"Republican Art"? Anyone *HERE* *like* Thomas Kinkade?

[FormerDittoHead]

http://www.thomaskinkade.com

Is this a Republican/Democrat thing, or just personal taste?

[LSK]

1. hes a Republican?

He paints Republicans??

:shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. His side line buisiness is body painting Republican senators and having

them roll around on canvases.

[LSK]

16. bah

He should do the interns, not the Senators!

:P

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. The interns are all filled with republican senator dick,

so they don't have the capacity to roll around on canvases because of the odd center of gravity problem of trying to roll around with some guy's added weight attached to you.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. He operates a factory of artist monkeys.

Personally, I believe Thomas Kinkade should be dragged out into the streets, hung, and quartered for foisting his crap onto society. Bad taste should be a crime.

[petronius]

5. Now I admit - I would buy a ticket to tour the factory of monkey-artists..

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Well, I'm not saying we harm the monkeys. I like monkeys.

I just think Thomas Kinkade should get the William Wallace treatment.

[petronius]

12. Of course - I was assuming the monkeys were well-treated

and enjoyed their work! I think a smaller primate would get a thrill seeing the kind of crap that a bunch of the so-called 'Great Apes' were buying!

Still, your idea is sound - I wonder what Kinkade would yell at the end of the WW treatment...

[FormerDittoHead]

21. Not monkeys, according to this...

[BarenakedLady]

15. Seconded

His stuff is total crap

[petronius]

4. The two categories tend to overlap:

People who like ugly, schlocky, vapid, over-priced, faux-Christian 'art' tend not to be Ds...

(And there is no way in hell I'm clicking on your link - I'd probably see something awful!)

[Aristus]

6. I think his stuff is crap. But what I really object to is his use of

Christianity as a marketing tool. That's just wrong.

[Jade Fox]

9. Christian stuff is big bucks these days......n/t

[regnaD kciN]

34. Same here, and...

...I also object to his ridiculous trademarking of "The Painter of Light<tm>" as part of his business name (as in Thomas Kinkade, the Painter of Light<tm>). I guess I have a low tolerance for that sort of pretension.

Seriously, after running across his stuff, I was thinking of officially renaming myself James David Walley, the Photographer of Light<tm>. Which would, of course, raise the question "what else does anyone photograph except light?" ;-)

[Kajsa]

48. That's blasphemy!

We all know the true
painter of light was Rembrandt!!

What a jerk!

:grr:

[Jade Fox]

8. I got a birthday card this year....

As I looked at it I was thinking, "Man, that's some crappy artwork". Guess who?

[npincus]

10. not great-looking art for me, whatever his politics

[Crazy Dave]

11. He's currently under FBI investigation

For defrauding investors. Sounds like a republican to me.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kinkade29aug29,0,6796226.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[spinbaby]

13. There's a great parody site

On edit: Found it:

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

[FormerDittoHead]

19. ROTFL!!! (sample)

reference (again): http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=1918

[Arugula Latte]

23. Hey, isn't that George Allen over there on the far right?

:shrug:

[FormerDittoHead]

24. Note: picture was withdrawn from "tinypic.com" due to a kkk scene...

I'm thinking they didn't get the "satire" of it.

Here's the picture hosted from my own website:



again, this is from:
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=1918
...where there are some truly great parodies!

[Tyo]

14. Is it just a coincidence?

All of his buildings look like the frigging fires of Hell are burning inside. If you saw a house like that in real life you'd either be dialing 911 or trying to get your hands on some holy water. Art for the Anti-Christ.

[LynneSin]

17. Kinkade is a republican - who else but repukes would do this to investors

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15391651.htm

[FormerDittoHead]

20. Only by luck did I start this today! I swear I didn't know about this!

If he waddles like a Republican, and quacks like a Republican....

"These dealers became investors primarily because they were believers in faith, love, family and God, and the paintings reflect those values," said Joseph Ejbeh, a Rochester Hills, Mich.-based attorney who tried an arbitration case that began in San Francisco in December 2004. "A lot of these people were pulled into this scheme because of this representation, but what Thomas Kinkade's company did to them was despicable."

....

"Earlier this year, Kinkade signed a deal with developers in a northern Idaho resort town to help design five lake-view houses that look like those in paintings such as "Beyond Autumn Gate." The houses start at $4 million."

....

So, I'm thinking at STARTING at $4M these 'traditional values' are for like .03% of those who lived in the 'good old days'...

[LynneSin]

22. $4mil for a house in Idaho

I'm guessing this is for the fabulously wealthy who want to isolate themselves in something they think it 'artwork'

[kwassa]

18. He is the greatest artist of all time.

[Dukkha]

25. looks like the crap you find hanging in hotel rooms

or a Cracker Barrel or dentist waiting room. Totally unimaginative paint by numbers homogenized boredom. Not a trace of artistic expression.

[bedpanartist]

26. Could have sworn it was Don Ross

The painterly afro god!

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. That was Bob Ross, and Bob Ross was ten times the artist that

Kinkade is.

Ross' art - especially his TV show - was about helping people find their inner artist and have fun being creative, even if they weren't making great art.

Kinkade is all about selling fake American cum Christian shlock and shit, convincing his Christian collectors that the values will increase, and constantly milking his fan base for all the manna he can manage, and screwing them in the end.

[bedpanartist]

31. that's genius!

the real work of art is getting those dollars to fall from the pockets of the pious.

[Blue_In_AK]

32. I loved Bob Ross

and his happy little trees. Kincade is just shlock.

[ghostsofgiants]

29. I don't care what his political affiliation is, the art is awful.

[sendero]

30. PT Barnum..

... said it all - there's a sucker born every minute.

I could piss on some toilet paper and it would have more artistic merit than that insipid smaltz.

And there's little doubt that this douchebag is a Republican.

[bertha katzenengel]

33. Rabrrrrrrr? Is that you? Have you changed your username?

;) Hi, FormerRushFan. I'm just teasing Rabrrrrrrr. He's an artist, and a BIG fan of Kinkade's.

:hi:

[pitohui]

35. no one likes him

i have a republican friend who collects art and even he don't like him

who likes this fraud, seriously?

[jobycom]

36. I've seen people here who like him, but they are beaten down by art cops

in very brutal fashion and stop exercising their freedom of speech soon after.

It's art, it's subjective, and it's no one's business if someone else likes him. I don't know his politics.

As for me, I think he has an obvious skill and and interesting technique which might be more charming if it wasn't so over-produced. It's not really my style. His pictures don't disgust or anger me, as they seem to do to some people. They just don't hold my attention for very long. Gotta hand it to him--he's a brilliant marketer.

I just read the Wikipedia entry on him. Sounds like he's more fun when he's drinking.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

39. Art is not nearly as subjective as you think.

There is definitely a huge difference between good art and bad art and that is NOT a matter of taste.

[jobycom]

51. Maybe a few more years of life for you

and you'll grow past what you think you know and understand the subjectivity of the rules you think are absolute a little better.

Call me stupid, and I call you immature. Seems a fair trade. :grr:

[bleedingheart]

42. I am with you...

art is subjective

one man's art is another man's bird cage liner

[Norrin Radd]

37. Oddly, Kinkade painted backgrounds in the animated film

Fire and Ice

[clyrc]

38. My parents are Dems who like Kinkade

This year my mom got a whole set of Thomas Kinkade Angel water globe ornaments for her Christmas tree. I try to stay neutral about the subject around her, as she gets very offended when my taste is different from hers. I just never found his stuff interesting. But anyway it's marginally better than the Precious Moments crap so many of my female relatives adore. They all think I'm a pretentious snob anyway, so I don't say anything.

[Guy Fawkes]

40. Thomas Kinkade sucks. (But check this out....)

SomethingAwful did a Photoshop Phriday of Thomas Kinkade's "art." It's fucking awesome:
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3863

[bleedingheart]

41. I don't like to judge art....I think it is wrong.

I don't like certain types of art, but I don't judge them because their lack of appeal for me personally shouldn't give me a right to laugh at other people's taste.

My husband and I have different taste in art. He actually likes some of Kinkade's stuff just like he likes a bunch of other stuff that I may like or may not.

For example I like gaudy, earthy jewelry...my husband can't stand chunky stuff..but he buys it for me anyways because he knows it is what I like. My taste in art ranges from cubist to pre-raphaelite..

I actually bought him a small garden picture of Kinkades because it was the only one I found palatable but he likes it...and I respect that.

Now I realize that Kinkade is a jerk and that it appears he is setting up some lousy business schemes but there have been many artists and even wanna be artists that weren't sweet and sainted people...Kinkade found a niche...he makes money.....he doesn't produce anything on the level of Monet or Titian...but apparently a lot of people like it..

[Avalux]

43. Horrible stuff - pains me to look at it.

x(

[crim son]

44. My mother, a middle of the road democrat,

likes Thomas Kincade. :shrug:

[ForFuxakes]

47. I have to admit...

I like it, but then I am not an art afficianado (sp)

I do like to just kind of lose myself in the pictures on a moment of quiet refelction and imagine peaceful places like those he depicts. And if one truly reads the gospels, you could se the correlations...IMHO:shrug:

[Katina]

45. his stuff is the painted equivalent

of Hallmark collectible figurines. I hate that kind of stuff. cutesy crap.

(my apologies to anyone who likes it...just MVHO)

[leftyladyfrommo]

46. I don't think his work could be called "art." n/t

[hfojvt]

49. really, that's far too informal, it should be called

'Arthur'

[deucemagnet]

50. Alas, there is no accounting for taste.

Or the lack thereof.