Coroner: Valium, alcohol killed painter Kinkade

Associated Press ^ | May 7, 2012

[Free ThinkerNY]

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- An autopsy has found that artist Thomas Kinkade's death was caused by an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription tranquilizers.

NBC Bay Area News reported Monday (( http://bit.ly/Jsgrvg) ) that the Santa Clara County medical examiner concluded that the self-described "Painter of Light" stopped breathing at his Northern California home on April 6 from a combination of alcohol and Valium.

[ClearCase_guy]

I smell a cover-up. I think this guy Kinkade knew too much about Breibart.

[Revolting cat!]

Bad art kills!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

What up, CCG? I’m not sure I follow ya.

[Revolting cat!]

The most famous work!

[ClearCase_guy]

It's a joke. There is a nearby thread about Breibart and how the witness to his death has now gone missing. Couple that with with death of a coroner who may have examined Breibart's body -- people sense that anyone who knows too much about Breibart is in danger.

I made a gratuitous and silly leap to include Kinkade in that company, on no basis whatsoever.

[Revolting cat!]

I think he was framed!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Oh, OK.

[Revolting cat!]

Just as suspected. The night before his demise, Mr Kinkade was seen painting the town.

[hinckley buzzard]

Alcohol and benzos have assisted many a good man to his date with the Lord. Most likely accidental.

[cicero2k]

His BAC is not specified but must have been sky high.

As for his art, it may have been kitshy but it turned a buck.

[Randy Erickson]

I think he was framed!

LOL!!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I think he was framed!
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Stroke of bad luck. Soon to be glossed over.

[basil]

His paintings always reminded me of paint by numbers........

[Revolting cat!]

He had an earlier brush with death, didn’t he?

[goseminoles]

No. Perhaps he had a stroke.

[HerrBlucher]

I liked Kinkaids paintings a lot, I wish I had one.

RIP Thomas. You should have known better than to mix valium and booze.

[bboop]

‘painting the town’ — you are VERY bad.

[goat granny]

that plus a couple of sleepers and I am ready for bed....:O)

[Uncle Slayton]

Just another junkie making bad art.

[Vendome]

Hey, they did this by the numbers....

[Vendome]

He’s joking with you....

[bigbob]

Drugs and booze...painted himself into a corner there...

[Vendome]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOO MUCH!

[onyx]

You guys!
LOLOLOL.

[giotto]

His BAC is not specified but must have been sky high

The question is, did he drink because of the way his paintings look, or do his paintings look the way they do because he drank? Either way, it explains a lot.

[Cowboy Bob]

LOL!

[dennisw]

I liked his paintings too. He tried to show the light (and did) but all men are flawed. He had his demons but brought joy to many people via his paintings. His work is far preferable to the cold modernistic drek I see made by cool urbanites

His work has outdoors nature (that God made) worked into it

[Bellflower]

A sensitive man, broken by life. He was said to be very hurt by his divorce. Divorce is something that can ruin a sensitive person. Not everybody is tough, emotionally.

[sphinx]

Just another junkie making bad art.

Why "bad art?" I don't own any of his paintings and don't aspire to, but he was a talented illustrator who developed a style that sold. Nothing wrong with that. Norman Rockwell is the comparison that comes to mind.

I suppose that Kinkaide had at least three strikes against him in the eyes of the arts establishment. He painted "pretty" pictures. There is nothing transgressive or political in his art, unless nostalgia is deemed to be political. And he sold, which must raise the demons of envy among most of our "serious" artists, who are running a scam and must know it.

[Lady Lucky]

You’re just too blinded by common sense to see! :)

[a fool in paradise]

Remember kids, don't drink the turpentine.

[william clark]

Or, in this case, Benturpintine, evidently.