Yay... our local Thomas Kincaid gallery shut down...

[Dookus]

I knew this wasn't the right town for it. Fuckin' "Painter of Light" my ass. "Painter of Crap" is more like it.

[flamingyouth]

1. I can't find the link, but there was an exhibit here mocking him

The paintings were so great - like his scenes being carpetbombed, etc. Sort of like Hieronymus Bosch meets Thomas Kincaid.

I freaking hate that guy.

[BigMcLargehuge]

29. the first set is here

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1918

[flamingyouth]

31. Hee hee - yep, that's some of them all right

:hi:

[SoCalDem]

33. Love this one

[WindRavenX]

2. are there really galleries?

For real? Are you yankin' my chain Dookus? :P

[flamingyouth]

3. Oh, they're real all right

I'm sorry to say.

[Dookus]

5. oh sadly

they're very real.

My friend and I used to go in and genuflect in front of the pictures. Confused the hell outta the staff.

[Pale Blue Dot]

8. A friend of mine works for QVC and has met Mr. Kincaid.

Apparently, and I know this is hard to believe, the "painter of light" is a real asshole.

[flamingyouth]

He made collectors here wait in an unheated hangar at the airport

While he was diddling around on his private jet. We were having a real cold snap.

Frankly, I find that anyone who buys his crap deserves to stand for hours in an unheated building with temperatures in the 30s. :spank:

[susanna]

6. Yes, there are...

we have one here in (downriver) Detroit. The moment I saw it, I thought, "are they serious?"

Yeah. They are around.

edited because I never say it right the first time

[WindRavenX]

9. saddness!

Wow. Reading this made me really sad ;(
Some people consider his "work" to be...good. Sigh.

[susanna]

16. I am right there with you.

I do not understand it, except for people wishing for a world that never was...

[Sporadicus]

They're Real, All Right...

There are four within 50 miles of my home - :scared:

Care to see how fortunate you are?

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.gallerylocator.web.tk.GalleryLocatorServlet

[flamingyouth]

13. There are seven within 50 miles of me

:wow:

[crispini]

17. Five! You win so far! nt

[SmileyBoy]

15. Aw dammit, there's one in my city!!!

NOOOOO!!!!

[Pale Blue Dot]

4. But where will you get the light?

...where will you get the light????

[alittlelark]

7. My Fundie mom loves that sh*t , she hangs it next to

her' bloody Christ' art.

[Duncan Grant]

10. Wha?!

You don't like schmaltzy tack-o-la hanging above the fireplace? Imagine! :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

22. Dog's Shooting Pool moved me more than anything by Kinkaid

[Duncan Grant]

25. BWA-HA-HA!

If I want an inspirational painting, I'll go buy myself a paint-by-numbers "Last Supper" just like everyone else. :D :hi:

[Briarius]

11. It's sad to see another town deprived of culture

Hopefully there's a Wal-mart near where you can at least get a Kincaid reproduction to fill the void.


:evilgrin:

[susanna]

18. You are just plain...

B-A-A-A-AAD

LOL that was funny. :-)

[PartyPooper]

12. Oh, this is such a tragic development. American art has no captain!

:cry:

[Dookus]

14. I know...

he was the Clay Aiken of painting.

[susanna]

20. LOL!

Now that was funny. :-)

[cags]

19. Why is it that every art teacher I had hated Thomas Kincaid and called him

a fraud. I never really understood. i don't find his work fascinating or anything but I never understood the disdain for him by art teachers. i wondered sometimes if they were jealous because he was making money from his art and they really weren't. i don't know

[Dookus]

28. he's not a fraud per se...

he actually paints (or at least he did... I read he doesn't anymore).

But his work isn't art - it's product. He's a master of marketing. He makes paintings that he can sell to the masses. He's to painting what Sarah Brightman is to opera.

[salvorhardin]

21. Thomas Kincaid isn't worth a tube of titanium white

to the true art genius that was Bob Ross!

[Kali]

26. ha - I remember him

a little green over here whoooo and some white wheeeeeright here and doot doot doot a little tree......

[tonekat]

35. Oh yes, I remember his "happy little trees"

...I wonder if he ever had a grumpy day in his life?

[El Fuego]

23. Awwwwww! :tries to act empathethic:

but laughs

[El Fuego]

24. Awwwwww! :tries to act empathethic:

but laughs

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. But what would motels do for art to hang over the Magic Fingers beds

if it weren't for Thomas Kincaid?

:puke:

[NV Whino]

30. Is there hope?

Do you think the one near me will close? I hope, I hope, I hope.

[Hardrada]

32. There was unfortunate popular art before Kincaid.

Does anyone remember the fad of painting/prints etc of kids and dogs and cats with huge plaintive unearthly eyes? I thin this was end of the Sixties and early Seventies. Last time I saw one of those it was in some kind of flea market shop and that was also some time back. Just curious. Maybe I was just hallucinating all that stuff.

[Dookus]

34. ah, Margaret Keane

[miss_kitty]

39. goddammit Dookus!

I was gonna do something 'Really Keane'
There was a legendary fight over the wide eyed moppet provenance when the Keanes divorced-and they weren't trying to put the blame on each other-they were both arguing who originated the freakishly large-eyed shitefest. Margaret 'won'.

:P

On Edit: http://www.keane-eyes.com/ Warning! Too. ugly. to. be. believed.

[Dookus]

41. this'll give you nightmares

mutant 4-headed siamese twins with superocular inflammation

[Hardrada]

47. Thanks for refeshing my memory.

Yikes, OMG!! AAARGH.

[miss_kitty]

48. OMG! the prices! THE PRICES!

jesus christ. I can't believe I have to WORK to get a show when I see yards of canvas wasted in this sad sad big-eyed way.

Maybe I'll find a gimmick-How about figures with big asses?

[PopSixSquish]

53. NOW STOP THAT!!!!!!

Dammit, that hurts.

[NV Whino]

40. Yes, but they weren't as insidious as Kincaid

[mitchum]

50. Don't forget Patrick Nagel!

my "favorite" schlock painter

[tonekat]

36. 60 minutes did a story on him

showed him signing the "special" paintings as quickly as he could while his assistants piled them up like cordwood.

It would be funny if someday he revealed that his entire career was actually a piece of performance art, that he was actually making a comment on art and it's dependency on commerce, blah, blah...but I don't think that's going to happen.

[Shakespeare]

38. That's the interview where he said he's greater than Picasso.

Yes, that is trutly wretch-worthy.

[miss_kitty]

49. that shit reminds me of

Chihuly. What a hack.

[solinvictus]

51. He's dead...

so Nagel took the secret to the grave. He was THE artist of the 1980's.

[barb162]

37. his stuff is total schtick, the worst of philistine, real crap

I can't say enough bad things about this guy.

[MissMarple]

42. Is this a sign, a turning of the tide, so to speak?

God may be marking the point where the pendulum begins it's long slow swing to the left. :eyes:

[lazarus]

43. We stopped by the one at the mall near here yesterday

My 13 year old daughter, who is learning art (and is incredibly talented) ripped one of his paintings to shreds. She spotted a lot of stuff I had even missed.

If you know art, it looks even worse.

[MissMarple]

45. Figuratively ripped, I assume. But the mental image was great!

I do understand the impulse to shred or at least turn them to the wall. :D

[KG]

44. tragedy averted - a great use found for kinkade paintings!

[sendero]

46. People who gravitate towards..

... the innocuous and insipid need "art" too :)

[Fridays Child]

52. Here are a couple of works by a TRUE painter of light...

...Albert Bierstadt.

[MissMarple]

54. Oh, honey, I've heard Bierstadt being ripped to shreds, too.

It was at a John Singer Sargent exhibition. He made his living doing society portraits, but his love was painting subjects and scenery in Italy. I have to admit, the woman I overheard made quite cogent points comparing Sargent's scenery with Bierstadt's. However, Bierstadt is superior to Kincaid, he was an artist not a commercial hack.