I wasn’t mocking the man I was mocking his art. If he was alive he would be free to mock mine.
Yes, he’s dead now. He died from an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription pain meds.
In the mid 90’s I had the displeasure of briefly speaking to him several times while I worked for a law firm that handled some of his estate planning. I can tell you that from my personal experience, he was not a “nice” man.
While Kincaid had some artistic talent, in reality he wasn’t any more or less talented than a lot of other artists who toil anonymously for greeting card companies and such, more good illustrators than what I would call great artist. In some cases not any better than what you might buy at one of those “starving artists” sales or from a company like this for a heck of a lot less:
http://globalwholesaleart.com/
Kincaid’s real talent IMO was in marketing himself. And what many people do not know was that lot of his later works, the stuff sold in his galleries during the height of his popularity were not even painted by him but by “artists” trained to emulate his style and technique or who splashed a few bits of paint to pop the light on the mass produced prints and thusly justifying charging the gullible thousands of dollars for them.
I agree with kabumpo - “Kitsch”. But hey, if you like it, more power to you. Just don't delude yourself that they are great works of art, that their value will increase over time over what you paid for them.