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In the discussion thread: Thomas Kinkade, one of nation's most popular painters, dies in Los Gatos [View all]

Sat Apr 7, 2012, 10:16 PM

100. Thank you for this post among others on this thread that point out

that this guy is not an artist. There is very little to admire about his "paintings".
He marketed kitch. His is the sort of stuff you find at craft fairs. When Grandma Spoon Decorator died no one announced the passing of her great talent. When Uncle Beer Can Hat passed on we did not mention his numerous works. So now this Thomas Kitch Painter dies it is the passing of a great American artist???? No way. Imagine a list of great American Artists and seeing the name of Thomas Kincade listed. It is absolutely absurd.

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Thomas Kinkade, one of nation's most popular painters, dies in Los Gatos [View all]	UrbScotty	Apr 2012	OP
Off to the cottage in the sky	Botany	Apr 2012	#1
Beautiful, isn't it ... n/t	RKP5637	Apr 2012	#5
ah ah ah	Botany	Apr 2012	#6
There is such magic in all of his paintings, places one would want to be, so	RKP5637	Apr 2012	#17
In the same league with great artists like Keane...	rfranklin	Apr 2012	#39
Horsies!	Hissyspit	Apr 2012	#56
I prefer the improved versions...	JackRiddler	Apr 2012	#124
Margaret Keane?	mahatmakanejeeves	Apr 2012	#77
There's a story behind that	Geoff R. Casavant	Apr 2012	#80
Add Bil Keane for the trifecta.	JackRiddler	Apr 2012	#125
so calm, so peaceful . . . so empty. Nothing personal, just a fact. nt	patrice	Apr 2012	#60
Yep! Nope, didn't take it personally. n/t	RKP5637	Apr 2012	#61
I don't care what the art critics say. I get a cozy feeling looking at his paintings.	pacalo	Apr 2012	#15
And some get a queasy feeling...	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#45
Totally agree. His was the "sucker born every minute"	mistertrickster	Apr 2012	#49
YEEESSSSSS! The only thing missing is the unicorns!	Surya Gayatri	Apr 2012	#105
CNN is reporting like he is some great artist. He was a great CON artist.	Lint Head	Apr 2012	#96
+1,000! The hagiographic paeans in the media	Surya Gayatri	Apr 2012	#106
Yep the media will spin it	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#115
As the saying goes, you learn something new every day.	pacalo	Apr 2012	#98
Here's more about how the products were created...	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#114
So I suppose you could clone the guy by scraping paint off his painting?	47of74	Apr 2012	#122
Thank you for this post among others on this thread that point out	indivisibleman	Apr 2012	#100
Hallmark Cards will mourn his passing...	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#121
"I don't know much about art, but I know what I like"	Hissyspit	Apr 2012	#72
Yes and no	DonCoquixote	Apr 2012	#89
Oddly enough, he painted backgrounds in the animated movie "Fire & Ice"	Norrin Radd	Apr 2012	#22
That is surprising.	CaliforniaPeggy	Apr 2012	#2
It happens	Mz Pip	Apr 2012	#9
Obama's domestic drones are working!	swag	Apr 2012	#3
...	RetroLounge	Apr 2012	#42
!	mwdem	Apr 2012	#90
If this was FB, I'd have to like this	TheCruces	Apr 2012	#135
Natural causes at age 54	proud2BlibKansan	Apr 2012	#4
i know tons of people who died in their early 50s	pitohui	Apr 2012	#101
agree	CountAllVotes	Apr 2012	#138
In recent years became something of a pop culture icon..	pipoman	Apr 2012	#7
His paintings were cliched.	Drunken Irishman	Apr 2012	#8
Most artists I know called him "Painter of Shite"	Warpy	Apr 2012	#95
Bwaaahaaaaa! Laughed my tush off @	Surya Gayatri	Apr 2012	#108
at least i outlived the bastard.	mopinko	Apr 2012	#116
3-1 odds he died of a OD.	anti-alec	Apr 2012	#10
Or sugar.	DavidDvorkin	Apr 2012	#11
Nope. Too empty . . . starvation? a "Hunger Artist"? nt	patrice	Apr 2012	#63
I meant as in an overdose of cloying sweetness.	DavidDvorkin	Apr 2012	#66
I know that's what you meant. I was just building on the metaphor. nt	patrice	Apr 2012	#67
Dubious, but...	regnaD kciN	Apr 2012	#29
I heard he once took a leak on an elevator in Las Vegas...	Frank Cannon	Apr 2012	#37
it was a statue of Winnie the Pooh...	IamK	Apr 2012	#44
Alcohol is likely it	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#47
I'm voting for Hep C	XemaSab	Apr 2012	#32
That is a shock	Rosa Luxemburg	Apr 2012	#12
Rest in Peace	mia	Apr 2012	#13
RIP	emilyg	Apr 2012	#14
RIP.	OnyxCollie	Apr 2012	#16
Utter shit all of it.	alarimer	Apr 2012	#18
Kind of a crook...	uberblonde	Apr 2012	#19
Painter of Blight	onager	Apr 2012	#20
Mall culture "fine art." Blech. I prefer comics to that.	K8-EEE	Apr 2012	#21
ha ha	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#48
He was a conservative Christian but he did not politicize his paintings	bluestateguy	Apr 2012	#23
Only a conservative Christian could make millions on paintings that bad.	mistertrickster	Apr 2012	#52
oh, there is many a liberal with terrible taste in art, too.	kwassa	Apr 2012	#91
He went into the light.	lob1	Apr 2012	#24
He was in some serious trouble, I believe	CrawlingChaos	Apr 2012	#25
Not as long as the Bradford Exchange exists.	dixiegrrrrl	Apr 2012	#69
Actually, the Los Gatos police participate in our county homeless collaborative	KamaAina	Apr 2012	#82
Unfortunately, you're already being proved right, CC...his death won't stop the flow...	Surya Gayatri	Apr 2012	#104
I've got a book of his he wrote before going commercial.	Kablooie	Apr 2012	#26
I LOVE the Dinotopia art	sakabatou	Apr 2012	#31
Those "fairytale cottages" were really more like Cotswolds cottages.	highplainsdem	Apr 2012	#134
Ah yes. Stow on the Wold. Morton on the Marsh. Upper and Lower Slaughter.	Kablooie	Apr 2012	#137
I'd have thought he'd be beaten to death	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#27
Does this mean those awful paintings are worth more money now?	Tabasco_Dave	Apr 2012	#28
only if you're a kitsch collector...	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#41
No, probably not. They were grossly overvalued because of the marketing scam.	yardwork	Apr 2012	#94
He was only 54...	ProfessionalLeftist	Apr 2012	#30
his liver was 104... n/t	IamK	Apr 2012	#35
Know the truth	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#50
Art is in the eye of the beholder	ProfessionalLeftist	Apr 2012	#68
Cliches don't get to the point of this amazing scam	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#70
Kinkaid, artist for people who think Disney is too dark.	EFerrari	Apr 2012	#110
yeah, in Disney the spooky places actually have witches in them...	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#127
Well now,	FlaGranny	Apr 2012	#33
Ya' know, FlaCranny, you are absolutely right.	Ferretherder	Apr 2012	#34
Well said, Granny.	Frank Cannon	Apr 2012	#38
you can't love Monet, van Gogh AND Kinkade...	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#40
It's "art" we love...	CanSocDem	Apr 2012	#71
Kinkade = art industry	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#78
Fair price argument is	FlaGranny	Apr 2012	#84
The prices were artificially inflated	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#92
BS! Of course you can love the work of all of these artists. I love what my baby grandson draws,	juajen	Apr 2012	#158
OK you can love kitsch art and you can love fine art	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#161
Who's to say? I, for one.	harmonicon	Apr 2012	#46
A more accurate comparison for Kinkade would be Lawrence Welk, not rock and roll of the 50s	Tom Ripley	Apr 2012	#79
+1	FLAprogressive	Apr 2012	#85
No matter what you think of his work	FlaGranny	Apr 2012	#88
The problem is Welk took great music and ruined it with his horrendous arrangements.	EFerrari	Apr 2012	#107
+1,000! Not an original brush stroke in the lot!	Surya Gayatri	Apr 2012	#109
I guess the Kinkade "art bubble" is about to burst, too.	sofa king	Apr 2012	#36
I think his bubble burst around '06	OmahaBlueDog	Apr 2012	#129
He certainly had a distinctive style and a knack for marketing. Like Ted deGrazia on steroids.	slackmaster	Apr 2012	#43
Distinctive style?	Hissyspit	Apr 2012	#57
This plate's just for you, Hissyspit	slackmaster	Apr 2012	#58
LOL	Hissyspit	Apr 2012	#74
Oh my god I'm gasping for breath - Where'd you ever find that plate?	NBachers	Apr 2012	#83
machines.	patrice	Apr 2012	#62
He overdosed on saccharine . . . nt	mistertrickster	Apr 2012	#51
Scammer and Crook....	NYC_SKP	Apr 2012	#53
In 2009, he was investigated by the FBI for defrauding investors.	mistertrickster	Apr 2012	#54
2006: Arbitration board awards $860,000 in damages and $1.2 million in fees and expenses to victims.	NYC_SKP	Apr 2012	#55
Wow, I never knew all this. Lots of stuff was going on with him. n/t	RKP5637	Apr 2012	#65
Rest in peace. His work was beautiful.	joanbarnes	Apr 2012	#59
Just don't post any of it	tawadi	Apr 2012	#130
Natural causes at 54???	Odin2005	Apr 2012	#64
Natural causes	NNN0LHI	Apr 2012	#73
"He was very aware of it and didn't care at all"...	Amerigo Vespucci	Apr 2012	#75
Now who are the art school hipsters going to sneer at?	Throd	Apr 2012	#76
So if all the "art school hipsters" die, who are you going to sneer at?	Hissyspit	Apr 2012	#99
I had no idea he was local	KamaAina	Apr 2012	#81
Middle Aged, Suburban, Republican White Ladies are probably in deep mourning.	FLAprogressive	Apr 2012	#86
Probably organizing support group meetings as we speak...	Surya Gayatri	Apr 2012	#112
what you see is not what you get	NJCher	Apr 2012	#87
So, I suppose he rises from the grave tomorrow?	2ndAmForComputers	Apr 2012	#93
I'm actually upset about this	TrogL	Apr 2012	#97
His real legacy is that he's changed how commercial art is sold and marketed	OmahaBlueDog	Apr 2012	#102
I dont care for his art but you are right.	DCBob	Apr 2012	#111
He misrepresented his works as originals done by him	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#120
I agree that they won't make as much, but...	OmahaBlueDog	Apr 2012	#128
and my point is...	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#131
I agree that the Chinese paint-by-numbers stuff was deceitful	OmahaBlueDog	Apr 2012	#156
More than deceitful	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#160
this article mentions Redlin	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#163
Thanks!	OmahaBlueDog	Apr 2012	#164
So for $650	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#165
Condolences to Nanette and the girls...	pfitz59	Apr 2012	#103
NY Times headline	NJCher	Apr 2012	#113
No disrespect intended to the deceased, or his family, but..	left coaster	Apr 2012	#117
I grew up with Tom in Placerville	trekbiker	Apr 2012	#118
I grew up with Thom and Pat too	pfitz59	Apr 2012	#136
54 is way too young, especially for a painter	tawadi	Apr 2012	#119
Dear god, that is a horror.	JackRiddler	Apr 2012	#123
Sold in sofa-sized paintings for $49.99	kwassa	Apr 2012	#133
I'm not sure what the criticism and snobbery from some people are about	Renew Deal	Apr 2012	#139
The pack mentality	tawadi	Apr 2012	#147
McDonald's is the most popular restaurant.	Incitatus	Apr 2012	#126
Artist to those who have no friggin' clue about art.	NoodleyAppendage	Apr 2012	#132
What is the controversy about this guy?	Renew Deal	Apr 2012	#140
Since you asked...	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#141
These were his paintings right?	Renew Deal	Apr 2012	#146
No, it was not his actual work. The reproductions were cleverly disguised	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#149
The works are his design, but Chinese workers "painted them"	OmahaBlueDog	Apr 2012	#151
I'm not sure most thought of it as "art marketing"	OmahaBlueDog	Apr 2012	#152
Your rule about buying art has some serious flaws...	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#153
You shouldn't buy art with regard to value	OmahaBlueDog	Apr 2012	#154
"they wanted a surefire investment"	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#159
Basically the angst falls like this	dmallind	Apr 2012	#142
Art 101	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#144
There ARE a lot of blithering idiots	dmallind	Apr 2012	#145
1. I went to one of the Kinkade galleries once in the 90's--the line was deliberately blurred	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#150
+1	DCBob	Apr 2012	#155
I like your analysis	OmahaBlueDog	Apr 2012	#157
What's the big deal? Either you like his work, or you don't...	BadtotheboneBob	Apr 2012	#143
Allright now	guitar man	Apr 2012	#148
Is your Thomas Kinkade Painting About to Increase in Value? (article)	marions ghost	Apr 2012	#162

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