Posted on 06/15/2010 2:13:18 AM PDT by plinyelder
The painter of light is having a dark period.
Thomas Kinkade, the Placerville native who became one of the world's wealthiest artists with his sentimental landscapes and Christian motifs, has had a string of legal troubles.
His company owes millions of dollars to art gallery owners who successfully pressed fraud claims.
Earlier this month the firm filed for bankruptcy protection from those gallery owners and hundreds of other creditors.
And on Friday, the 52-year-old Kinkade, who calls himself "the painter of light," was arrested on a DUI charge outside Carmel, where he owns a home.
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It’s cloying, it’s sentimental, it’s idealized, it’s even tacky and can be found on the walls of the finest ‘modular’ homes but God help me I can’t say I don’t have some appreciation for his work.
Norman Rockwell had similar criticism in his time. Mind you I’m not comparing Rockwell to Kinkade.
But does he sell a Kincaid snuggie?
You are sooooooooooo bad! LOL!
I’m waiting for Thomas Kinkade fuzzy socks.
My brother once made the classic comment “anyone could do that” regarding Pollock.
Then it occurred to him to try.
Turns out its much harder than it looks.
Same with me -- I've got this print on my bathroom wall:
When I had it refurbished, I used tile that looks like the road in this one, my towels are pine green, they exactly match his art. I use furniture instead of traditional bathroom cabinets and best of all, the light fixture is a carriage lamp, the ones the home stores sell for outside the front door entryway -- the bath re-do came out charming.
Jackson Pollack was a fair to middling artist, as evidenced in his earlier topographic work. He said absolutely nothing except to himself. But he goes to show the power of the wordpress on the pseudo-intellectual phonies of the urban world. Kind of like Barack Obama.
His work is idealized, but I’m sort of idealistic myself. However, I never got past the statement in the article that he was DUI. I have zero sympathy for that. My dad died a few months ago from injuries related to a drunk driving accident. To guys like Kincaid, I say be my guest and drink yourself into a stupor—but don’t turn your car into a potential lethal weapon.
Then it occurred to him to try.
Turns out its much harder than it looks.
My daughter is 19 months old and she can doodle the same sort of thing with crayons and magic markers.
BFL
Maybe because he paints nice pictures that people like rather than more “cerebral” crap that doesn’t really look like anything?
I don't "hate" him or them; it doesn't rise to that level.
I simply don't buy his paintings or frequent his galleries.
Then start selling them. Pollocks go for millions - with reason.
I am supposed to be impressed with people who spend lots of money on things like that?
If you think her work is that good, you are supposed to be impressed with making an easy fortune in short order. If someone is willing to pay millions for such work, do not deprive your daughter of such rewards for exercising her natural talents.
...or is there something missing in this equation of “childish scribble = multi million dollar painting”?
The fact that some people are willing to part with that kind of cash for childish scribble doesn't change the fact that it is still childish scribble. If people want to part with their money, that's their free choice.
I am just not going to be impressed with adults drawing childish scribble, no matter how much it is going for on the open market.
Technically very proficient, and the first time you see it there's something new and fresh about his work.... but very quickly it becomes boring and formulaic.
He's sorta like the Kenny G of the painting world.
People who pass themselves off as “Christians” while cynically exploiting people based on the belief that they are Christians, occupy a special place in Hell.
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