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In reply to the discussion: The pile-on on Thomas Kinkaide - it's not about the art - [View all]Demit
(11,238 posts)his assistant whisked it away so he could do the same thing to the next canvas. I watched him do this. Please don't preach to me. I understand prints. I also understand the concept of make once, sell many times. And oh boy, so did Kinkade. But he was pretending that these canvases were originals. He was leading people to think they were original in some way. He was pandering to them, by relentlessly pushing on the idea that they were buying "art." Moreover, he was using the borrowed interest of spirituality & religion to push people's buttons. God is my agent, indeed.
He was a deeply cynical man, with no more than the same kind of hand skill that painters of Elvis on velvet have. He deserves all the opprobrium he is getting now, for pretending he was more and then capitalizing on it to the hilt, with his imprinted wastebaskets & lightswitches & hand & body lotion sets.