I've persistently been drawn to offscale work - small stuff made
huge, humongous stuff made small.....so, of course, I do like
Oldenberg and the sense of humor of most of his work - Pop had a
sense of humor, that was good!!
About Wayne Thiebaud....I've always really liked his work , as
well. He didn't claim association with the Pop school, although
others placed him in it. He placed himself in the "painterly"
school - worked for 10 years or so as a self-taught cartoonist,
then an advertising artist before discovering the abstract
expressionists like Kline and deKooning and then scraping off
some of that paint and getting back to the basics of form. His
early shows got him the title of "the hungriest artist in
California" from some critic (all those pies and cake and
candies, yum). He'd been painting these "pop" subjects since the
50s. He was an instructor at UC Davis to one of my favourite
painting instructors at college, Joe Tanous, and influenced him
greatly, the style became known as the "UC Davis style of
painting." Thiebaud visited a gallery I used to direct - never
identified himself, just left his card.....I was so
disappointed...would have liked to talk with him. I've heard
he's a very quiet, unassuming man, for all his talent.
PK
Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
> > "you ought to make things big
> > people like it that way"
> >
> > andy warhol (as channelled by lou reed)
>
> "Andy Warhol Superstar", David Bowie...
>
> The other approach isnt bad, dont get me wrong ;-)
>
> I just dont think there is a philosophy behind.
> Might be wrong, never been in NYC.
>
> And there are a lot of exemples of collages of
> comics etc in the original size.....
>
> My favourite pop artists were Marisol and this guy
> from california, Wayne Thibeau (?), who painted
> candies etc.
>
> Marisol..there is something in the "Ludwig collection"
> in Cologne, maybe also on the web.
>
> Heiko
