Wayne Thiebaud is a dessert artist who is still alive and lives in Sacramento. He is known for repeating the same shapes in his paintings and using thick paint that looks like icing. The document discusses Thiebaud's artistic style of repetition and variety and defines key art vocabulary terms like repetition, variety, horizon line, and perspective.

1. Wayne ThiebaudWayne Thiebaud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI_QJ5D9Qm8

2. • Wayne Thiebaud
• Dessert artist!
• Loved repeating the same shape
• Liked thick paint (almost like icing!)
• Still alive
• Lives in Sacramento

3. Art VocabularyArt Vocabulary
• Repetition (hint: think ‘repeat’)
• Variety- using different shapes and sizes
• Horizon line- the line at were sky and earth meet.
• Perspective- The appearance of things determined by their
distance from the viewer.

4. What shapes are repeated? Do you see a variety of desserts?
Look carefully at the plates. Can you see the colorful outlines?

5. What shapes are repeated? What color are the shadows?
Do you see the horizon line? Do you see the brightly colored
outlines?

6. What shapes are repeated? Do you see the thick paint?

7. What a nice variety of cakes! Which cake is a different shape?

8. Thick paint…and a new shape…Do you see the horizon line?

9. The slice of cake shows perspective the slice is going
back into space.

10. What lines and shapes are repeated?

11. How are these desserts the same? How are they different?

12. Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington DC.

13. Art VocabularyArt Vocabulary
can you define:can you define:
• Repetition (hint: think ‘repeat’)
• Variety
• Horizon Line
• Perspective