Wayne+Thiebaud


 * ==Wayne Thiebaud == ||
 * 1920 - ) is an American painter whose most famous work includes his renowned still-lifes, poise portraiture, and dramatic, formalized views of landscapes. Thiebaud has painted diligently in these three genres for over 70 years and is still painting today. He is often described as "unclassified" painter, never quite fitting into any particular group or style. ||
 * ====//﻿Early Years and Education// ==== ||
 * Thiebaud was born in Mesa, Arizona. His family moved to California when he was young. He started his Artistic career early in life, including a summer at Walt Disney Studios. He worked as a cartoonist and designer in California and New York. Then he served as an artist in the United States Air Force in 1942.

In 1949, he attended San Jose State University, then transferring to Sacramento State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1951 and master's degree in 1952. He subsequently began teaching at college. In 1960, he became assistant professor at the University of California, Davis. Where he work for many years till he retired. That same year he had his first one-man show in San Francisco in the Museum of Modern Art as well as shows in New York City at the Staempfli and Tanager galleries. Thiebaud divided his time teaching and traveling. He spent some time in New York, where he began to focus on the imagery of food displays in windows in the big apple. Thiebaud's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and many others. ||=  aaa.si.edu ||
 * ====//﻿Finding a Career// ==== ||
 * Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements. However, Thiebaud followed basic traditional disciplines and put emphasis on hard work as a supplement for creativity, and used his love of realism for his many works in the following decade.

In 1965, Thiebaud started work from life. One of the people for //Two seated figures//, form that era, happen to be his wife, now of 51 years, a favorite subject of his, in a short skirt. Other pictures reflect Thiebaud and his family life together; scenes from Laguna Beach, where they have a home; the streetscapes of San Francisco, where he had a studio in the 70s: drawings of people he knows, reflects the connection that he not only had with people, but places and things. ||=  smithsonianmag.com ||
 * ====//Accomplishments and Recent Works// ==== ||
 * In the 1990s and 2000s, he turned to more landscape, like that of the delta, than to the well-known still-lifes. With wildly shifting perspectives and geometric patterns created by sharp curves and hard edges, the delta paintings recall his landscapes of the past, like his vertiginous San Francisco cityscapes. //Tin Brown River// of 2002 was painted in traditional perspective while other tilt up and about the canvas. In 1994, he was presented with the National Medal of arts by President Clinton.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A recent exhibit held in 2010 in Sacramento, where the artist resides was an exhibition of celebrated works from his entire career including iconic edibles alongside bizarre landscapes. One of things the show demonstrates is the way in while Thiebaud works back and forth through time, picking up themes form the past and hammering at them until they become iconic images that no one could mistake for anything but a Thiebuad. Reasoning why he uses the same motifs or object he stated that, "My pleasure in painting these is to be at as many different levels as seem to make sense to the pattern," he continued, " What's intriguing about a series like this is to see how many different seasons you can use, how many different times of day, how many different sources of light." ||= <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">http://2.bp.blogspot.com || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">//Five Rows of Sunglasses, 2000// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">//ARTstor.org// ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Issues on Classification// ==== ||
 * Thiebaud was born of one genre, but is following another in his long life. Thiebaud’s technique is very much about the paint, often comparing his work to Flemish Baroque Painter Peter Paul Rubens and 18th century French painter Cardin, while some subjects that seem like that of Pop Art come secondary. It has always depended on overtly expressive, painterly, traditional means. He often has refereed to other artist like Bonnard and Matisse, as well as Josef Albers’ color theory, so that the perception of color is altered by the colors around it. Often he surrounds form with multiple colors to create a halo effect. Now that Thiebaud has outlived many of the painters he was once associated with, he has enter several different generation of modern Art, and it is very much a issue for those who wish to sum up his decades of work into a neat paragraph for text. ||= <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">[[image:Five_Rows_of_Sunglasses.jpg]]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Thiebaud unlike most contemporary art is wonderfully ungimmicky. He belongs more to a classical tradition of painttention in the 1960s. It is this technical virtuosity, along with humor and ability that has helped makes Thiebaud a uniquely "unclassified" American painter than to Pop Art revolution, that first propelled him to national attention. ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 80%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Bibliography <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 80%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">Binstock, Jonathan P. "Wayne Thiebaud's Jackpot Machine." //American Art// 10, 2 (1996): 78. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 80%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">Doherty, M. Stephen. "Wayne Thiebaud selects." //American Artist// 58, 627 (1994): 64-70. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 80%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">McGuigan, Cathleen. "Wayne Thiebaud is Not a Pop Artist." //Smithsonian// 41, 10 (2011): 66-72. ||
 * = [[image:Cakes.jpg width="331" height="272"]] ||= [[image:Thiebaud_Homecoming.jpg width="316" height="306"]] ||= [[image:beach_boys.jpg]] ||
 * = //Cakes, 1963// ||= Wayne Thiebaud at //Homecoming// exibit ||= //Beach Boys, 1959// ||
 * = ARTstor.org ||= sacramento365.com ||= ARTstor.org ||
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