Discussion Questions
Valley Streets
Wayne Thiebaud
November 2018
Wayne Thiebaud, Valley Streets, 2003; The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York; photo: courtesy Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
- Describe the lines, shapes, and colors in this work. Can you find any geometric shapes? Organic shapes?
- Do you see any areas in the painting where the artist used complementary colors next to each other, such as orange and blue? Green and red? Yellow and violet?
- Which objects are closest to you in this work? What is farthest away?
- If you were sitting in the back of the school bus, how would you feel? What sounds would you hear? What smells would you smell?
