I love Thomas Kinkaid paintings.....

[aquaman]

They are soooo beautiful............. Just kidding, I don't get the craze.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. You had me going there for a second. :-)

[onager]

2. Heh! Good April Fool!

Kink-Aide's paintings creep me out. All those lone cabins in the dark wilderness, with smoke coming out of the chimney and one ray of light visible.

I always flash on "Hansel & Gretel," and assume some maniac is inside the cabin dismembering and baking children.

Then there's his whole Fundie bit, which just annoys me since I'm an atheist.

We were moving at work once, and a co-worker snagged a bunch of his crap for our new offices. I desperately tried to get them to the Dumpster, but wasn't quick enough.

[aquaman]

3. His stuff is creepy.....

I don't know how to explain it, but there is a weird vibe I get when I observe his "art." Spooky in a bad way.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

4. You had me going, too. I know he sells a lot but I have never run

into one of his paintings anywhere. So, who is buying this stuff and once they have it, what are they doing with it? Creepy, overdone tedious stuff. IMHO

[aquaman]

5. I had a friend...

who paid two grand for a painting by this guy and it was not attractive. Her husband is a Thomas freak, I told her that I believed her husband was weird even before I knew that he dug Thomas Kinkaid.

[onager]

6. Here's one reason it's creepy...

Kink-Aide never puts people in his paintings. (Or very rarely.)

Only one other painter comes to mind who did that. He had a funny toothbrush moustache and a girlfriend named Eva.

[autorank]

7. I knew his work reminded me of someone, and that it was not Alma Tedema

[wtmusic]

8. It's VERY hard to draw people!!

Keep at it, Thomas!

[aquaman]

9. LOL

[hyphenate]

10. I don't like his work

but it's more of how the RRR loves it than anything to do with the actual works of art themselves. I love paintings that pretty much exclude people (Edward Hopper is one of my favorite artists), but it's not so much that he doesn't have people in them, but that there is absolutely no MOOD in any of his work. It's all very lovely little provincial scenes, with a country air, and they're just so "matter-of-fact" that they can't arouse any kind of emotion in me.

Anyone know what I'm talking about when I talk about hotel "painting" sales? They're the kind where you have "hack" artists sitting and drawing pretty much the same scenes over and over and over again, and about once a month in some cities, you go to the loval Holiday Inn or Ramada Inn, and you can buy "original" works of art for "highly discounted" prices. That's the kind of work that Kinkade looks like to me--it's well done, but there is absolutely no soul to the work, and it doesn't even give me enough emotion to care about it.

The way the RRR loves it tells me another thing--they're as stupid as shit when it comes to real art. They would rather elevate someone like Kinkade with no personality in his work, than look at art that has survived through the centuries, like Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and any and all other classic painters, sculptors, or artists in any medium. We know a lto fo them do have decent educations to appreciate historic works, but they must be pretty soulless themselves.