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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Kincades paintings are sickly sweet, sentimental, formulaic and boring, but if you like yours, that’s fine. He has scammed the public and most artist I know are honest people and they don’t like that.
How sad.
Did Pollack ever urinate on Winnie the Pooh?
In the first he and his company were accused of using God and Christianity as sales tools to entice legitimate Christians to contract with them. It might sound funny but the case was decided against him and he was forced to pay millions in damages.
In the second action he was sued by franchisees who were promised that the company would not saturate the market and under-cut the paintings. The company reneged on these contracted agreements and dumped thousands of paintings into the market place at prices well below those at which the franchisees had to charge. Kincade lost that one top.
IOW....just one more scam artist hiding behind the Bible and the Lord. And 99% of his paintings suck, unless motel art is your thing.
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A lot of crooks do.
See what you can find by Victor Bassi.
I also hate that silly modern “art”.
BTW - if anyone is interested in a great artist, they should check out Robert Tino. He’s an East TN artist that paints a lot of Smoky Mountain landscapes; my wife and I have several of his prints. We met Robert and his wife years ago at his gallery in Sevierville, and they are so nice. His work is beautiful and realistic.
http://robertatinogallery.com/
I have never been a fan of Kinkade. I think it is because his work seems too manufactured. I see ‘what sells’ instead of a work of passion.
But that’s just me.
A pity. Such a talented little girl, easily doing what adults pay millions for, and you refuse to do more than stick it to the fridge door for a couple days, belittling it as “childish”. Poor kid, life could be so easy for her...
I don’t know. I’ve observed that also.
Well that can be a first action on their part. Its usually rather short lived for most though.
I have no knowledge that Mr. Kinkade is a "crook." So, its not my choice of descriptor for him. Business affairs can get complicated and it does appear that there is another actor, a lawyer, who is involved in the court case with the gallery owners, that may have an impact on the case.
I simply don't have enough factual knowledge to call Mr. Kinkade a "crook."
Thats not to say that you can't do so. Just that I'm not going to do so.
I know, I am such a cruel parent. Instead of trying to make inflate my daughter's self-esteem by filling her head with empty nonsense about how wonderfully excellent her everyday instinctive actions are, I prefer that she develops a more refined form of art instead.
I'd laugh too if some parent tried to sell this sort of thing.
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The multiple, multi-million dollar judgments against him for his business practices were my first clue.
I despise scammers. I particularly despise scammers who use religion as a tool of their trade.
They (and kincade) are no different than the junkie mother who uses her kids as a prop to panhandle.
For someone who has trademarked the term “painter of light,” he has no understanding of what real light looks like. The “light” in his paintings resembles nothing like actual sunlight. You look at any number of artists and illustrators, from Edward Hopper to N.C. Wyeth, and you instantly recognize what actual sunlight looks like. In Kinkade’s light you instantly recognize Burnt Ochre and Cadmium Yellow Number Two.
http://www.byerleyart.com/paintings/view_all.html Here’s another one you may enjoy. Bob Byerley is Number one on my list, although I can never afford to own an original.
Will they revoke his artistic license?
Not my style but very inventive. Cartoon art?
See post 4.
There's a word for this kind of stuff--schlock.
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