This artist did not consider himself a pop artist despite many works being advertisement-esque paintings of pop culture objects. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this artist, whose paintings often featured off-white backgrounds with rows of everyday foodstuffs like candies, ice cream cones, and pies.
ANSWER: Wayne Thiebaud (”tee-BOH”) [or Morton Wayne Thiebaud]
[10m] Thiebaud is associated with an art movement from this state that emerged as a response to Abstract Expressionism. David Park and Richard Diebenkorn are other artists from this state’s “figurative movement.”
ANSWER: California
[10e] Several Bay Area Figurative Movement artists including Thiebaud and Bischoff (”BIS-koff”) were inspired by this American realist painter of works such as Chop Suey and Nighthawks.
ANSWER: Edward Hopper
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