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He's best known for his bright paintings of pastries and cakes, but they represent only a slice of the American master's work
In the last of three postings on the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud (cakes, landscapes, and cityscapes) I'm taking a look at some of his cityscapes. Based on San Francisco with its dramatic hills where the roads rise and fall quite precipitously in places, they're a fanciful and exaggerated version of the reality. For biographical information on Thiebaud see my two previous posts.
The Crocker Art Museum welcomes back visitors with a new retrospective celebrating Wayne Thiebaud's 100th birthday. We caught up with the renowned Sacramento painter about life, art and yes, even his favorite kind of pie.
He's best known for his bright paintings of pastries and cakes, but they represent only a slice of the American master's work
The successful clown is the hysterical clown, which is to say he is a figure shocking in his knowledge of our silliest, most intimate selves. Thiebaud shows this in his art.
Welcome to week one of our 12-week free art lessons for kids course here at A Magical Homeschool! This week the kids will be learning about the art of Wayne Thiebaud (pronounced TEE-bo) and following along with five days of fun and easy art projects using a variety of media. Who was Wayne Thiebaud? Wikipedia …
Wayne Thiebaud is an American artist who worked in the ’60s. He is often associated with the Pop Art because of his choice of subjects (objects symbol of consumerism such as cakes, candies,…
Thiebaud, who spent most of his life in California, was one of the country's most beloved and recognizable painters.
In the 1950s Thiebaud showed his early paintings at a drive-in theater in Sacramento, but he aimed for New York and, after a while, made it there. This painting (above) titled "Ripley Street Bridge" sold for over one million dollars during Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art auction in New York on May 14, 2011 His mother, Alice, was a wonderful cook and baker.” His Uncle Jess was a cartoonist. When he was a kid, he wanted to be a cartoonist too, and he did become one for a while. “Cakes, they are glorious, they are like toys.” Thiebaud One of his designs blanket our California highways "If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it." Wayne Thiebaud age 91 still paints every day.
Wayne Thiebaud died last week, age 101. Known for his paintings of cakes and ice cream, his work transcended the simplicity of his subjects.
Wayne Thiebaud never went to art school. He got the art education that would serve him best by busing tables and washing dishes, molding burgers and building ice cream cones in a restaurant in Long Beach, where he grew up, the son of a Model T mechanic. Years later, when his hero Willem de Kooning advised him to stop copying...
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Thiebaud, just a few months shy of his 98th birthday, offers a glimpse into the thinking behind his five decades of work.
I'm so inspired by Wayne Thiebaud!!! I usually see people using his early work. It is lovely & so accessible for young artists as inspiration. However, that is not the work to which I'm referring. I love his landscapes. They have such amazing color and atmospheric perspective. I feel like I'm flying over his world as I view the paintings. If you are not familiar with the "newer" work of Thiebaud...hop on-line and do a search! You will have a "new/old" artist to add to your landscape units! Did you know I interviewed Wayne Thiebaud? YEP YEP!! Here is the link to that post from 2014. https://www.artwithmre.com/2014/05/mr-e-asks-3-wayne-thiebaud.html
A show at Acquavella Galleries in New York brings together paintings by the two fast friends
In a time when the arts and humanities are less and less respected, because those essential fields are so little understood, “Wayne Thiebaud: Artist’s Choice” is the kind of exhibition we need more of. It's on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through March 10. Take a brilliant artist who is also wildly popular, and ask him to...
In the last of three postings on the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud (cakes, landscapes, and cityscapes) I'm taking a look at some of his cityscapes. Based on San Francisco with its dramatic hills where the roads rise and fall quite precipitously in places, they're a fanciful and exaggerated version of the reality. For biographical information on Thiebaud see my two previous posts.
In 1960, painter Wayne Thiebaud's brilliantly colored images of pies, candy and hot dogs seemed worlds apart from the severe abstractions then fashionable in the serious art world. But when a New York gallerist took a chance on the struggling Californian, his paintings sold like proverbial hot cakes. Today, his canvases hang in the world's great museums, and routinely fetch millions of dollars at auction. For half a century since, Thiebaud has continued to paint, print and draw, finding an otherworldly beauty in the everyday objects of this world: food, clothing, shoes, tools, city streets. The representational skills he learned as an illustrator and cartoonist in the 1930s and '40s, combined with a keen critical sense and a thorough command of the history and traditions of painting, have given his work solidity and staying power that transcend the changing tastes of the times. Wayne Thiebaud has shared his gifts with the world, not only as a working artist, but over a lifetime of teaching, developing the skills and critical faculties of succeeding generations of artists. His paintings, seen firsthand, convey a visceral delight to the beholder, while his works in reproduction have indelibly colored our view of the American landscape.
The successful clown is the hysterical clown, which is to say he is a figure shocking in his knowledge of our silliest, most intimate selves. Thiebaud shows this in his art.
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The 97-year-old American artist discusses the enduring appeal of California’s natural scenery and ends on a sweet note, sharing the recipe to his heart.
The volume surveys his extensive career, from his famous cake paintings to his vibrant landscapes
In a time when the arts and humanities are less and less respected, because those essential fields are so little understood, “Wayne Thiebaud: Artist’s Choice” is the kind of exhibition we need more of. It's on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through March 10. Take a brilliant artist who is also wildly popular, and ask him to...
In the last of three postings on the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud (cakes, landscapes, and cityscapes) I'm taking a look at some of his cityscapes. Based on San Francisco with its dramatic hills where the roads rise and fall quite precipitously in places, they're a fanciful and exaggerated version of the reality. For biographical information on Thiebaud see my two previous posts.
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Welcome to week one of our 12-week free art lessons for kids course here at A Magical Homeschool! This week the kids will be learning about the art of Wayne Thiebaud (pronounced TEE-bo) and following along with five days of fun and easy art projects using a variety of media. Who was Wayne Thiebaud? Wikipedia …
The successful clown is the hysterical clown, which is to say he is a figure shocking in his knowledge of our silliest, most intimate selves. Thiebaud shows this in his art.
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