Word: microform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Close, 36, a tall figure with a patriarchal beard, works very slowly, his air brush patiently rendering each microform of flesh and hair like a polyp secreting coral. Each painting takes months to finish, and since 1970 Close has finished only 18 of them. Thus any show by him is an event of interest, and his current one at New York's Pace Gallery is no disappointment. It consists of three large heads - one of Close himself, two of his friends in the art world - and a group of studies and drawings for them. Self-portrait and Klaus...