[brivette]

sorry but poker playing dogs on velvet just ain’t my taste..

[Martin Tell]

"the numbers of his painters ..."

I didn't know he used the paint-by-numbers method. That explains a lot.

[Proud2BeRight]

Too bad he is gone. He did really beautiful work that many of us really enjoy.

[MeganC]

Kinkade was an innovator, no doubt, but his art became kind of pedestrian with so much repetition. He also had problems with proportion and depth of field that prevented his art from transcending the line between kitschy greeting card art and ‘masterpiece’ art.

[DManA]

Nanette, with who he had four daughters,

Grammar Car 54 where are you?

[DManA]

Nanette, with who he had four daughters,

Grammar Car 54 where are you?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

My wife and I were at a furniture store a few months ago and I saw a painting I really liked. By the time we got home I forgot the name of the artist. I recognized that it must have been Kinkade. I just found a wallpaper of the painting I liked.

http://www.deskpapers.com/thomas-kinkade.html

[Uncle Miltie]

The Medical Examiner will have to wear sunglasses to avoid being blinded by the Thousand Points Of Light he’ll find.....

[PGalt]

Condolences to family and friends of Thomas Kinkade.

[hampdenkid]

Alcohol — “cunning, baffling, and powerful.” Having been granted a reprieve from that horrible addiction, my heart and prayers go out to anyone still under its deadly spell.

[Talisker]

I marvel at the many people who criticize his art. He made millions of people happy with decent paintings of comforting, civilized, peaceful scenes - what a crime, eh? That’s why so many can now sneer at him - the very people who, if forced to live by selling their own paintings, would be dead from starvation in a month.

RIP, Thomas - and congratualtions for escaping this snarling world.

[dainbramaged]

I don’t own any of his art, but it doesn’t offend me. In fact I prefer it over most of the modern “art” that we rubes aren’t expected to understand, like splatter drunk Jackson Pollock’s work which goes for millions.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

Let me guess....Saccharin overdose.

[maine-iac7]

Motel art =

There's a difference between a “painter/illustrator” and an “artist.”

Now Norman Rockwell referred to himself as an “illustrator”. However, when you stand before one of his canvases, you know he was an ARTIST. (And if you were ever fortunate enough to see one of fine art paintings, none of which I have ever seen in print, you realize he could hang along side the Old Masters in complete equality.

Kincade was a huckster. His colors jar the eye.