How has he made these still life paintings very recognizable as his own? What kind of choices is he making? Do you see how he is breaking down form, could you describe it?
9.21.2009
Reference on Wayne Thiebaud
I mentioned that Thiebaud's prints are at the Norton Simon but for the record he is well known for his paintings of cakes and mass produced food items. Here are a couple of paintings and the wiki link if you want to find out more about him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Thiebaud
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Thiebaud's inspiration for painting pastries could have originated from the fact that as a young boy he used to work at a café in Long Beach. In his paintings he has used different basic shapes, warm, and cool colors to show these appealing pastries. His paintings also give you the sense of space and by looking at his paintings your eyes start from the very first row of pastries and they travel towards the back. He has used perspective, warm and cool colors to give us the illusion of objects receding in the back…
ReplyDeleteThiebaud's painting have an almost vintage feel to them. These posted of the cakes are just two that seem to give the items painted, a 50's quality to them. His other painting of "Ice Cream, Lollipop, and Gum Ball Machines" all seem to coincide with these pastry paintings. Thiebaud definitely gives a huge sense of space and relation to each object depicted.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that he decided to paint in cool and warm soft colors, rather than in deep vibrant ones, gives the paintings an overall happy approach.
His paintings remind me of earlier work by Will Cotton. Apparently Cotton would set up these elaborate still life/landscape scenes using all kinds of desserts and candies, and then lets them deteriorate, his studio was said to smell like sugar, like an ice cream parlor. He paints his desserts in a similar way to Thiebaud, using a palette that is rich with bright plastic-like colors paired with de-saturated pastels. He seems like he's also making a comment about excess, over-consumption, in the same way that Thiebaud is talking about mass-production.
ReplyDeleteHere's a links to a few images of his work:
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/rossi/Images/rossi11-28-1.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ORgy5r0ZcSU/Sex61AJuc4I/AAAAAAAADN0/ZBTFU3AGoRs/s800/will+cotton+002.jpeg