Can we start a tuesday easier than just with a simple glance to a few street art pieces that popped up in front of my eyes this morning?
NO!:)

Take it easy and enjoy your week! Stay with me – as there are some lovely posts coming up this week.

I was definitely longing for sweets when I decided to write that little article yesterday night about Wayne Thiebaud.
First a glimpse and a bite…than you will know what I mean!

This American painter was born 1920 – and this not somewhere:) but in a Mormon family! in Mesa, Arizona, U.S.A. Waouh..not an evident start I guess to be liberated in your mind.
In his high school years although he was an apprentice at the Walt Disney Pictures walt Disney Studio – I guess that could be one hint to where his choice of children issues come from. And here another one as he further worked as a cartoonist and designer in California and NY.

So there you go – as you understood that it’s not all about cakes:)- but as well lipsticks, toys, boots or toilets. I do like his bubble gum/ vintage world of the 50′s & 60′s.
Moreover it was quite striking to me that the artist was a male person. It is more or less a child world in my eyes that Mister Thiebaud depicts, by using exaggerated colors and heavy pigments. Thiebaud is in general often put into association with Pop Art due to his object interest and his way of exposing them.

The more I am looking at his art, the more evident it got to me that even though his topics are really girlie style, there is this concrete painted line where we can guess that the artwork is done by a male person. Anyway- I enjoyed this visual journey and I hope you did too!
Last but not least: My favorite two of Wayne:)

The doll box

Bubble etching

WAOUH! and I so DO love this piece so much! One of my favorites. The pureness of every piece, the elegance, the dramatic side, it’s like a kind of yin/ yang, it’s just perfect in my eyes!

Motohiko Odani was born 1972 in Kyoto. He studied sculpture and fine Art at Tokyo University of the Arts, where he specialises in uniquely dynamic sculptural art. In 2003 he represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. Odani’s work is so multisided – going from C-prints to video installations, as well as sculptures and objects. It’s so 21th century!!:)
The materials he uses are mainly paraffin, steel and reinforced special plastic fibres, giving a filament-like quality to the work.
Between organic and a fluently flair…I have to admit that I prefer the pure white objects to those of the more organic and dark ones….but from the artistic point of view her ideas and diversity in the topics are magnificent and still there is a red line to find…

I can’t wait to see more of this Japanese artist in the future! Definitely someone who is worth to follow!