Wayne Thiebaud's delicious art!

Wayne Thiebaud is a pop artist who is famous for his paintings of delicious food.  He uses a lot of repetition in his work.

He also uses the Elements of Art.  For example, Form.

Form means creating an object to be or look three-dimensional. It has height, length, width, and depth. Here are some three-dimensional forms: pyramid, cylinder, sphere, cube.

Wayne thiebaud from woolridgep

Waynethiebaud2 from George Kelly Elementary

We are going to use repetition in our first project inspired by Thiebaud's art. 

You can also play this game:


National Gallery of Art Thiebaud Cake Interactive

For your art project you are going to draw something four times.  It can be an object, food, or whatever you want. Think about the colours you are going to use.

Here is an example by another Pop artist, Andy Warhol.

20th Century Spain

Here is a Power Point to help you study for your test.

20th century Spain from Kathleen Marcy

Here is a link to a page that has many activities (in Spanish) to help you understand or to get morer information.

Good luck!

Gaudí and his "trencadís" style

Antoni Gaudí was a Spanish artist and architect who lived and worked in the 19th and 20th centuries (he was born in 1852 and died in 1926.)  One of the techniques he used was "trencadís"-- a mosaic form using broken ceramic tiles to add colour and shapes to a design.

Here are some examples of his work:


A lizard from Parque Guell in Barcelona




Benches in Parque Guell

We are going to take inspriration from this technique for our next art project!

Use of Colour

Here are some paintings that show use of color:

Picasso, La habitación azul, 1901

Cool colours

Van Gogh, Casa en Auvers, 1890

Analogous colours (next to each other on the color wheel)

Degas, Bailarinas en la barra, 1888

Complementary colours (opposite on the colour wheel)

Matisse, Interior con cortina egipcia, 1948

Complementary colours (red and green)

Cool colours (green and blue)

Rothko, Untitled 1968

Warm colours

You can see all of these paintings and more right here in Madrid at the CaixaForum.

They have an exhibit called "Impressionistas y modernos" that is open until October 23rd.  It is a special collection of famous paintings from the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

What do you think?

Virtual Visit to the Sorolla Museum in Madrid

Would you like to visit the Sorolla Museum?  You can do it from your computer: