Word: thiebaud
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...find inspiration. A trip to the supermarket with his 5-year-old leads him to think about how art transfigures the commonplace, which puts him in mind of the hushed brown crockery in the still lifes of Jean-Baptiste-Simon Chardin and the pulsating gum balls of Wayne Thiebaud, which in turn bring him to a wise and lovely conclusion: "Artists who push us to look more carefully at simple things may also strike a slightly melancholic note. They remind us of a childlike condition of wonderment that we abandoned once we became adults and that we need...
...older brother, James A. Carmichael ’01; Tom Stoppard, the playwright; Bill Waterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes; and Wayne Thiebaud, the painter...
...brief glimpse into some compelling issues in landscape is provided by two photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, and a painting by Wayne Thiebaud. For Sugimoto, the landscape is a stark and stripped down depiction of solitude and metaphysical expanse. His black and white photographs contain a palpable sense of isolation and alienation that combine in a deafening silence. The deliberate absence of figures establishes tension between the perceived serenity and implied longing. The elegant simplicity and minimalism is indicative of Sugimoto’s cultural roots in Japanese aesthetics...
...painting, “Diagonal Ridge,” is a whimsical meditation on the visual challenges of representing space. This piece is less wedded to its specific subject matter than to the actual process of painting, particularly the process of translating space onto a resolutely flat surface. Thiebaud engages the painting in a play between spatial illusion and material flatness, where large geometric expanses of color dance with the more delicate details that split the picture plane. The viewer is delighted by the use of a playful assortment of colors and an almost comical progression of tree clusters that...
While reading Robert Hughes' article "The Poetry of Pastry," on the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud [ART, July 16], I was stopped by a word very fitting but never before imagined. In describing Thiebaud's painting of pies, Hughes wrote of "coconut icing soft and fluffy as a baby angel's wingpits." Your critic outdid himself with that one. As a columnist for a small-town newspaper, I appreciate the need for a word that really fits. I've made up a few, but wingpits conjures up a physical tickle. Hughes is a treasure. JEANNE FRESHWATER Nehalem...