Defend the indefensible - Thomas Kinkade

Also, i seem to recall some challopsy reviews of Transformers 2 that said they were like avant garde art or something.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, April 9, 2012 7:46 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Armond White doesn't count

the essay by michael bay's film school teacher in the intro to criterion edition of armageddon is pretty convincing that bay is an... artist.

a lot of 18th and 19th century portrait painters hated their wealthy patrons

tbf, most of those portraits exist now in a kind of pampered oblivion. few care about them outside of their blood descendants, some art curators and the odd antiquarian.

oh yeah, but there were tons of them, and among them a few that have been enshrined as enduring masterpieces. i'm not saying that such stuff is held in great esteem by the art world (a sphere of spheres if there ever was one), only that it isn't dismissed with the prejudice reserved for kinkaid, even when it's similarly kitschy.

unless the noblemen are depicted as glowing with midichlorian particles, they wouldn't be operating on the same kitsch level.

oops, yeah, jumped tracks between portraiture and you know, domestic beasties and flower gardens. the portraits we choose to remember aren't typically kitschy.

mad xposts but i can't stop myself:

that's um...a placenta beret

i hate u forks

it's what i do

I like you better when you make pottery

one coin two sides

wish i hadn't read that :(

two forks one cup

The pic with him painting with a beret on is so funny. He's an artist!

guerrilla in the war on art

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/109442.html

April 7, 2012
Thomas Kinkade, RIP
Posted by Becky Akers on April 7, 2012 07:41 AM

How disheartening and sad that Thomas Kinkade, the “Warrior of Light,” has left us in this holy season. He died yesterday at his home in California, of “natural causes,” at the age of 54.

If you don’t thrill to Mr. Kinkade’s magnificent landscapes of bridges, cottages, streams, and profusely blooming gardens, all glowing in light from sun, moon, or lamp, you are probably a member of the sniveling “art establishment.” Mr. Kinkade eschewed the nihilism, obscenity, and utter nonsense of modern “art” in favor of truth and beauty. "With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel,” he said.

While politicians murder, rob, lie, and exploit, while bureaucrats and the State’s other lackeys leech off and persecute us, this gentle artist, this devout servant of the Almighty, will celebrate Easter this year in the immediate presence of his Savior.

“The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; 
the devout are taken away, and no one understands 
that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.” Is. 57:1

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.

warrior of light!

you do get a strongly martial vibe from his work i feel

if he hadn't died so young that walmart museum probably would have fulfilled his prophecy eventually

It took me until a second reading of that obit that I realized it wasn't sarcasm :(

will celebrate Easter this year in the immediate presence of his Savior.

seated directly to jesus's right IIRC

wtf at people who believe this shit

this clusterfuck reminds me of the time I visited my parent's house a few years ago and found a bunch of paintings on the wall, some of them bought from a yard sale for $5 each, some of them from a dollar store, because the walls were too bare

I guess that was re: whoever's point upthread it was that kinkade went into this business because the average house has 40 walls

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