<p>"Perhaps, but wouldn’t excluding Chuck Close mean that the are no strictly representational painters on that list?
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Actually I’m not even sure I consider Chuck Close a strictly representational painter. If you’ve ever seen his true paintings and not just book plates or slides, up close, describing them as representational isn’t quite accurate. They are representational but beyond that. Go to a gallery, stand back so you see the whole image and then very very slowly walk towards the painting until you are inches from it, or as close as the museum/gallery will allow.</p>