[CAluvdubya]

I have a couple of his paintings and I didn't buy them for any reason other than I like looking at them. They are feel good, tranquil paintings that cause me to slow down and admire them for a bit during a busy day.

Critics be damned!

[Tax-chick]

They are feel good, tranquil paintings that cause me to slow down and admire them for a bit during a busy day.

We have a photograph of a waterfall and a local watercolor of a lake scene for the same purpose. "Don't bother me ... I'm at the waterfall!"

[Finny]

They are feel good, tranquil paintings that cause me to slow down ...

I LOVE YOUR POST!! You are a SMART person when it comes to art. The art you buy will be valued a HELL OF A LOT MORE 100 years from now than probably a lot of the "art" as defined by snooty critics of Kinkade.

And another thing: your art is HEALTHY art. Studies have shown that abstract "modern" art where the canvas depicts nothing recognizable to the brain, is BAD for healing, and people in hospitals heal much better with things like landscapes. It's why you don't see a bunch of abstract art in the latest, greatest cancer-curing hospitals.

I repeat: you are a SMART art consumer.

[A Navy Vet]

"They are feel good, tranquil paintings that cause me to slow down and admire them for a bit during a busy day."

Exactly. They were never meant to cause thought or discussion or hysterical art rhetoric. He painted serenity. Not such a bad purpose in my book, but then I'm not avant garde. Hell, I still like looking at the Mona Lisa.