This blog has taken a dark turn lately. Painter Wayne Thiebaud has died. He died on Christmas at the age of 101. This is Boston Cremes painted in 1962. It demonstrates the qualities that I love in Thiebaud paintings. The thick impasto, the luminous shadows, the hilarious banality of the subject matter. Thiebaud’s paintings are, for me, pure pleasure.
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud
This blog has taken a dark turn lately. Painter Wayne Thiebaud has died. He died on Christmas at the age of 101. This is Boston Cremes painted in 1962. It demonstrates the qualities that I love in Thiebaud paintings. The thick impasto, the luminous shadows, the hilarious banality of the subject matter. Thiebaud’s paintings are, for me, pure pleasure.