{"id":716,"date":"2010-07-19T21:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2010-07-19T22:19:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T02:19:26","slug":"chuck-close-and-aol-celebrate-new-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Close and AOL Celebrate New Partnership with 20&#215;24 Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_717\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-717\" style=\"width: 613px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-717\" title=\"top.image001\" src=\"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/top.image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Close in the 20x24 Studio, New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-719\" style=\"width: 553px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-719\" title=\"NY-AF992_AOL_G_20100524195524\" src=\"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NY-AF992_AOL_G_20100524195524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"369\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Close and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong at 20x24 Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>In nearly 40 years of creating large-scale iconic images, American artist Chuck Close had never taken a commission, or allowed his work to be used commercially. That will change this year when Mr. Close starts shooting an ad campaign for AOL. \u00a0It&#8217;s not strictly an ad campaign, but more a showcase of American artists, designers and inventors, part of a year-long &#8220;<a title=\"AOL Project on Creativity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aolartists.com\/projects\/\">Project on Creativity<\/a>,&#8221; which includes Mr. Close making images of AOL users that have made a difference, like inventor Dean Kamen, who designed the wheelchair he uses to get around, filmmaker Gus Van Sant, also an AOL user (who knew?), and actress Claire Danes. \u00a0&#8220;I really wanted to get involved because of their commitment to creativity on all fronts,&#8221; Mr. Close said at the unveiling of the project at AOL&#8217;s 25th anniversary party at the New Museum in New York City. \u00a0Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/aol-gets-legendary-artist-chuck-close-for-new-ad-campaign-2010-5#ixzz0uBQ7A2RK\">here.<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-729\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-729\" title=\"chuck-close2\" src=\"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chuck-close2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Close 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Go behind the scenes at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolartists.com\/aol-originals\/\">20&#215;24 Studio.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In nearly 40 years of creating large-scale iconic images, American artist Chuck Close had never taken a commission, or allowed his work to be used commercially. That will change this year when Mr. Close starts shooting an ad campaign for AOL. \u00a0It&#8217;s not strictly an ad campaign, but more a showcase of American artists, designers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/?p=716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chuck Close and AOL Celebrate New Partnership with 20&#215;24 Images<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20x24-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/20x24studio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}