my guess is richard serra could have done other things besides being a sculptor. he, in fact, was a very good painter for a while and he worked in this field when he was young and began to work with other materials that finally made these wonderful gigantic sculptures. chuck close took a very different approach. he is dyslexic, as you indicated. and he felt that there are many things he couldn't do. the one thing he could do very well is to draw. and he particularly became interested in drawing and painting faces. now, this is extremely interesting because she face-blind. he is probably the only artist in the history of western art who paints portraits without being able to recognize individual faces. and how does he do it? he takes a picture, flattens it out which is easier to deal with and oliver sacks will explain that to us. and then he pixelates it. heuts a grade over it, makes small squares out of it because he can deal with small forms much more easily than large forms. and he then puts all this together. so they take two very different approaches to the ar