Defend the indefensible - Thomas Kinkade

that's a good point esp re. mcmansions etc.

wtf at people who believe this shit

Confirmation bias. Remember, dude's work was aimed explicitly at people who feel alienated and victimized by modernity. Buying his shite was striking back at all those elitists who are probably thinking horrible thoughts about you right now etc.

Dude died on Friday? I'd say maybe he was in the presence of divinity for a split second after death (the Clear Light) but given his karmic issues he had while alive, he was probably zooming through various hells of the sidpa bardo on Easter.

anyway there's that benjamin essay art in the age of mechanical reproduction which I don't remember anything about, there are all those 'artists' cities in china where you can pay somebody like $50 to paint anything you want including a van gogh, it's pretty interesting, would post more about if I had a more coherent theory of art

Also olds with questionable taste.

Backgrounds from Fire & Ice:

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/thefw.com/files/2012/04/thomas-kinkade-fire-and-ice.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8zJJcFRu-O8/ToRtYi2zs5I/AAAAAAAAJtI/n-K3nX_F3GU/s1600/Fire%2526IceNekron.sm.jpg
http://www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/283.jpg

Oops, that middle one is Gurney, the other background painter for the film.

I think this is Kinkade:

http://www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/286.jpg

anyway there's that benjamin essay art in the age of mechanical reproduction which I don't remember anything about, there are all those 'artists' cities in china where you can pay somebody like $50 to paint anything you want including a van gogh, it's pretty interesting, would post more about if I had a more coherent theory of art

― swaghand (dayo), Monday, April 9, 2012 11:43 PM (2 days ago)

im p sure i read abt some artbros paying these guys to do ersatz miros and ingreses and then the westerners added magic touches of their own, kinda like kinkade via chapmans

tho i might have imagined this

i would hope that altbros would pay them do pictures of altbros fucking centaurs

if by hope u mean sadly imagine then u will probably be correct before long

yeah, same thing

I wonder who the last universally famed person I never heard of before this guy was?

in 2001, Thomas Kinkade bet Susan Orlean a million dollars that a major museum would hold a Thomas Kinkade retrospective in his lifetime. look on my works ye mighty and etc.

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, April 9, 2012 4:58 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's pretty smart to bet someone that you can do something in your lifetime, because if you fail, how are they going to collect?

i thought susan orlean was the PBS money saving guru at first and was trying to figure out how she came to have a rivalry with kinkade.

like maybe she told her viewers, "a good way to invest your money... is NOT in thomas kinkade paintings ha ha ha, suck it, kinkade!"

ha!

I don't think any personal finance guru would recommend collectors items as a main investment.

are you saying my tv after 10 pm isn't a personal finance guru

is there good writing on kinkade that isn't hand-wringy and terrible like 100% of this thread?

ok maybe 97%

are you saying my tv after 10 pm isn't a personal finance guru

Bradford Exchange y New York Stock Exchange: the names are strikingly similar....

Ha I just looked up the Bradford Exchange site and it is cashing in on the news

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg43/scaled.php?server=43&filename=screenshot20120411at725.png&res=landing

Thomas Kinkade Stained Glass-Style Illuminated Faith Cross
Thomas Kinkade Faith Cross

First-ever Thomas Kinkade tabletop stained glass-style illuminated cross with inspiring chapel artwork and Scripture words. Wooden base, name plaque.

Measures 5" W x 9" H

that photo is lol, it looks like he's going to do that dizzy gillespie thing where he inflates his cheeks

someone photoshop (or actually make?) a thomas kinkade faith piss cross please

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ

I accept the TSA making me separate the few little liquids I need to take in my carry-on luggage by putting them in a little baggie etc. It's kinda dumb but whatever.

I'm really just annoyed at having to go out and buy QUART-sized ziplocks especially for my trip. I have gallons, I have sandwich-sized. I don't really WANT a box of quart-sized ziplocks.

huh

quart-sized are good for your smaller hams

oh fuck I totally posted this on the wrong board

welp there's a first time for everything

*dies*

*thread

heh, quart sized ziplocks for your kinkades

I guess it's vaguely piss-christ related

be sure to double bag it

is there good writing on kinkade that isn't hand-wringy and terrible like 100% of this thread?

― Fook Lee (Matt P), Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:11 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OZIiVvxIuBEC&pg=PA215&dq=the+artist+in+the+mall&hl=en&sa=X&ei=446GT4vmA6Of0QXh4om5Bw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/04/10/art-entertainment/from-our-archives-thomas-kinkades-american-dream.html

I wonder how TK decorated his own house -- that might be interesting. He seemed pretty obsessed with Disney stuff.

a lotta jp witkin i heard

^mashup that needs to happen

-American Artist Thomas Kinkade
-Macular Degeneration

http://www.mercurynews.com/los-gatos/ci_20385235/brother-says-painter-thomas-kinkade-battled-alcoholism?source=most_emailed

ah the "i was drunk" defence

His brother blames all those mean critics for T. Kinkade's turning alcoholic. What other explanation could there be?

ah the "i was drunk" defence

― Ò (Ówen P.), Friday, April 13, 2012 5:56 PM (50 minutes ago)

I'm going to not read this article. I choose assume booze was his defense for painting so goddamn much light.

it's pretty smart to bet someone that you can do something in your lifetime, because if you fail, how are they going to collect?

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:30 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ real talk

i like to think susan orlean is hounding his estate right now

O'Toole kept living

Hardcore lolz here, Abbbottt. You're a treasure.

I actually showed Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage in class and O'Toole's performance inspired a student to diagnose a new ailment: Humpty Dumpty Dementia.

But did you know there's another Kinkade movie? It's called Christmas Lodge and seems a correction of Cottage. If you look at the IMDb and Amazon reviews of the latter, then you'll discover that many Kinkadians were upset at all the swears and an attempted dad/son crotch grab. Lodge contains amped Jesus content and no swears. Also no respected actors to keep on living after their star turns here. Can you dig it?

I haven't seen TKCC (as the kids call it) but LOL @ Chris Elliot's wig in the trailer

Sorry, I just now noticed the request to comment.

I don't think the Kinkade industry has anything to do with art or technique; I think it has to do with selling an elaborate, porned out certificate of happiness and achievement to what is left of the middle class.

dude will you make me one of those certificates? will pay up to $59.95+s&h

I have one on ebay for $100. If you purchase it, I will add a squirrel in the foreground so adhered in syrup it can't move.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261002696878?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_3464wt_883