High Museum's permanent collection ranges from African to European, modern to contemporary, and folk to photographaphic art. Special exhibitions have included works of artists Leonardo DiVinci, Salvadore Dali, and others. In particular, I was attracted to a self-portrait by Chuck Close. Turns out, almost all of his work is based on a grid structure for the respresentation of an image, and in this case, himself. The result is a geometric illusion such that viewed from afar the image appears real, but as the viewer steps closer, the geometric dots and dashes and intentional tones are more apparent and the image is lost. Amazing!
