The Slice-of-Cake School  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

"Thiebaud, like any traditional painter became interested in how light affected objects, particulary the garish glare of bulbs and fluorescent tubes that made objects seem to swell with importance."--"The Slice-of-Cake School" (1962) by Bruce Barton, Jr.

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

"The Slice-of-Cake School" (1962) is a text by Bruce Barton, Jr. published in Time Magazine on May 11, 1962.

The piece included a portion of Warhol's silkscreened 200 One Dollar Bills, along with Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Wayne Thiebaud. Warhol was the only artist whose photograph appeared in the article, which is indicative of his knack for manipulating the mass media.

Incipit:

It was said of Zeuxis, the great artist of ancient Greece, that he could paint a bunch of grapes so realistically that birds would try to eat them. This was an impressive skill, but art has long since aspired to more than carbpn-copy realism.
Now a segment of the advance guard has suddenly pulled a switch. Unknown to one another, a group of painters have come to the common conclusion that the most banal and even vulgar trappings of modern civilization can, when transposed literally to convas, becomes Art.





Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "The Slice-of-Cake School" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools