Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1963

Third Graders used the art of Wayne Thiebaud as inspiration for their fabulous cake paintings.
First we learned to draw a cylinder with an ellipse an then we "frosted" and decorated our cakes.
click here to see some of our finished cakes.
 

In 1961, Thiebaud’s food paintings—images of cakes, pies, candy, gumball machines, and deli counters painted with thick paint in bright colors—were exhibited in New York. They were a big hit! Though some scholars called Thiebaud a Pop artist because he painted popular consumer goods, he said he painted them out of nostalgia; they reminded him of his boyhood and the best of America.

“My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.” - Wayne Thiebaud



Wayne Thiebaud, Around the Cake, 1962


Wayne Thiebaud, Pies, Pies, Pies, 1961


Wayne Thiebaud, Baked Alaska, 1964