2Feb/104
Mariposaaah!!!
The artist Wayne Thiebaud is known for his paintings of "cakes, pastries...and toilets," but this 1977 interpretation of a mythical intersection at 24th Street and Mariposa, submitted by friend o' the blog Jacki, is our favorite - for obvious reasons.
Thiebaud once said:
"I was playing around with the abstract notions of edge - I was fascinated, living in San Francisco, by the way different streets just came in and then just vanished. So I sat out on a street corner and began to paint them." It was the "sense of edges appearing, things swooping around their own edges that I loved," he recounted (Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective, exh. cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2000, p. 58).
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February 2nd, 2010 - 14:26
Where is that? I don’t know Mariposa offhand, and google maps only turns up a Mariposa street that’s parallel to 24th…
February 2nd, 2010 - 16:05
ha, good point. i’m gonna assume the artist worked off a photo and titled the piece based on an error. that, or the fact that Mariposa doesn’t intersect 24th is part of the painter’s abstraction.
February 2nd, 2010 - 20:13
I’m curious to see the spot in person…hmm.
(Did you add “mythical” to the post since I commented or am I just really spacey?)
February 3rd, 2010 - 14:37
Weather they intersect or not..it’s a great painting! Would love to see more!