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| Art Reviews, Inspiration, Painting | |
The Wayne Thiebaud exhibit at the Loveland Museum is gorgeous.
I went for the cakes (there’s something deliciously subversive about all that sugar) but ended up falling for his newer work – vertiginous, playful landscapes – a few of which are on view in this nice slideshow by the Sacramento Bee. Of course, Thiebaud’s paintings are right and wonderful as they are, but I can’t help wondering how even MORE wonderful they’d be if they’d been rendered in wax. Thiebaud has a fantastic brushstroke that’s both indulgent and restrained. it’s hard to see in reproduction, but he makes these careful linear strokes and then mars them with goopy flourishes. It’s a sensual technique that seems ready-made for encaustic. I’m a sucker for museum gift stores and picked up this sweet little book Counting with Wayne Thiebaud
It’s nice to know that, at 88, some people still paint like rock stars. | |
when I was there. Its cropped reproductions show Thiebaud’s brushstrokes fairly well.
