Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Chuck Close (1940–2021), acclaimed photorealistic painter
legacy.comChuck Close was a celebrated artist known for his large-scale portraits, some of which were composed of many tiny paintings arranged as pixels.Close was among the best-known artists of his era, with a large body of work centered on huge portraits of friends, fellow artists, and celebrities.
Some are all but indistinguishable from photographs. Others are photorealistic from a distance, but upon closer inspection become pixelated into hundreds or thousands of tiny paintings.
Close experimented with his pixilation style, composing one work with fingerprints from an ink pad and another from handmade paper pulp.
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