Good Night, Sweet Painter Of Light
Thomas Kinkade, the most prolific artist of this generation whose work was so coveted that most roadside motels had to nail it to the wall to keep people from stealing it, has walked toward the light he painted. Thomas Kinkade is now teaching a master class in art next to Bob Ross at the great big Learning Annex in heaven after he died of natural causes at the young age of 54 yesterday. A spokesperson for the Kinkade family tells the Associated Press that Thomas passed away at his home in Los Gatos, CA.
The self-described "warrior of light" is the most collected artist in the US and it's been reported that 1 in 20 American homes has one of his cottage paintings hanging on its walls. It's true. If you walked into any memaw's home right now you'd find her crying pastel oil tears into a Kinkade handkerchief in between taking sips of orange tea from a Kinkade mug sitting on a Kinkade placemat. I mean, you really haven't seen art world drama until you've seen two 75-year-olds fight over a Kinkade painting at the swap meet.
Thomas Kinkade was in the news two Decembers ago after he was busted for DUI. The Los Angeles Times also reported a while ago that Thomas Kinkade once drunkenly pissed on a Winnie the Pooh statue at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. Dude was the painter of light AND the bad boy of the art world.
Rest in peace, Thomas. Your legacy will forever live on in this masterpiece Christmas movie starring Jensen Ackles the ho from Supernatural:
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Kincade was a hack. His Paintings were over-priced and mass produced by factories, not painted.
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I had to post it:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/paintings-light-part.p...
Fuck that guy.
Go to Google images and type in Thomas Kinkade DUI. You'll see a great TK painting.
Art is in the eye of the beer-holder.
Not a fan of his type of art but I admire anyone in the art world who gets their stuff noticed. ALL artists should be able to make a living off what they love to do but the ones who do... kudos.
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Submitted by tonicbitch on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 12:13am.
Why do people always equate selling well with quality? One has nothing to do with the other.
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Capitalist conditioning to see everything only in terms of "market value", while ignoring the fact that markets are completely manipulated.
Kinkade ripped off his own galleries and was part of a rip-off housing project which was supposed to look like his paintings, but turned out to be anything but. He made a lot of money by selling out and whoring out his so-called religion to cheat people.
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Judging art is stupid. What speaks to you might not even catch another person's eye for a second. Kinkade doesn't do shit for me. I like Art that makes me think. And the biggest joke Is Angela raging about art, while she is stuck in her pink 80's interior design bubble. Guess that artistic gene skipped a generation.
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Submitted by precociousmagpie on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 1:09pm.
I don't know how anybody can argue that Thomas Kinkade's paintings were not art--the man is wearing a BERET, FFS.
LOL. Perhaps he had dual French citizenship?
I liked most of the comments here (not so much the angry ones) on what is good art. Maybe that's what Kinkade will be remembered for: he was a litmus test?
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I'm really loving all this art drama. The conversations are so energized. Although, I will chime in that it's annoying when people say they are experts on something and you should keep your mouth shut because you're not. Many "experts" have rejected CORRECT theories because according to their expertise the new theory didn't make sense. And that's with somewhat more straightforward subjects like physics and math. Here we're talking about art. It's SO much more subjective. Yes there's technique but whether something truly solicits emotion or not is quite a matter of opinion. Some people will easily consider one painting "garbage" while others will think it's "genius". Having more background on the subject is great, but it doesn't mean the naive person is wrong, just a different opinion. We remember opinions, right? Something that isn't a fact (regardless of whether it comes from an expert), just a personal assessment.
My personal experience with Kinkade:
I was in a waiting room and two old people were wondering about the print on the wall, but they couldn't see well enough to be certain it was by Kinkade. I confirmed for the lady that it was. Then the old man and old woman--"best friends"--started talking to me about this and that. They were very friendly, and even congenially asked me about my lip ring without even a tinge of disgust or judgement. That's a pleasant surprise, and seemed like a good indication of their character. And yes it really has nothing at all to do with this guy's vanilla paintings, but it just started our conversation. Unfortunately, the man was getting tested to see if he had a staph infection in his bones (I think?), so I hope they're both still doing ok.
Sad he died so young - but....I never liked his "art."
I'll take piss christ over his schlock any day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
peed on pooh?? what a piglet
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Jared is cute!
(Is Jared a homosexual?)
How is this art? It' s so kitschy I am going to diiie!
Don't know much about him except he sold incredibly well! To me, his works are pleasant enough Disney stuff that I am glad I did not have to endure on a daily basis, condolences to those who did. ACK, he sounds quite the con artist and douche!
And still, I can no more argue with those who call him an artist and appreciate his work, than I can with those who dislike it and consider it crap. Art is subjective and as such, neither side is wrong...
MK, that movie looks HORRENDOUS! hehehe *ducks fast* ;)
Let me ask you something, what is not art? ~ Author Unknown *chuckles*
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Kinkade sounded like a cool dude:
The Los Angeles Times has reported that some of Kinkade's former colleagues, employees, and even collectors of his work say that he has a long history of cursing and heckling other artists and performers. The Times further reported that he openly groped a woman's breasts at a South Bend, Indiana sales event, and mentioned his proclivity for ritual territory marking through urination, once relieving himself on a Winnie the Pooh figure at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim while saying "This one's for you, Walt."[
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Bob Ross had an amazing spirit. I don't care if his work was considered real art or not, he gave joy to a lot of people and that's enough for me.
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Submitted by Mel-Tang on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 1:06am.
Not only was Bob Ross an amazing artist, but he had the uncanny ability to lull me off into the best naps ever. Better than Ambien. <3
I think a lot of people end up napping while watching his show. Pretty sure Matt Lauer once mentioned the Bob Ross coma.
Not only was Bob Ross an amazing artist, but he had the uncanny ability to lull me off into the best naps ever. Better than Ambien. <3
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I still prefer Bob Ross and his happy little trees. So relaxing to watch old episodes of The Joy of Painting.
Submitted by literarylioness on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 11:46pm.
Michelangelo was a genius, but preferred sculpting. Raphael (my fave) was a pure painter. One of my favorite paintings is The School of Athens, in the pope's library, in the Vatican. Raphael even painted himself into that one.
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The Raphael room is one of the finest spots in the Vatican. I agree that Michelangelo excelled at sculpting and it was an obvious passion of his.
I'm sorry, but the guy was a hack. I always cringed when passing one of his stores(shoppes) at the mall and all these stupid people would be lining up to buy his shit. Just because he sold a ton of it, it doesn't make it art or even good.
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Submitted by Dr. Ruth on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 6:58pm.
His art moved enough people to sell it and yet people will denigrate it as if it doesn't count.
Monet was a genius.
Picasso was fucking crap. His stupid shit makes me laugh out loud. So gross. Not 'feeling' or 'emotional'...just retarded writ large.
Sorry, never saw a Picasso that I liked. Just junk food for the artistic soul.
Michaelangelo was pure genius. INCREDIBLE. Oh, and you could actually tell what the fuck he was PAINTING when he painted something. Fancy that!
Vincent van Gogh? YES. Tears in paint to form realistic visions of pain, agony, desire and hunger.
As someone who grew up in an artistic family, I really can't fathom the love for splatters of paint on large canvases, where idiot fuckwits describe the 'emotion' and the 'temperament' involved in said fucking splatters.
You art tards need to fucking be slapped upside the head with a bucket of toxic lead paint and call it 'art'. "I die for art".
Dumbasses.
This guy was a miserable drunk. Many 'artists' are miserable drunks or drug addicts. So are many famous writers.
You denigrate something you could NEVER achieve if you tried.
Fucking pathetic.
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Ah, I was stumbling about, looking for something entertaining, and you deliver this delicious bomb, Angela. Who needs Clement Greenberg when we have you! Thank you for this, Angela. I will have so much fun with my friends over this.
Bjork You xoxo
Why do people always equate selling well with quality? One has nothing to do with the other. Look at Twilight, Kesha, Katy Perry, etc. Yes Kinkade could make realistic looking cottages, but his stuff is so generic. Go to any local art show and you'll see 10,000 paintings by local artists that look the same.
hilarious, who knew we had art history educated bitches on this blog???
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Thanks MK I am going to rent this movie when the holidays come round and make some hot chocolate and remember good times watching Murder She Wrote with my own memaw. A woman of refined tastes (Instant Sanka) who only had eyes for Renoir and the Pope.) She had his plates and framed prints all over the place, probably bought the plates from an ad in Reader's Digest.
Submitted by EveryStrangersEyes on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 2:07pm.
yeah, yeah... condolences, and all that, but.. if we're not talking Salvador Dalí i'm just not all that interested.
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I love/i> Salvador Dali! There is a great painting at the Legion of Honor by Dali. It's actually a portrait done of the Spreckles (sugar fortune) heirs. It is just too cool!
I like Munro too.
Submitted by SalmaNella on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 7:40pm.
Michelangelo was a genius. I've been fortunate enough to see many of his sculptures and paintings (including the Sistine Chapel) twice. IMO, there is no other artist alive or dead who can match what that man accomplished in his life. There is simply NO comparison to Kinkade.
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Michelangelo was a genius, but preferred sculpting. Raphael (my fave) was a pure painter. One of my favorite paintings is The School of Athens, in the pope's library, in the Vatican. Raphael even painted himself into that one.
While I think that art, music, and film are generally too subjective to be judged good or bad, that stuff is awful. :) But if you want to hang awful art in your kitchen, please do: it's still a marginally free country.
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Submitted by Poopele on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 10:59pm.
I don't know much about art, but Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Gogh is a classic.
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OT: I'm thanking the gods that I've never seen this utter crap (my opinion) art before. Now, I have to figure out how to remove it from my memory.
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Didn't Law & Order (the original) do a thinly veiled episode on Kincaid? About the painter killing his business advisor? Anyhoo, Kincade was a class A con artist. There are loads of info on him conning people.
I've seen better paintings from art students. Why not go to the local artist open house in your area and buy a few originals? They will be cheaper than this shit and better.
Support your local artists!
Here here!
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The guy was a prick and a charlatan. Seriously, he and his minions struck me as predatory and snobbish. Selling incredibly overpriced pieces and outsourcing to China with his ridiculously overinflated ego. I don't care if people enjoy his product, it is the holier then thou attitude surrounding the whole concept that completely repels me.
Ok totally OT- why do grown adults type baby talk like they are stuck in Cat Meme Land? Serious question.
"This better be important Jack, I was bidding on a bag of bras on ebay."
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oh, but kiki - i can debate you about any monet painting you'd like, and his life, and michelangelo's too, if you'd like.
in a timed contest, so no looking for the answers on the internet. or an art history book....
you game?
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DEB - i was also harsh. probably cause i have been defending myself for loving his art for so long. and today i have had to go at it double time.
happy to agree to disagree, and call a truce. and edit my mean comment, too.
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Michelangelo was a genius.
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Wow what a bold cutting-edge opinion. Let me try. Michael Jordan was good at basketball. Or, as they call it in the hood...hoops.
I don't know much about art, but Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Gogh is a classic.
Dog, I lifted this image when I was doing some research for an Elizabethan costume I was working on. Sadly most of the information was lost when my laptop died on me a few weeks back. Its from a painting and from what my pea brain can recall it was not that nutjob Bathory.
The only artist that Thomas Kinkaid was, is a con artist. He was an alcoholic who exploited Christian sentimentality, so for that, may he RIP.
In 2010, his production arm, Pacific Metro of Morgan Hill, Calif., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a day after a $1 million payment was due to former Kinkade gallery owners who won a judgment after claiming Kinkade used his Christian faith as a tool to fraudulently induce them to invest in his galleries, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time. From 1997 through May 2005, as galleries failed, Kinkade reaped more than $50 million from his prints and licensed product lines, according to testimony in the case cited by the Times.
In 2006, the Times reported that former Kinkade dealers told the newspaper that the FBI was looking into allegations that Kinkade and his top executives fraudulently induced investors to open galleries and then ruined them financially. The company, in a Sept. 1, 2006, statement called the allegations a "smear campaign."
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Now I know what to get Deb for Christmas!
Law of the universe: Art, music, literature and film critics are cynical douchebags with unwarranted self-importance. If it makes you happy and you like it, it's all good. Tell the whiney-ass critics they can suck a big donkey dick for trying to kill your buzz.
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I'm an art dummy. But, I can count to ten. So I like Jasper Johns.
He was the Kim Kardashian of the art world.
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Deb, like so many of them, he was a sad soul.
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Dog, that doesn't completely surprise me, considering Munch's dark style.
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Submitted by Deb on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 9:11pm.
Whoa, Dog. I did not know that. Are you pulling my leg?
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Nope. If memory serves me correctly, he didn't think they were any good, but that could be a false memory. He did hang them in the woods, however.
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Whoa, Dog. I did not know that. Are you pulling my leg?
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Submitted by Deb on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 9:06pm.
Edvard Munch hung half of his paintings in the woods where they rotted.
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