{"id":450479,"date":"2025-02-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/?p=450479"},"modified":"2025-02-20T09:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:08:27","slug":"wayne-thiebaud-art-comes-from-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/02\/wayne-thiebaud-art-comes-from-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Thiebaud&#8217;s Passion for Art History Shines in  &#8216;Art Comes from Art&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-default entry-header is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"colo-post-featured-image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"a painting by Wayne Thiebauld of a meal spread with dishes of fish, ham, chicken, appetizers, and desserts in pastel oil paint\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-1-640x511.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-1-960x767.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-1-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-1-1536x1226.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Buffet&#8221; (1972-1975), oil on canvas, 48 1\/8 x 60 1\/8 inches. Photo by Katherine Du Tiel. All images \u00a9 Wayne Thiebaud Foundation,  licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, courtesy of UC Press, shared with permission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group post-title is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><h1 class=\"alignfull wp-block-post-title\">Wayne Thiebaud&#8217;s Passion for Art History Shines in  &#8216;Art Comes from Art&#8217;<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull post-meta is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-02-20T05:00:00-06:00\">February 20, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a class=\"category-art\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/category\/art\/\" rel=\"tag\">Art<\/a><a class=\"category-books\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/category\/books\/\" rel=\"tag\">Books<\/a><a class=\"category-history\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"tag\">History<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/author\/kmothes\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"wp-block-post-author-name__link\">Kate Mothes<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull post-share-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-outermost-social-sharing has-visible-labels has-icon-color is-style-logos-only is-layout-flex wp-block-social-sharing-is-layout-flex\"><li style=\"color: #1c1e0d; 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The renowned artist once said, &#8220;It&#8217;s hard for me to think of artists who weren&#8217;t influential on me because I&#8217;m such a blatant thief.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next month, a major retrospective highlights Thiebaud&#8217;s six-decade career, featuring around 60 quintessential works spanning a range of subject matter. From his celebrated still-lifes of dessert displays and prosaic household objects to portraits, cityscapes, and expansive natural vistas, <em>Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art<\/em> takes a deep dive into the artist&#8217;s engagement with art history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-3-960x801.jpg\" alt=\"a painting of five people seated on chairs, with three men in the background and two women in the foreground, all facing slightly different directions\" class=\"wp-image-450483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-3-960x801.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-3-640x534.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-3-768x641.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-3-1536x1282.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Five Seated Figures&#8221; (1965 ), oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thiebaud spent time in the 1950s with abstract artists like Franz Kline and Elaine and Willem de Kooning in New York City, where he also met Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns whose mixed-media practices incorporated found objects in conceptual, proto-<a href=\"\/tags\/pop-art\">Pop Art<\/a> paintings and assemblages. While in the city, Thiebaud made small paintings of food displayed on windows, which he further explored when he returned to California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thiebaud&#8217;s career originated with a focus on illustration and cartoons, which aligned with the emergence of Pop Art in the U.S. in the early 1960s. A response to the austerity of the First and Second World Wars, the movement celebrated bold colors, repetition, and everyday objects and commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Art Comes from Art<\/em> showcases how Thiebaud borrowed from the breadth of European and American masterworks, from Henri Matisse to Richard Diebenkorn to Andrea Mantegna. \u201cI believe very much in the tradition that art comes from art and nothing else,&#8221; the artist said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thiebaud copied, reinterpreted, mashed up, and transformed art history into his own artistic vision, viewing other artists&#8217; cumulative work as a kind of archive or repository\u2014an encyclopedic &#8220;bureau of standards&#8221; that he could &#8220;steal&#8221; from while simultaneously paying tribute to titans of the Western art canon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-2-960x796.jpg\" alt=\"a painting of three gum ball machines in a row against a white background\" class=\"wp-image-450482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-2-960x796.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-2-640x531.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-2-768x637.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-2-1536x1274.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Three Machines&#8221; (1963), oil on canvas, 30 x 36 1\/2 inches. Photo by Randy Dodson, courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In oil paintings like &#8220;35 Cent Masterpieces,&#8221; Thiebaud renders a display of artwork reproductions evocative of postcards or bookshelves in a museum gift shop. And lighting redolent of Edward Hopper, also known for depicting everyday American scenes, contrasts the subjects of &#8220;Five Seated Figures.&#8221; Along with Thiebauld&#8217;s vibrant, buttery portrayals of meals and treats with characteristically glowing blue shadows, additional pieces reference Rembrandt, George Seurat, \u00c9douard Manet, and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art<\/em> opens at San Francisco&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famsf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Legion of Honor<\/a> on March 22 and continues through August 17. The show is accompanied by a catalog published by UC Press slated for release in mid-April. Find your copy on <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/96\/9780520418325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bookshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-5-960x753.jpg\" alt=\"an oil painting by Wayne Thiebauld of two small chickens or hens in a white enamel tray with blue edges\" class=\"wp-image-450485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-5-960x753.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-5-640x502.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-5-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-5-1536x1205.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-5.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Bar-B-Qued Chickens&#8221; (1961), oil on canvas, 19 x 24 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-9-960x1169.jpg\" alt=\"a dramatic vertical oil painting of mountain-like canyon edges with tiny trees on top and a blue sky background\" class=\"wp-image-450523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-9-960x1169.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-9-640x780.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-9-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-9-1261x1536.jpg 1261w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-9-1681x2048.jpg 1681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Canyon Mountains&#8221; (2011-2012), oil on canvas, 66 1\/8 x 54 1\/8 inches. Photo by Katherine Du Tiel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-6-960x1167.jpg\" alt=\"an oil painting portrait of a woman against a white background, seated behind a white table with her elbow resting on it, with an open book in front of her\" class=\"wp-image-450486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-6-960x1167.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-6-640x778.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-6-768x934.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-6-1263x1536.jpg 1263w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-6-1684x2048.jpg 1684w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebauld-6.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Betty Jean Thiebaud and Book&#8221; (1965-1969), oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-8-960x1289.jpg\" alt=\"the cover of the book art comes from art\" class=\"wp-image-450522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-8-960x1289.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-8-640x859.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-8-768x1031.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-8-1144x1536.jpg 1144w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-8-1526x2048.jpg 1526w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thiebaud-8.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Front cover of &#8216;Art Comes from Art&#8217; featuring &#8220;35 Cent Masterworks&#8221; (1970-1972), oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) knew how to appropriate most ardently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2306,"featured_media":450481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,3059,1320],"tags":[1529,1332,110,409,3674],"class_list":["post-450479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-history","tag-art-history","tag-food-2","tag-painting","tag-portraits","tag-wayne-thiebaud"],"acf":{"acf_sponsor_post":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wayne Thiebaud&#039;s Passion for Art History Shines in &#039;Art Comes from Art&#039; 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