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To: AnAmericanMother
Excuse me ... since when does "reality" have ANYTHING to do with painting or the perceptions of the artist.

You don't like Kincaid's work - I would suggest it's because he's a Christian, and not because you think his art is unrealistic.

83 posted on 10/19/2002 4:52:18 PM PDT by CyberAnt
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To: CyberAnt
Oh, come on, get real! What a leap from an analysis of obvious defects of lighting and perspective, to a conclusion that I don't like Christians!

Asher Durand painted some amazing and dramatic Christian allegorical pictures, so did Thomas Cole. I like them both. They handle light, structure, and perspective extremely well. Kinkade doesn't, and that would still be true were he Jewish, Muslim, or heathen Chinee.

Calling oneself a "Christian artist" is not an excuse for bad technique. Religion, doctrine, or imagination has nothing to do with messing up perspective or painting a scene as though there are three suns in the sky (unless I suppose you were illustrating a science fiction story.)

(BTW, I'm an unreconstructed 1928 Prayer Book Anglo-Catholic, married to a Methodist preacher's grandson. So much for your off the cuff conclusion.)

86 posted on 10/19/2002 5:22:26 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother
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To: CyberAnt
You don't like Kincaid's work - I would suggest it's because he's a Christian, and not because you think his art is unrealistic.

Actually, Kincaid is a Mormon, a faith that offers a convincing superficial simulcrum of Christianity spread as a gloss over a heart of bizarre and unreal cultic mind-warp.

102 posted on 10/21/2002 5:17:44 AM PDT by TomSmedley
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