"This has turned into a full-scale Kincaide bash-fest"
What you're reading is the bubbling forth of the annoyance that some of us have felt for quite some time; and when those cloying ads appear on tv or in magazines for the "Painter of Light", we have to force ourselves to keep from gagging.
I'm with you on not being able to create paintings, I can't either, but then again, I don't just go ahead and create lousy ones and market them worldwide on the pretext that they honor Our Lord and it's okay to ask outrageous prices for them because they will one day appreciate in value, either.
If Kinkade had donated his liver to an Ethiopian, he would be dead and we wouldn't have to worry about his paintings anymore.
Thankfully, I lost my appetite for TV and magazines in 1992. Therefore, the energy I used to spend on preventing myself from gagging, or on pulling my guitar out of the television, I can now devote to more useful things...like posting on FR....