Unreal American summertime
FINLEY RHYS
In Summer Days at Acquavella, Wayne Thiebaud paints an unrelentingly American hallucination.
His narrow, sweet, indulgent view of America is uniform. Yet, when summer is a time of leisure, abundance, and nostalgia, he introduces an unreality, and an impasse, to the illusory nature of the American dream. His paintings do not simply employ the existing logic of American Summertime - they reconstruct its artifice into a glimpse of something more profound and enduring - he reminds us of our digestion of pleasure; how do we interpret joy?
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