# @hyperallergic on Instagram - **Type:** Image - **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLhq5ERRgEZ - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33969923-hyperallergic-instagram - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d5588b27b3.jpg - **Posted:** 2025-06-30T13:09:48.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic ## Caption There’s nothing nicer than going into a major museum show like “Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art” at the Legion of Honor filled with wariness around its (obvious?) premise and leaving not just convinced, but charmed. To be clear, bquinnterest was already a Thiebaud fan. Colorful and fun, while deeply earnest about the enterprise of art making, his paintings seem to take serious delight in his subjects and sources, whether exquisite cakes or a sprawling California Delta landscape. And though his work has often been understood in the context of his native California — those dramatic rural and urban landscapes, that bright palette, all those saccharine goodies — isn’t the idea that it’s also indebted to earlier art a given? Why should it be different for Thiebaud than any other painter? Turns out, it’s a difference of degree, and Thiebaud cranked his art amp to 11. Read the full review by Bridget Quinn at the link in bio. . . . 1 - Wayne Thiebaud, "Buffet" (1972–75), oil on canvas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (© Wayne Thiebaud Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; photograph: Katherine Du Tiel) 3 - Wayne Thiebaud “35 Cent Masterworks” (1970–72), oil on canvas; Wayne Thiebaud Foundation (© Wayne Thiebaud Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY) 4 - Wayne Thiebaud “Display Cakes” (1963), oil on canvas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (© Wayne Thiebaud Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; photograph: Don Ross, Katherine Du Tiel) 6 - Wayne Thiebaud “Five Seated Figures” (1965), oil on canvas; Wayne Thiebaud Foundation (© Wayne Thiebaud Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY) #WayneThiebaud #LegionofHonor #Painting #PopArt #CaliforniaArt #Cakes ## Stats - **Views:** 0 - **Likes:** 696 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 10 ## Tags popart, waynethiebaud, legionofhonor, cakes, californiaart, painting --- Copyright (c) Gondola