{"id":243614,"date":"2025-05-15T20:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/cakewalk\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:32:29","slug":"cakewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=243614","title":{"rendered":"Cakewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>I like to say that the only truly original artist was the man or woman who drew that first mastodon on the cave wall. All other artists have been stealing from that person ever since. Wayne Thiebaud, currently the subject of a wonderful exhibition at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, would agree with me. The exhibition, \u201cArt Comes From Art,\u201d foregrounds a practice grounded in his statement, \u201cI believe very much in the tradition that art comes from art and nothing else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thiebaud still gets mentioned in discussions of Pop Art, but, as Timonthy Burgard, Senior Curator at the de Young Museum points out in the exhibition\u2019s accompanying video, Thiebaud has none of the irony that suffuses the work of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, or Tom Wesselman, and his paintings have none of the flatness that characterizes Warhol\u2019s silk screens, Lichtenstein\u2019s Ben Day dots, or Wesselman\u2019s collaged works. Thiebaud was in love with oil; all of his subjects are caressed with delicious impasto.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_image et_pb_image_0\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reaganupshawfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Thiebaud__Sexton_3_18_25.jpg\" alt=\"Ida O\u2019Keeffe, \u201cFlowers (Gardenias in a Pitcher)\u201d 1932\nOil on canvas, 8 x 7 inches\nPhoto courtesy Christie\u2019s New York\n\" title=\"Thiebaud__Sexton_3_18_25\" class=\"wp-image-2372\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_1  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\">Installation view of Wayne Thiebaud <em>Art Comes From Art<\/em> exhibition, 2025.<br \/>Photo by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_2  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thiebaud was from a working-class background and first studied art at a trade school in Los Angeles.\u00a0 Following service in World War II, he attended state colleges in San Jose and Sacramento.\u00a0 His first art mentor was the head of the advertising department at the Los Angeles firm for which he worked.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thiebaud was never ashamed of his roots in commercial art; indeed, as he once quipped, \u201cI don\u2019t care much for Pop Art. It\u2019s too close, I think, to advertising, which I think is better.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thiebaud had a passionate interest in art history, however, and began teaching soon after receiving his master\u2019s degree.\u00a0 He would continue to teach for the rest of his life, the longest stint being at the University of California at Davis.\u00a0 A leave of absence from teaching during the 1956-57 school year allowed Thiebaud to spend time in New York, where he was befriended by Willem De Kooning and Franz Kline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like the best teachers, Thiebaud was a lifelong student as well, one who made his own small copies of the Old Master paintings he loved, several of which are included in the exhibition.\u00a0 A major tribute to the artists Thiebaud admired is a large painting, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">35 Cent Masterworks<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which shows a rack of 12 postcards depicting works from artists as varied as Diego Velasquez and Willem De Kooning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nod to De Kooning is a key to understanding Thiebaud\u2019s work.\u00a0 Because of his subject matter (cakes, lollypops, gumball machines), Thiebaud was included in the 1962 exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery in New York which is credited with introducing Pop Art to New York audiences. That same year, he was included in a significant exhibition entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New Painting of Common Objects<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, organized by noted curator Walter Hopps for the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), which brought nationwide attention to the movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But while Thiebaud was initially yoked to Warhol <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">et al,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> he really belongs to a group of West Coast artists such as David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, and Elmer Bischoff, who began as Abstract Expressionists and then returned to recognizable subject matter while maintaining their painterly chops.\u00a0 This exhibition is about paint, not cakes and candy.\u00a0 The subject matter, however, certainly helps account for Thiebaud\u2019s widespread popularity.\u00a0 His cake paintings have sold for seven and even eight figures at auction.\u00a0 A 17 x 21-inch oil of a slice of pie a-la-mode is expected to bring somewhere between $1,200,000 and $1,800,000 at a sale at Bonhams next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But you don\u2019t need that kind of money to enjoy a lovely Thiebaud. The Legion of Honor show is on view until August 17.\u00a0 There are currently no plans for it to tour, so get yourself on a plane to San Francisco.\u00a0 You may or may not leave your heart there, but your eyes\u00a0 will come back thoroughly satisfied.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganupshawfineart.com\/cakewalk\/\">Cakewalk<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganupshawfineart.com\">Reagan Upshaw Fine Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to say that the only truly original artist was the man or woman who drew that first mastodon on the cave wall. All other artists have been stealing from that person ever since. 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