By Arnie Sloffman (Photographer of Filth)
Sorry for his passing.
His “art” was vapid and sophomoric.
He knew the market
Perhaps it was. However, since he as an artist created works that I enjoy looking at, he was by definition a successful one. And his art, succeeded in touching something in another person. Love it or hate it, it is indeed art.
” He read classic books but also enjoyed shooting and blowing up things on his ranch.”
Couldn’t be all bad with those hobbies!
You sure sound like a liberal when you say that.
What an arrogant and nasty comment. Shame on you, but these words are wasted. You are so full of yourself.
His "vapid and sophomoric" art is loved by many people, not for being deemed worthy by people such as you, but for its simple goodness. It is soothing to the soul in a way that other art isn't. It's not magnificent like a Renoir or Klee or Rembrandt but instead is what I liken to an innocent child.
RIP, Thomas Kinkade.
>>His “art” was vapid and sophomoric.<<
I see you know as much about art as you do taxation and economics.
You really should go back to DU/KOS and not spew your filth and hate here.
I could maybe see such a comment for an obvious enemy, but really? The guy employed a lot of people up and down the line, and contributed to the economy, and a lot of people enjoyed what he made.
Or is there some other reason you just had to slip that in? Maybe you don’t like people who discuss their work in the context of their faith?
Watch it, pal! He was a Rembrandt and Beethoven to the local flea market art con-a-sewers!
Add to that inept. Just look at the light and shadows and the wind direction in these “art works”. As to being a good capitalist, just ask the broke owners of the galleries that sold his “paintings” and nothing else, which were really prints with dashes of paint thrown on them by the slave workers in his factory.
Thanks, I’d rather buy an original of an velvet Elvis.
Which he could easily sell without a National Endowment sugar daddy with a gun pointed at the taxpayer.
You'd be off to a good start at an 02138 cocktail party, probably with Granny Warren in attendance.
Drango, you have the best tagline I’ve ever seen. Did you think it up yourself?
By Arnie Sloffman (Photographer of Filth)
Where might one view your works of art?
Don't even go there, Chuckles. You really have me jerked off at the moment.
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
Norman Rockwell he was not.
Reusability counts. In paintings as well as software.
what do you think of Al Hogue?
“Sorry for his passing.
His “art” was vapid and sophomoric.”
It was not to my tastes, but aesthetics are personal. I certainly admire his dedication and joy in his vocation, and am sorry he passed so soon. He brought a lot of joy to a lot of people.
I agree, but I perceive you're not making many friends here by pointing that out.
Kinkade, by the way, affords us a salutary lesson in how to jerk the chains of the hoi polloi. You simply find out what it is they cleave to, and give it a voice. Rush Limbaugh does it magnificently. His critics think that it's the people who are following his lead, but in actuality it's the other way around. His brilliance lies in being a master of articulating what the average person can only feel.