Behind The Scenes With Wayne Thiebaud
http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/vid/thieba.html Artist Wayne Thiebaud shows
how volume, shape, feeling and movement can transform a simple line into
art.
I am looking for a lesson plan for Wayne Thiebaud. Please post to the list.
Below are some links I have found.
Biography:
Born in 1920 at Mesa, Arizona. Before becoming an artist in 1947, he worked
as a sign painter, cartoonist, commercial artist, illustrator, designer and
publicity manager in New York and California. From 1942 to 1945 he served in
the Air Force and painted murals for the army. In 1949-50 he studied at the
San José State University and from 1950 to 1953 at the California State
University, Sacramento. In 1951 he had his first one-man exhibition at the
Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. From 1954 to 1957 he produced
eleven educational films, for which he won the Scholastic Art Prize in 1961.
From 1951 to 1961 he taught at Sacramento City College, and from 1960 to
1976 at the University of California, Davis. He has had many exhibitions in
the USA, including one at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in
1981. In 1972 he was in the documenta "5", Kassel. Using oleaginous pigment
and the over-emphatic colors and well-defined shadows of advertisements, he
paints everyday imagery - usually sweet and creamy cakes and pastries -
whose sensuous attraction is reduced to absurdity by the conceptual and
illusionistic structures of his painting. (From WWW POP ART
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~toms/PopArt/Biographies/thiebaud.html.iso-8859-1)
Wayne Thiebaud etchings (great tie in for plexi-glas etchings)
http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/thiebaud/ "There's nothing really that
I've ever found in other lines that is like an etched line-its fidelity, the
richness of it, the density -you just don't get that any other way."
ArtBurst.com" Wayne Thiebaud (watch out for banner adds on this site ---but
has good images) http://www.artburst.com/waynethiebaud/
Many other artists are featured on this site - give some background
information too.
