Gallery says California artist who started as an animator but rejected pop art label worked past the age of 100
His death was confirmed in a statement on Sunday by his gallery, Acquavella, which did not say where or when he died.
“Of course, you’re thankful when anyone ever calls you anything,” he said. “But I never felt much a part of it. I must say I never really liked pop art very much.” in New York who helped organize a 2001 retrospective. “And with the cakes, you get this great sense of texture with the frosting. You just want to step close and lick it.”were outlined in neon pinks and blues that made the objects appear to glow. Shadows were often a rich blue.Thiebaud told PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in 2000 the subject of food was “fun and humorous, and that’s dangerous in the art world, I think.
In 2004, a New York Times writer praised Thiebaud’s “wry vision of modern consumerism” and said: “No one did more to reanimate the tired old genre of still life painting in the last half century than did Mr Thiebaud with his paintings of industrially regimented food products.”Photograph: San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images
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