Posted on 06/17/2010 9:26:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
California law enforcement officials say well-known Christian painter and artist Thomas Kinkade spent a night in jail last week after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
California Highway Patrol officials said Monday that Kinkade was pulled over outside Carmel and arrested by a CHP officer just after 10 p.m. Friday
Kinkade "displayed signs of impairment to the officer," California Highway Patrol spokesman Robert Lehman reported.
The 52-year-old painter and father of four was released Saturday morning after posting bail.
Requests for a statement from the Thomas Kinkade Co. were not immediately responded to, though The Associated Press reported Monday that the company said it was reviewing the allegations.
Touted on his website as the "Painter of Light" and “America's most collected living artist,” Kinkade is described as a "devout Christian" who “uses his gift as a vehicle to communicate and spread inherent life-affirming values.”
In April, Kinkade attended the reopening of the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C., for which he created a special 32-foot mural titled “The Cross.”
In addition to the mural, Kinkade’s company has also been reportedly working very closely with the Billy Graham Foundation on promotion and marketing for the library.
In the past, Kinkade has worked extensively with World Vision Charities and The Salvation Army, and has been the national spokesperson for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
He began publishing his work in 1984.
To induce vomiting.
For the only halfway-decent painting of his that I ever saw he was cribbing off one of the Hudson River School painters.
His assembly-line operation had him adding a few daubs of paint to these manufactured copies so they could be called “original” works.
Not that that makes him any worse than Andy Warhol, but still...
trying to remember the headlines from way, way back, when that guy tried to bomb Times Square
trying to remember if the headlines read
“Muslim bombing suspect so-and-so...”
Cue arrest with the background of deer and light snow on an 1800s house on a river bank.
You know what they say about doing business with someone who uses his religious piety as a selling point...
Hold onto your wallet.
Hee! Hee!
Someone with a little talent should take “Christmas at the Courthouse”, or “Carmel, Dolores Street and the Tuck Box Tea Room”, or perhaps “Hometown Evening” and paint him into it being cuffed.
HAHAHA!!! Good One, this guy is a #1 fraud!
He reportedly told the officers that he had consumed a great deal of water before driving, but God must have turned it into wine once it hit his bloodstream...
CAINO?
From Wiki:
“...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 a Disney site while saying “This one’s for you, Walt.”[26][27] Kinkade has denied some of the allegations, and accepted and apologized for others.[27]
In 2006 John Dandois, Media Arts Group executive, recounted a story that on one occasion (”about six years ago”) Kinkade became drunk at a Siegfried & Roy magic show in Las Vegas and began shouting “Codpiece! Codpiece!” at the performers. Eventually he was calmed by his mother.[26] Dandois also said of Kinkade, “Thom would be fine, he would be drinking, and then all of a sudden, you couldn’t tell where the boundary was, and then he became very incoherent, and he would start cussing and doing a lot of weird stuff.”[26] On 11 June 2010, Kinkade was arrested in Carmel, CA on suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol. [28]”
I loved this photoshop contest at somethingawful.
My favorite...sort of a pastiche of every Kinkade ever produced:
SeekAndFind; that third one isn’t half bad. Sort of impressionistic with overtones of late Winslow Homer.
SeekAndFind... No pun intended, where’s the deer? LOL!
Now Jackson Pollock, now THERE was a fraud.
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