Posted on 04/06/2012 8:34:22 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Thomas Kinkade, the "Painter of Light" and one of most popular artists in America, died suddenly Friday at his Los Gatos home. He was 54.
His family said in a statement that his death appeared to be from natural causes.
"Thom provided a wonderful life for his family,'' his wife, Nanette, said in a statement. "We are shocked and saddened by his death.''
His paintings are hanging in an estimated 1 of every 20 homes in the United States. Fans cite the warm, familiar feeling of his mass-produced works of art, while it has become fashionable for art critics to dismiss his pieces as tacky. In any event, his prints of idyllic cottages and bucolic garden gates helped establish a brand -- famed for their painted high lights -- not commonly seen in the art world.
"I'm a warrior for light," Kinkade told the Mercury News in 2002, alluding not just to his technical skill at creating light on canvas but to the medieval practice of using light to symbolize the divine. "With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel."
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You are welcome. I am an art lover.
That sounds about right. I still have a couple of niggling questions. To be honest, I’ll have to wait [to articulate them] until I’m not so stressed for time. I also need to read your comments through once more and think about it a little further. Maybe tomorrow...or Monday.
Anyway, thanks for the input. It gave me a good basis on which to consider the issue, and I appreciate it.
From Wikipedia? Then it MUST be all true! ;o)
By “Modern art” I mean artists like Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollack and others from some decades ago...
It’s not really a narrow subset, I just don’t know the names of the “artists” who supply crap nowadays.
I also stated that there is a lot of excellent artwork being created now but because it is not offensive, degraded and hatefully hideous it doesn’t get grants and articles about it in the NYT.
I think I’ve made myself perfectly clear.
Very nice colors in his work. I don’t agree with that comment in post 2.
RIP.
Too bad you couldn’t buy a painting cause the value of all of them just went up a whole lot.
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