Wayne thiebaud education

Best known for his paintings of cakes, pies, pastries, and toys, Wayne Thiebaud hadn't planned on becoming a visual artist. He apprenticed as a cartoonist at Walt Disney studios and intended to work as a commercial illustrator, but his friend Robert Mallary turned him towards a career in fine art. Thiebaud was friendly with Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, but avoided their Abstract Expressionism in favor of a figural style. Though Thiebaud is most often grouped with the Pop art movement for his subject matter, the artist considers himself "just an old fashioned painter," and "not a card carrying Pop artist." He remains best known for his still lifes of confections—sometimes painted from his own memories—which he considers interpretations of "Americanness." In his works, objects and their shadows are characteristically outlined in multiple colors, creating a visual effect Thiebaud calls akin to vibration.

Summary of Wayne Thiebaud

While rooted in the everyday, West Coast artist Wayne Thiebaud's compositions spring from his imagination and have a poetic, sometimes melancholic, quality about them. Thiebaud bucked artistic trends to create his own vision of American culture. Trained as a commercial artist and uninterested in the histrionics surrounding Abstract Expressionism, Thiebaud concentrated his attention on ordinary objects, thus garnering comparisons to Pop Art of the 1960s, yet Thiebaud brushed away such comparisons, saying he was "just an old-fashioned painter."

A popular teacher, Thiebaud was a generous mentor, and artists such as Mel Ramos, Fritz Scholder, and Faith Bromberg have spoken his praises. Further, Thiebaud's embrace of Americana - as seen through his bakery cases and landscapes - has endeared him to a wider audience that see something of themselves in his paintings.

Accomplishments

• Thiebaud began his artistic path studying commercial art and illustration before turning to fine arts study, and this early training continues to inform his work. The linear,
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  Wayne Thiebaud

  American painter (1920–2021)

  Wayne Thiebaud
  Born	Morton Wayne Thiebaud[1] (1920-11-15)November 15, 1920 Mesa, Arizona, U.S.
  Died	December 25, 2021(2021-12-25) (aged 101) Sacramento, California, U.S.
  Education	Sacramento State College San Jose State College Sacramento State
  Known for	Painting, printmaking
  Movement	Pop Art, New Realism, Bay Area Figurative Movement
  Children
  Awards	National Medal of Arts (1994)

  Wayne Thiebaud (TEE-boh; born Morton Wayne Thiebaud; November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021) was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, cakes, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings.^[3][4] Thiebaud is regarded as one of the United States' most beloved and recognizable artists.^[5] 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 sixtie