Bay Area artist Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) became famous for his colorful paintings of cakes and buffets. He describ ed himself as an art &ldquo\;thief&rdquo\; who openly appropriated and rei nterpreted old and new European and American artworks. An influential teac her at Sacramento Junior College and the University of California\, Davis\ , Thiebaud felt art history was a continuum that connects artists of the p ast\, present and future\, and that &ldquo\;art comes from art and nothing else&rdquo\;. Highlighting work from across the beloved artist&rsquo\;s s ix-decade career\, the exhibition features Thiebaud&rsquo\;s inventive rei nterpretations and direct copies of famous artworks. Also included are ori ginal artworks by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres\, Henri Matisse\, and Rich ard Diebenkorn that Thiebaud acquired for his personal collection. The qui ntessential works by Thiebaud &ndash\;&ndash\; paintings of people\, cakes and other ordinary objects\, cityscapes and mountain landscapes &ndash\;& ndash\; offer an in-depth exploration of one of the most important and ove rlooked aspects of his creative practice: his passionate engagement with a rt history.
\nArt docent Kathryn Zupsic has been an art educator for over 25 years\, working as a docent and lecturer for the Santa Barbara Mu seum of Art\, the deYoung Museum\, Legion of Honor\, and SFMOMA. She has g iven hundreds of presentations to adults and students in the Bay Area and on the Central Coast\, and now heads up the virtual Art Talks program for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. A native of Portland\, Kathryn has a degree in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of Oregon and is a graduate of La Varenne chef school in Paris.
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