And then there is Kinkade's proclivity for "ritual territory marking," as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.
"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview."
This guy is a rip-off artist. His galleries used to sell his PRINTS for $800 a pop more than ten years ago, all the while schmoozing you about the "great resale market", and how they would act as resale agents if you ever wanted to sell...well, a few years later, we tried to do that with a couple of extras, but we were told that "there is no resale market for prints right now."
Big surprise (I should say here that it was THE EX, NOT ME, who insisted on making these purchases, dazzled as she was by his little Christian markings in each painting.
On one of his "introduction videos" that came with one painting, he showed off his "Classic car collection".
I knew right then and there that this guy was all talk, no walk.
His business practices have treaded a very fine line between unethical, and now, apparently, outright fraudulent, as that recent court decision found.....
Thread about arbitration decision:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1586364/posts
I love his paintings....I don't know the person, so can't comment. Wish I had half his talent.
Actually, he's a mormon rather than a Christian, isn't he? Of course, I guess the LA Slimes can't be expected to know the difference ...
>> the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure <<
So he took a wee on Poo? That's just wrong. :^D
He should return them.