No computer art here, this guy is old-school all the way. To my mind Chuck Close is the greatest living portrait painter,...and he is face-blind. He has prosopagnosia, and literally can not recognize the 3d faces of people he knows well. He uses this to his advantage by systematically breaking down the details that make up the whole of each face. His style has ranged from hyper-photorealism, earlier in his career, to one where the close-up details are tiny, loose abstractions, but the whole looks very recognizable. To call his later work impressionistic would be an over simplification. A big motivation to adopt this later style was the "event", (a seizure) which left him mostly paralyzed from the neck down. He now uses a variety of contraptions, including a modified forklift to allow him to complete his huge canvases. If you get a chance to see his work in person, do.
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