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Wayne Thiebaud
Pop Artist
Barbara Armstrong
Final Presentation
ARTS 1301 SAMPLE
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DISCLAIMER SLIDE
• DO NOT use for every PPT.
• DO give a disclaimer if your artist’s artwork includes
challenging images and/or content.
– Should be the 2nd slide and before ANY images at all.
• Use a movie rating system for your disclaimer.
• Example below.
DISCLAIMER
The following artwork rated for:
N – nudity
V – violence
Artist Bio
• American Pop artist
– Born 1920 in Mesa, AZ.
• Lives in Northern California and
is heavily influenced by where
he lives and work.
• Started as a commercial artist in
the late 1930s, primarily as a
cartoonist and designer.
• Became a prominent Pop Art
artist in the 1960s.
• Works mostly in paintings (oils
and acrylics) and prints.
(Sparked in Education: Wayne Thiebaud.)
More Biography
• Worked as a cartoonist, designer and commercial artist
from 1938 – 1949 in both California and New York.
• Masters Degree in Art in 1952.
• Art Professor UC-Davis from 1960-1990. Now professor
emeritus (retired teaching).
• First major art shows 1962 in both California and NYC.
• 2 shows upcoming in 2018:
– Wayne Thiebaud 1958–1968, Jan Shrem and Maria
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California,
Davis, CA
– Wayne Thiebaud Drawings, The Morgan Library &
Museum, New York, NY
PIES, PIES, PIES, oc, 20 x 30
in., 1961
EXAMPLES
OF
ARTWORKS
FIVE ROWS OF
GLASSES, oc,
20”x16”, 2000
HILL STREET, color
woodblock print,
ADDITIONAL SUBJECT MATTER
Figures
Landscapes
Girl with an Ice Cream
Cone, 1962, oil on canvas
Street and Shadow, 1982-83, oil
on canvas
GREEN RIVER DIVIDE, 2002, acrylic on canvas,
60”x72”, Allan Stone Gallery
PIECE FOR ANALYSIS
My INITIAL RESPONSE
• I see a patchwork quilt of
colors and shapes and
textures.
• Wayne Thiebaud’s
landscapes “from a
different point-of-view”
fascinate me.
• I have flown over many
states. I find that most
look similar, though not
the same.
• To me, he depicts the
American rural landscape
in this picture – it could be
any state and any time.
Formal Analysis 1 & 2: GREEN RIVER DIVIDE
• Art Form – Painting
• Style – Abstract
• Subject – Landscape
• Medium – Acrylic paint
on canvas
• Process – Painting
• Technique – some
impasto areas,
noticeable by raised
brush and palette knife
marks.
Impasto is a painting technique that uses thick paint that dries with actual texture.
Formal Analysis 3: The Elements
•
•
•
LINE– actual lines define
the rows in the field.
SHAPE –both organic
and geometric shapes.
Organic shapes in the
trees and shadows. The
fields are geometric
shapes.
COLOR – The color
scheme is
Complementary: The
colors used in the whole
image are based on
complimentary pairs: redviolet & yellow-green;
purple & yellow; blue &
and orange.
Formal Analysis 4 - Principles
• BALANCE – Asymmetrical
image: the left and right
sides of the image are not
the same. Visual balance is
equal.
• REPETITION – trees, redviolets and polyhedrons
(multisided geometric
shapes) repeat throughout
the image.
• UNITY – image tied
together by the repeating
colors, shapes and the
directional forces of the yshaped river.
Context 1 – Societal and Issues Contexts
• Wayne Thiebaud is a Pop artist – considered a part of the Pop Art
Movement.
• During the 1960s up to today, the societal and cultural context of
California has been filled with issues ranging from drugs to LGBTQ rights,
to economic issues, to Civil Rights and policing issues.
• But Thiebaud is not like Warhol and other Pop artists who had and have
a foundation in social issues and protests.
• Thiebaud is more focused on consumer culture, West Coast optimism,
and the art of “place”. Lives in Northern California and is inspired by
where he lives and works, and by popular culture.
Context 2 – Artistic/Stylistic
Influences, Movements
• Artistic Influences –Abstraction (style and process), Richard
Diebenkorn, commercial art and Pop Art.
– Started as a commercial artist in the late 1930s.
– Began to experiment with Abstraction and Abstract
Expressionism.
• Art Movements - Pop Art, Abstraction
– Joined the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. His subjects
include consumer goods, figures and landscapes.
– Uses the bright colors and simplified designs that identify Pop
Art, and that are also connected with commercial art.
– Abstraction is seen in his method of breaking images into
geometric shapes forming a flattened image.
Context 2 –
Artistic/Stylistic Innovation
• Innovation – Using an
aerial perspective
(literally looking down
from above) from a
steeply angled point
of view.
• Thiebaud uses this
type of perspective
and point of view
(POV) in all landscapes
and for most figures
and still life images
too.
Theme #1 Theme: Art and Community
Community - PLACE –
• The subject of GREEN RIVER DIVIDE
is a landscape of fields and a river.
The title names the place.
• Thiebaud himself is strongly linked to
northern California.
• To Thiebaud, and to his viewers, this
landscape is recognizable.
• Elaine O’Brien, Sacramento State art
professor, described Thiebaud’s
connection to the Sacramento area:
– “When you go to Southern France and
you look around, you say, ‘That’s a
Cézanne,’ ” she says. “Thiebaud does
that. He gives us our [sense of place] like
no one else does.” (Kuz)
Thiebaud - Content
Thiebaud’s art is more about
a connection to place, and to
popular culture and personal
experience and memory - not
about social or political
issues.
• In ways large and small, Mr. Thiebaud’s celebration and
appreciation of the ordinary — “the flotsam and jetsam of
middle-American life” as the philosopher Richard Wollheim once
put it — is resonant of his home turf, the California sense of
optimism.
• “Wayne has the character of this place in his bones,” said Lial
Jones, the director of the Crocker. “There’s a directness about
him, an ease, a humbleness.”
• Both quotes are from NY Times article, “Home Sweet California”
Content – My Interpretation
• Thiebaud helps the viewer to see
that world in new and innovative
ways. His images impart a
simple, clear beauty.
• He creates an abstract simplified
world of jewel-toned colors,
geometric and organic shapes
that form representational
subjects.
• The abstract treatment of the
design and subject limits the
implied meaning or message
(content) making it more of a
WYSIWYG* content.
GREEN RIVER DIVIDE, 2002,
acrylic on canvas, 60”x72”,
Allan Stone Gallery
*WYSIWYG – “what you see is what you get” (from early Apple computers)
Conclusion – 1 & 2
Thiebaud, SELF PORTRAIT, 1987, oc.
No size or location.
1. GREEN RIVER VALLEY is typical of
Wayne Thiebaud’s body of work:
in art form, subject and style. It
is an acrylic painting of an farm
landscape depicted as if it is seen
from the air. The style is a
combination of representation
and abstraction.
2. Thiebaud’s typical content and
theme is the experience of the
everyday world shown through
images of places, things and
people that are part of everyday
culture presented as abstracted
reality.
CONCLUSION – 3
3. I believe Thiebaud does succeed by
depicting the natural landscape as an
abstract, patchwork-quilt. Thiebaud’s
paintings are personal expression for
the artist of his connection to a place
and our experience of the world around
us. He is not an “issue-oriented” artist.
Conclusion 4 – Why Thiebaud?
4. I chose Wayne Thiebaud because I enjoy landscapes and cityscapes from a different
point of view. I also like his use of color and abstraction within the recognizable
image. He is very influential on at least one of my series of paintings.
Barbara Armstrong, MAIN PLAZA,
c. 2008, acrylic and pen on gessoed
paper, 23x22.25 in., artist
The END
DARK CONES, 1964/1999, Watercolor
over sugarlift etching (print), 5x5
inches, Kemper Museum of
Contemporary Art
FIVE SEATED FIGURES, 1965, oil on
canvas, 60 x 72 inches
HILL STREET, 1987, color woodblock
print
RIVERS AND FARMS, 1996, oc, no size,
De Young Museum
TOY MICKEY, 1988, print of a painting,
no size found, no location.
List of Sources (Bibliography)
MLA format
Brown, Patricia Leigh. “Home Sweet California.” NY Times Art & Design. Sept. 29,
2010. Web.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/arts/design/03wayne.html?pagewante
d=all&_r=0
Education, SPARKed SPARK in. "SPARK Educator Guide: Wayne Thiebaud, Visual
Art." March 2009. KQED. PDF.
http://www.kqed.org/assets/pdf/arts/programs/spark/701-thiebaud.pdf
Kuz, Martin. "Wayne Thiebaud {The First 90 Years}." Sactown Magazine Oct.-Nov.
2010: n. pag. - Sactown Magazine. Metropolis Publishing, 2010. Web. 29 Nov.
2015. http://www.sactownmag.com/October-November-2010/WayneThiebaud-The-First-90-Years/index.php?cparticle=1&siarticle=0#artanc
McGuigan, Cathleen. "Wayne Thiebaud Is Not a Pop Artist." Smithsonian
Magazine. February 2011. Web. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/artsculture/wayne-thiebaud-is-not-a-pop-artist-57060/
Nash, Steven A., “Unbalancing Acts: Wayne Thiebaud Reconsidered”. The Artchive.
Web. 19 April 2014. http://artchive.com/artchive/T/thiebaud.html
Continued next slide.
List of Sources continued …
Thiebaud, Wayne. "Oral History Interview with Wayne Thiebaud." Archives of
American Art. Susan Larsen. Smithsonian Institution, 17 May 2001. Web.
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-waynethiebaud-12546
Thiebaud, Wayne. "Special Showing" CBS Sunday Morning. CBS. 27 April 2011.
Uploaded by Artist Archive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v-vl_QJ5D9Qm8
"Wayne Thiebaud." Academy of Achievement. Academy of Achievement,
9 Feb. 2017. Web. 17 Apr. 2017.
http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wayne-Thiebaud
Webb, Poul. "Art and Artists." 23 November 2010. Poul Webb Blog Spot. Web.
2 August 2013. http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2010/11/wayne-thiebaudlandscapes.html
Wikipedia contributors. "Wayne Thiebaud." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 3 Jul. 2017. Web.1 Aug. 2017
End of Bibliography
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NOTES for preparing the
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Contents of Following Slides >>>
1. Formatting Bibliography in PPT – 2
slides.
2. Compress your images – explained on
next slide.
3. Power Point tips – better
presentations.
4. Submitting your PPT.
Bibliography Notes –
3 sources or more, not less.
Correct Formatting
• All citations be complete per MLA Style Sheet.
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• Give URLs (web addresses) if possible. If not, skip that.
• BUT!!!! Not for databases. If you give the web address for the
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– Copy the URL of the actual source, if you can, and give that.
• Citations should be single spaced, with an added space between
entries.
• Bibliography list should be in alpha order by the first letter of the
entry.
• No numbering.
• Bullets will be accepted if you cannot change that format.
Bibliography Notes – Formatting Issues in PPT
Formatting issues in PPT
• PPT does not like to do a correctly formatted MLA list. Copy and
paste from a document. I pasted this in from a Word document
then adjusted size, etc.
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about it. Use bullets instead.
• Slide layout – BLANK or title only. You may use more than one
slide but list should be continuous.
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the actual sources and their citations.
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