Richard Diebenkorn. Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin. Willem de Kooning. Franz Kline. Robert Mallary. Abstract Expressionism. Commercial art. Fred Dalkey. Fritz Scholder. Faith Bromberg. Garry Hutton. Mel Ramos. Sharon Core. Pop Art.
The books and articles below constitute a bibliography of the sources used in the writing of this page. These also suggest some accessible resources for further research, especially ones that can be found and purchased via the internet. Wayne Thiebaud Our Pick. Wayne Thiebaud Lectures on Art and Drawing. Academy of Achievement - Wayne Thiebaud. Wayne Thiebaud: to ; Milton Avery review - Americana with a cherry on top. Studio visit: Wayne Thiebaud Our Pick.
Wayne Thiebaud on "the painted world". Overview and Artworks Biography. Claes Oldenburg. Jim Dine. Summary Concepts Artworks. Bay Area Figurative Movement.
Cite article. Correct article. The same meringue pies. So it began to make a lot of sense to paint them — and it was very intriguing.
I was very fortunate to become known for that, but I had no real interest in it. Those cookies, ice creams, and slices of pie, for example, grew out of exercises in three-dimensional geometry. He began to paint them in the mid s after returning from a sojourn in New York.
Before Thiebaud set out he had been an aspiring Abstract Expressionist. I got a better feel for what was going on, which was totally different from what I had thought it was. The last of those made the biggest impression. That is very much the core of the matter. What are your strategies? Two Paint Cans , Wayne Thiebaud. It was from de Kooning that Thiebaud got a wise piece of advice.
He told me exactly what he meant: imitating the signature style, copying the brush marks, the labels. There is evidently a lot of geometry in Thiebaud. Smoking Cigar for example, is an off-white square, with a thick line along the bottom, parallel to the bottom edge, and a thin one on the right, parallel to the side. So far, so Mondrian-like. While the thin line, wavering and delicate, is a light plume of rising smoke.
The formula for a Thiebaud, partly at least, is geometric structure plus a wizardry worked with the brush — the latter being the contribution of Kline and de Kooning to his artistic heredity. Wayne Thiebaud was born in Mesa, Arizona in The following year he and his family — who were Mormons one of his great-grandmothers walked westward across the Great Plains with Brigham Young — moved to Los Angeles.
As a teenager he made posters for the theatre, then spent a brief time as an apprentice at Disney Studios. Alongside this apprenticeship, Thiebaud worked in theater, creating posters for plays and setting up lighting and sets.
At 18, he tried his hand at being a cartoonist and a designer. The economic rock bottom of the Great Depression was the main reason why Thiebaud decided not to pursue a career in fine arts. Instead, he studied commercial art and illustration because he reasoned he would earn more in those career paths. His art skills saved him from combat during World War II, where he served as an artist and a cartoonist in the Special Services Department.
After the war, nearing 30 years of age, Wayne Thiebaud returned to commercial art. From the s on, he would paint and teach art courses and slowly transition away from his commercial career. His most famous artworks feature different types of food as the main subject, balanced and harmonious in heavy pigments such as Cakes and Bakery counter Among the different dishes, he favors diner pies, ice cream cones, hot dogs, and popsicles.
Thiebaud used thick brushstrokes, dramatic shadows, and outlines — halos — of complementary colors to make the object stand out for the viewer. He utilized what he learned from cartoons, ads, and design and applied it to his paintings, merging the two seemingly disparate art worlds in his eye-catching artworks. Despite being recognized for his work and included in exhibitions in New York and San Francisco, among others, Wayne Thiebaud never considered himself an artist.
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