applied on the canvas with his fingers, Chuck Close managed to capture every crack and crevice of the subject’s face, just like a high-definition silver-toned photograph.”