Wayne Thiebaud is one of the most celebrated artist of America who is known for his food paintings. He had a real knack of capturing day to day life with bright colors. "Three Machines" stands for his amazing talent of capturing a quintessential American picture on a canvas. He draws inspiration from childhood nostalgia and yesteryear.
Three Machines has elements of everyday life and typical American imagery represented through the use of Blue, Red and Yellow colors. It represents three gumball machines filled with candies like the American culture- cosmopolitan, pluralistic and vibrant. Thiebaud believes painting to be "a gadget for stimulating the greatest series of associations and responses."
There are two types of shapes: geometric and free-form Our bodies take up space as do all shapes and forms that are freestanding are surrounded by negative space whereas relief sculpture projects into negative space.