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Dark clouds gather over 'Painter of Light' [Kinkade accused of drunken antics]
The Guardian (UK) ^
| March 25, 2006
| by Oliver Burkeman in New York
Posted on 03/24/2006 6:35:10 PM PST by aculeus
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To: RetiredSWO
To: Billthedrill
Tears of a clown
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:52:45 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: stands2reason
oh, now I love his art. I wouldn't invest in it But I like it...My perfect hometown (in my mind) looks alot like his work:) I find it soothing and wholesome to look at but again, I wouldn't pay the prices that he asks and I certainly wouldn't hang it all over my house. tacky.
To: aculeus
...Kinkade's unpredictable behaviour: bringing disorder to a Las Vegas performance by the illusionists Siegfried and Roy by repeatedly yelling the word "codpiece" from his audience seat, and urinating in public - in an elevator and on a model of Winnie the Pooh at a Disneyland hotel. "This one's for you, Walt," Mr Sheppard claimed the artist said as he did so. Hmm...well, I'm sure he did some bad things too...
To: aculeus
To: itsamelman
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:59:05 PM PST
by
Tribune7
To: bkepley
I love Kinkade - there's nothing wrong with schlock that's pretty.
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:59:22 PM PST
by
i.l.e.
(Tagline - this space for sale....)
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:59:53 PM PST
by
Cecily
To: Cicero
But the painting does look sort of familiar from somewhere or other: Maybe you've eaten from it at a high class restaurant?
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:59:54 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: keithtoo
I'm still trying ti figure out the lamp post.
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posted on
03/24/2006 7:00:51 PM PST
by
Tribune7
To: Cecily
Obey the little boy and his creepy dog!!
31
posted on
03/24/2006 7:01:41 PM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: Tribune7
I'm still trying ti figure out the lamp post.It's technical.
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posted on
03/24/2006 7:02:25 PM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: Tribune7; keithtoo
And it's an Undead Snowman.
The light on the snow in front of it is supposed to be coming from the window, but it isn't casting a shadow.
. . . run for your lives!
. . . seriously, this stuff isn't even GOOD kitsch.
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posted on
03/24/2006 7:03:43 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: keithtoo
That's hysterical! When he first came out, I liked him. I liked how his pictures had symbolism in them. He always had light to represent Jesus as the light of the world, he had the fish and John 3:16 at the bottom of all of his pictures, and his wife's initial was in every painting but you had to look for it.
Then something happened.... his stuff was everywhere. I've been in homes where all the art is his stuff - it all looks alike after awhile. Worse, he got really commercial - calendars, mugs, t-shirts. No self-respecting artist would do that (IMHO).
I understand wanting to make money, but that's ridiculous.
To: Cicero
I can still see the numbers.
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posted on
03/24/2006 7:04:11 PM PST
by
Crawdad
(So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
To: itsamelman
My two dogs like this one.
To: Tribune7
He started putting the lamposts in a couple of years ago, when the buzz about "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" started. There's a lamppost which figures prominently in the story.
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posted on
03/24/2006 7:04:46 PM PST
by
Miss Marple
(Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
To: Revolting cat!
To: annelizly
It is funny, but I have the same comment (it looks like my perfect hometown in my mind's eye) about another artist...Charles Wysocki. His stuff is sort of folk arty, and his pictures have alot of layers (cats on a window sill, milk bottles at a front door) in the busy vignettes.
Kinkade's 'painting of light' has always looked kind of 'glowy' to me and it just never caught my eye...that and I once stopped into one of his mall shops and was partically assailed to sign the guest book.
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posted on
03/24/2006 7:06:15 PM PST
by
PennsylvaniaMom
(Take the high road...the view is always better.)
To: Miss Marple
OK, but what's it doing on the other side of the creek? I mean what did they do put a conduit beneath the creek for the wires? What's it's supposed to be lighting? I just don't get it.
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posted on
03/24/2006 7:07:03 PM PST
by
Tribune7
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