Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaudis an American painter widely known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings. Thiebaud is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his early works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth15 November 1920
CityMesa, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
Wayne Thiebaud quotes about
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.
We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism...
The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.
Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.
The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.