Welcome A beautiful performanceObserver highlights a recently opened museum exhibition in a museum not in New York City, and places we know and like have attracted a lot of attention.
Last year, an AI program released an image to Facebook with the title “This is my first cake! I’m happy for your mark” containing 18 different fake people and their non-existent baked goods. According to a study by Renée Diresta and Josh Goldstein, the results are real human preferences and interactions. Such as Is it a cake? It seems to show that humans cannot resist the performance of the cake, the better the stranger.
Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) is the master of this deception. His cakes are microcosm sliced, full, or lined up, but they always seem to pulsate with bombardment. The New Yorker once brought him to Mrs. M on East 78th Street, where the cake was intricate but subtle, and he condemned “Candy Fun” as “non-American.” But let’s be clear: this person is not interested in the cake itself. As his new retrospective title in the Legion of Honor, Art from Art, suggests, the show explores his art as a self-described thievery exercise, and over the centuries he has conducted new experiments on pigment-based visual techniques.
The exhibition tracks his six decades of career in about 65 works, most of which fall into the still life category, often featuring frosting, cityscapes and other visions, which are the strange chaos of pop music, abstraction and intense portraiture. Thiebaud’s babysitter couldn’t relax. The first painting I greeted you in this exhibition, Betty Jean Thiebaud and books (1965-1969), holding the head to the artist’s wife, like “Now, Wayne?” Like many of his characters, if you look close enough, the lines that make up her are actually miniature rainbows, which is the hint of the psychedelic chaos in this original glum and Buxom Matriarch.
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But his lines are always like that, as if to suggest that we haven’t even scratched his nanny’s depths. Five seats characters (1965) is a group of three men and two women mad Men Rich. They may be waiting for the beginning of preaching or key political parties. I need to even mention that none of them look in the same direction?
I was always looking for cakes as I wandered around, but it was the characters who kept bringing me back to them. This can be traced back to what he snatched from a huge history of art. Girl in pink hat (1973) Not only nude photos and distant; she is taking advantage of the same melancholy expressed by Edgemanette Blonde breasts (1878), as indicated in the catalog. These emotions are profound because they are eternal. Then you start to notice the curiosity rise of her nipples and recognize the angles in some of his landscapes. Thiebaud depicts everything as a boulder, which means even the whole appears mundane. Laguna Rises (2003/2010/2012/2018) There is a city on the top of the mountain that is definitely made of frosting. “Is it a cake?” For Thiebaud, everything is.
“Wayne Thiebaud: Art comes from art“Until August 17, 2025, he has been in the Legion of Honor.
