This document provides information about Pop Art and the work of American artist Wayne Thiebaud. It begins with a definition of Pop Art as an artistic movement that emerged in the 1950s and used imagery from popular culture and mass media. Key Pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are mentioned. The document then discusses Thiebaud's life and career, noting that he is associated with Pop Art for his interest in depicting everyday objects. Examples of Thiebaud's colorful paintings of cakes, pastries and toys are shown. The document concludes with instructions for students to create their own Pop Art-style drawings in the manner of Thiebaud or Warhol.

1. POP ART AND THE WORK OF
WAYNE THIEBAUD.
Oil Pastel drawings
Three machines,
1963

2. Pop Art: A New Artistic Movement
• What Is Pop Art?
-The term Pop-Art was invented by British curator Lawrence Alloway
in 1955, to describe a new form of "Popular" art - a movement
characterized by the imagery of consumerism and popular
culture.
-Challenged traditional art through the use of the mass-produced
popular culture could be considered “fine art”.
- Removed the material from its context and isolates the object, or
combines it with other objects, for contemplation.
Floor Burger
(1971) Claes
Oldenburg
Three Flags
(1958) Jasper
Johns

3. Pop Art History Continued
• Abstract Expressionism: This movement was the popular form of art at the time.
(1950’s)
• This school of art believed in “painterly” strokes and using ones subconscious to
create work.
• Pop Art reacted to this by playing on motifs found in the visual culture. Instead of
isolating oneself in the mind, pop artists synthesized the commercial world and
held the mirror up to it.
Franz Klein Andy Warhol

4. Pop cont…
• Thus they focused on the preoccupations shared by
most American consumers: food, cars , death, and
love.
• Typically, this was achieved using brash, or satirical,
imagery with strong visual impact: ”we are holding
the mirror up to "modern society”.
• Pop-art was "the" post-war expression of a world
wholly preoccupied the pursuit of materialism.
Just what is it That Makes Today’s
Homes so Different, so
Appealing? (1956) Richard
Hamilton
President Elect (1960) James Rosenquist

5. INFLUENECES OF POP
• What invention
was made
available to the
American home in
1950?
• Hint: You all have
one to this day in
the home, and are
frequent users of
it… I’m guessing 
Roy Lichtenstein

6. TELEVISION!!!!

7. TELEVISION!
• Television was a constant
stream of images and
commercials that had never
been that close to the
American people until this
time.
• Children now could watch
cartoons in their home
instead of just before movies.
Rock-n-Roll was streamed
into homes, where now pop
idols had a face with a voice.

8. More Pop Art Examples:
Wham! (1963) Roy
Lichtenstein
Soft Toilet (1966)
Claes Oldenburg
Marilyn Monroe
(1962) Andy
Warhol
James Rosenquist
I Love You With
My Ford 1961

9. Wayne Thiebaud: San Francisco Pop Artsist
• Wayne Thiebaud (born November 15,
1920) is a Bay Area painter.
• Most famous works are of cakes, pastries,
toys and lipsticks.
• His last name is pronounced "Tee-bo."
• He is associated with the Pop Art
movement because of his interest in
objects of mass culture.
• Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and
exaggerated colors to depict his subjects,
and the well-defined shadows
characteristic of advertisements are
almost always included in his work.
• Wayne Thiebaud currently teachers at UC
Davis.
Boston Creams, Acrylic, 1969

10. MORE EXAMPLES OF
THIEBAUD’S WORK.

12. Thiebaud’s work cont…

13. Thiebaud’s work cont…

14. Project Description:
Your challenge is to create
your own POP-Art drawing
in the style of Wayne
Thiebaud or Andy Warhol.
• Option #1: Using Oil Pastels as
your medium you will choose a
“mundane” object as the
subject matter and using
repetition create your drawing.
• Option # 2 Using a mirror or
source photograph create a
Wayne Thiebaud inspired
drawing of a person or portrait.
Remember to exaggerate your
lights and darks and really try
your best to draw without a
grid.
• Option # 3: Using the oil pastels
draw a still life of a personal
object under specific light
“bring the object in class”. This
object should have significant
meaning for you.

15. • Wayne Thiebaud
incorporated
bright and
unexpected colors
in his work.
• Remember this
when you draw
and color you
piece.

16. Remember SKETCHING comes first. Please develop a concept
sketch of your objects!

17. Student work

18. STUDENT WORK – Repetition of object

19. Oil Pastel coloring techniques
• -We are practicing
drawing an apple from
observation.

20. Practicing - Oil Pastel coloring techniques
• Step 1: LIGHTLY draw
the contour of your
object, subject.
• Do not shade with
your pencil- save that
for the oil pastels.

21. Oil Pastel coloring techniques
• Step 2: Looking at your
object choose its
MEDIUM color.
• This is the color that is
not the lightest or the
darkest.
• Color these medium
tones in each part of your
drawing. Use broad light
strokes- DO NOT press
hard with the oil pastels
at this point.

22. Oil Pastel coloring techniques
• Step 3 : Choose different
light and dark tones.
• Start lightly blocking in
the light and darks.
• This is why it is most
important that you have a
reference and not making
it up. References take the
guess work out of color
choice.
• DO NOT press hard yet
with the pastels. Build up
your service first.

23. Oil Pastel coloring techniques
• Step 4: Now, using your
MEDIUM tone start blending
your colors together. This
means you can press hard with
the pastels now.
• Because we are working with
POP Art style, feel free to
squeeze in unexpected colors.
• After that press hard with your
lights and darks to make your
drawing richer!
• You can also use your fingers
to smooth pigment together.

24. Here is a video demo too!
• http://youtu.be/dUWC
BsRaKxo
• Have fun and be
inventive with color!