[Always Learning]

Well, I don't claim to know much about art, but I'd rather pay $800 for one of his prints instead of $1.5 million for Frankenthaler's gum depository.

[Atlas Sneezed]

We entirely disagree. I'll take the abstract you posted, even paying a bit merely to stand before it, and you would have to PAY me for the shame and misery of living with a Kinkead.

There is more artistic talent under the bubblegum stain on that abstract than (excluding the ability to make money off suckers) in all the Kinkeads ever mass-produced.

[linda_22003]

And I wouldn't have a Kinkade as a gift. Isn't it nice that there is something for everyone to enjoy, out there?

[dangus]

O my gosh, THAT is the "gum depository"? When I first read the story, I wanted to smack the kid. Now I think he MIGHT just be a brilliant art critic. What a perfect commentary on that art!

[Tribune7]

I'm with you.

[3AngelaD]

I think Kincaid is kitsch, pure and simple. But I don't have a problem with people who enjoy him. Each to his own. People should be allowed to enjoy what ever pleases them, and not have to worry about what the critics think. Along those same lines, he is entitled to make as much money as his talent will allow. If people will pay it, then that is what his work is worth. That said, I love Helen Frankenthaler. Her paintings are curiously soothing, and can be very moving at times. The National Gallery owns several, as does the museum of modern art in Mexico City, and I think even the Reina Sofia in Madrid. I was outraged by gum boy. I would love to be able to get my paws on even one of Frankenthaler's prints, and perhaps I will sometime soon.