uhnnn...so, what, if he used black magic, it would've been OK?
I mean, wtf?
Now, having said that, I will say that the one or two times I wandered into one of those galleries I thought they were way over done, a little high on the snob-appeal, and really kinda weird.
It was better when he was just a painter. Who knows what sorta stuff his promoters did in his name, anyway.
The prices were too high. That's was the gallery problem. Beautiful work, sure. But they were prints, not originals.
Looks like he may have played the Christian angle to further his career.
He'd make a good Democrat politician.
I suspect the LA Times inserted the Christian part to emphasize the use of hate-speech tactics according to the experts in hate-speech at the LATimes. The paintings are indeed beautiful. I own a couple of replicas.
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He might shift from Painter of Light to Painter of $
Christ is not a commodity. Using Christianity to hawk one's wares is roughly akin to the money changers in the temple and we all know how that turned out.
Christians need to start focusing on Christ in our own lives and quit using him as a "social thing."
Kinkade is a one-trick pony.
So I guess Barnum is proved correct, yet again.
I realize there is a some kind of cult around Kinkade's paintings or prints or whatever, but I would sooner put a velvet Elvis on my wall than one of those creepy looking "luminescence scenes". I guess it takes all kinds.
What a bummer. Next, I'll find out that my "Dogs Playing Poker" painting is a forgery, and not a genuine Rembrandt.
good sign. I've been arguing for years that the unfettered production of kitsch should be a federal offense.
Now he can add "con" to artist.
Thomas Kinkade: The Kenny G of Paint.
His is some of the most boring "art" I've ever seen, and I work in a custom frame shop where I see alot of crappy art, along with the good stuff.
I read an article on Thomas Kinkade years ago. It stated that, as a child, his mother had to work. I forget if his father had left or died. Kinkade would come home to a dark house everyday after school. That's the reason he paints lights in the houses.