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Afternoon Art

Display Cakes, By Wayne Thiebaud (1963)

3 comments

1 thelarmis   ~  May 27, 2010 4:00 pm

i've never had cake before. not even a display cake! : )

i do like the shadows in the art, however...

2 Sliced Bread   ~  May 27, 2010 4:21 pm

before there was Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes, there was
Suzyn Waldman and The Display Cakes

3 Alex Belth   ~  May 27, 2010 4:25 pm

Oh and they are great paintings to see live too. They are very painterly, meaning there is a lot of paint and you can see how he was working things out, painting over stuff, etc. They look good enough to eat in real life.

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