Wayne thiebaud

One of Wayne Thiebaud's amazing cake paintings. Wonderful use of color & texture, those slices are calling my name...

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One of my favourite contemporary painters is the Californian artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920). He came to prominence in the 1960’s on the back of the of the Pop Art movement, though he himself does not consider himself a Pop Artist. His painting does not critique American culture so much as celebrate it, and his brushwork is more individual and expressive than the flat, mechanized style favored by Pop artists such as Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist. Thiebaud is best known for his iconic…

While most people half his age are searching for their car keys, Wayne Thiebaud, now 93, peppers conversations with literary references and recalls in

Wayne Thiebaud - Cakes, 1963 (Oil on Canvas)

I quite enjoyed the Wayne Thiebaud: Paintings and Drawings show which I went to go see at SFMOMA the other day with a group of my coworker pals. Here are a few of the things I liked best. Another Friday I'll tell you about his other adjacent Artist's Choice show.

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Over the course of a frustrating afternoon in 1961, Wayne Thiebaud visited every single gallery on Madison Avenue, New York, to try to sell his paintings.

Gumball machine by Wayne Thiebaud, 1963

Cartoonist and former animator at Disney Inspired by Abstract Expressionist especially Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline Became a pop arts depicting everyday items in American life—sandwiches,...