Well, I guess we are tacky then as my wife and I own 2 of them one an actual painting and the other a reprint. I painting is in the living room and the first thing you see when guests arrive. We have the dimmer light aimed on it and the ohhs and ahhs that we get from people have made my wife happy. And if she's happy I'm happy.
I hate to burst your bubble, but what you have is "giclee", not an actual painting. It's a printing process that recreates the brush strokes with a thick ink in runs of anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000. The large runs are broken up into "limited editions" of various prices, but all are off of the same print run. The best you can hope for is one that has had highlights added by an art student in the Kinkade Highlight Sweatshop.
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sleddogs,
You aren't tacky, you just know what you like and aren't afraid to say so. Who's to say what you should hang on your wall? Do you think you need the approval of the NYT art critics? (NO! Just the approval of your wife.) If I wanted a Kinkade or a Velvet Elvis or whatever on my wall, I'd get one and hang it and enjoy it.
Actually, I'm not too fond of Velvet paintings at this point in my life, but I when I was little I used to like to see them wherever it was they were being sold. Tourist traps?
I do kind of like the Kinkades, though. I don't know if I like them enough to hang one in my house, but I wouldn't rule it out. I think I just like other things better.
My "tacky" confession: Sometimes I put ketchup on my steak!