Bob Ross OR Thomas Kinkade

[LynneSin]

Poll question: Bob Ross OR Thomas Kinkade

Basically both of them painted fluff - but who was the best artist of the 2?



Bob Ross

or

Thomas Kinkade

[elfwitch]

1. Bob, happy little trees RULE!!!

Bob was the best.
I liked it when he got excited when he cleaned his brush.

[Aristus]

6. "You simply dip your brush in the good ole odorless thinner here,

shake off the excess, and then just, heh, beat the devil out of it, ha-ha"

Thomas Kinkaide is a hack who got rich painting freeper-friendly fantasies.

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. I don't know which I liked more...

The happy little trees, or the happy little 'fro on his head.

Bob ruled.

[BiggJawn]

32. I STILL clean my brushes that way!

It really, really works!

Kincaid is a hack. "Painter of Light<tm>" my ass! He has illegal aliens doing all the painting then he steps in for 1/2 a dozen "highlights" and the signature. He "paints" something like 100 pix a day that way...

[On the Road]

2. For Presentation,

I have to give it to Bob Ross: "Now we'll pick up the larger brush and fill in all these happy little leaves in the background..."

[fob]

3. Bob Ross was CRAZZZYY good!

His painting would look confusing and then all of a sudden with one stroke of titanium white or theol blue, BAM!! the entire scene would come to life.

[elfwitch]

7. my favorite thing...

He'd spend 20 minutes painting this beautiful background with mountains and a lake and then BAM!!! he'd throw a tree right in the middle of it all. You'd be pissed until he was done and saw that the tree was perfect there.

[fob]

11. Thank you for confirming my viewing experience. I wasn't so

sure the, um, ah, herbs weren't influencing my version of events.

[LynneSin]

4. Who would actually vote for Thomas Kinkade?

I mean, he's been picked as the best artist by right-wing religious numnuts everywhere!

[soothsayer]

9. not to mention mall rats and QVC shoppers

Ever see that 60 Minutes piece on how fast he cranks out his paintings (mostly done by apprentices, but finished and signed by the 'master.'

He used to be a serious painter, though, before becoming 'master of light'

barf

Still, there's room for all kinds of art I reckon.

[Fenris]

5. Bring me the severed head of Tho. Kink-aid on a pike!

Bob Ross made me want to paint lame nature scenes. Thomas Kinkaide makes me want to rub my eyes with quicklime.

[CBHagman]

14. Tell us how you REALLY feel.

Someone seems to have touched a nerve here. Interesting. I didn't know about this phenomenon.

Go ahead and flame me, but I'm into the flower-surrounded cottage fantasy. Just don't make me pull the weeds...

:-)

[Fenris]

15. Why are his houses always on fire?

;)

[burythehatchet]

20. Because he is

"Painter of Light"

I can look accross the street and see one his McArt Stores.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. How about this one?

http://www.josart.net/kin4.html

[GoddessOfGuinness]

53. LMAO

THAT'S funny!

[Rabrrrrrr]

55. Check out the other thread about this,

that offered this link:

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

It will make you sick with laughter, with such wonderful gems as these:



http://images.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/01-16-04-kinkade/Rowsdower!.jpg

They're all photoshopped versions of Kinkade's abominations.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

58. hiLARious!

Thanks!

[KC]

10. Bob Ross

is great.
I used to watch him all the time and he even inspired
me to start painting too.

Kinkade is good too, but I just like Ross's 'relaxed' style.
He's hysterical too.

KC

[curse10]

12. Thomas Kinkade can kiss my ass!!

He not only does he paint fluff he paints shitty trashy fluff!

[DrWeird]

13. What are you stupid?

:smoke:

If you're going to compare Bob Ross and Kinkade why don't you include Hitler as well. He liked to paint too.

[GOPisEvil]

16. Bob Ross knew he was just painting fluff.

Kinkade (and his team) paint fluff but pass it off as serious art.

[phillybri]

17. I hate that Thomas Kinkade "Art Gallery in a mall" bullshit...

:puke:

[jmowreader]

18. Worse than both...

Bob Timberlake!

http://www.bobtimberlake.com

[Ratty]

19. Very VERY disturbing stuff

It was so perniciously hypnotic.

When I watch cooking shows or home improvement shows, at least somewhere in the back of my mind--far back to be sure--there was some part that thought I might try what I was watching. I might really cook that someday, or that guy makes reinforcing the cellar against earthquakes so easy I might just give it a try myself ...

But those Bob Ross shows. Man, what was it with them? There was no way, no how, I would ever pick up a canvas and brush and try to do any of that stuff. But there I'd be, a half hour later, rubbing my eyes, wondering what I had been doing for the past half hour, echoes of "happy clouds" and "happy trees" still whispering in my ears.

I always found this disturbing.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Oh, Christ, that's a brainless question: Bob Ross

Kinkade is an industry lacking art.

Bob Ross painted fluffy stuff, but he painted fluffy stuff because he was painting stuff that would be easier for other people to paint: for him, it wasn't so much the end product as it was his desire to bring painting, and the relaxation and creative spirit of it, to people who wouldn't otherwise have ever taken up brush.

That's artistry at a high level right there.

Kinkade and his faux-Christian-hyperbole pedantic ignorant lack of artistic talent can kiss my starving artist ass. (though I don't deny that Kinkade has two good skills: one, the skill of the dupe and the con, and second, he really does have an incredible mastery of his brush and use of color - I can't deny that at all - it's just too bad he uses to sucker people into buying his shlock).

Bob Ross was a great guy, an incredibly nice person who simply wanted to bring people to do their own paintings, and he was a military vet. :-)

[newyawker99]

26. I agree Rab!

Bob Ross = :thumbsup:

Thomas Kincaid = :puke:

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. Thanks NewYawker99

For your support. Always good to hear your voice beyond welcomes and milestones. :-)

[mwdem]

30. Remember the Presindential Prayer website?

Thomas Kinkaide is on the honorary committee. Enough said.

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Figures.

What a disgusting opportunistic cretin.

How much money does he donate to social causes? I bet not very damned much.

Wyland - how much does he donate? One major hell of a lot.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

54. Did Bob Ross die?

I always liked his TV show...

[Rabrrrrrr]

59. Yep, died a few years ago

But there are people he trained who continue to teach others.

[LynzM]

22. Can we get reruns

Of the 'happy little trees' shows? Puh-leeze!! :bounce:

[LynneSin]

24. I so agree with you

I miss his show. I'd watch it again in a heartbeat!

We don't have enough fluffy happy clouds in our lives today

[Ratty]

25. Sort of

http://www.bobross.com/showvid.html

[LynzM]

61. Hrm...

I miss them, but not quite that much ;) Maybe if I had a whole lot of money lying around, LOL

[DS1]

28. Kinkade needs to have every one of his paintings

systematically pulled over his shoulders.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

29. Lynnnne....Lynnne.. Bob vs TomK?

Are you freakin still high from this weekend?
Girl, get with it.

[Mz Pip]

33. Thomas Kinkaid

is the epitomy of WaL Mart art. His painting are seriously over priced but the images are everywhere. Wouldn't be surprised if he came out with a line of Thomas Kinkaid Douche Bags. Pretty little waterfall, babbling brook, a light in the window. Blech.

MzPip
:dem:

[DS1]

37. There are people in Cali designing an entire town with him

Interiors and exteriors of all houses with be Kinkade inspired.

I'd find a book of matches inspiring.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

38. EWWWWWW

ewww what kind of hell is that?!

Kinkadia?

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. Last I heard, a few months ago, though, is that it is bombing

and not doing well, in terms of getting people to buy into it.

But every home comes with it's own original Kinkade! I remember reading the sales literature last year, the year before, sometime in hell, and being appaled and disgusted.

[Mz Pip]

44. I visited it.

There is a Kinkaid subdivision not far from where we live so one Sunday we went to see it.

The houses are pretty typical subdivision houses with a bit more frou-frou than usual. But the interiors of the model homes are chock full of Kinkaid art, furniture and gobbledygook. Sappy and saccharine beyond belief. Expensive, too.

I could never live in a place like that.

MzPip
:dem:

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. I'd kill myself first

But on the other hand, it would be fun to buy one of those, and then deface all the art and paint the cottage black and just, in general, be very kind and friendly and a good neighbor, but artistically "offensive".

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

48. haha you read my mind

I'd actually paint the house white, but splatter obnoxiously bright neon paint colors on it.

Kinda like a Jackson Pollack house outside, and I'd buy Andy Warhol screen prints... picasso prints, matisse prints, alfred stieglitz photos, jerry uelsmann photos... etc.

I'd use the thomas kinkade prints for the paper and collage or paint over them, then give them to my yuppie neighbors as presents.

But that's just me. You can tell I invested wayyyy too much thought into this Kinkadia thing.

[Rabrrrrrr]

49. If we could get funding, like an NEA grant or something,

and buy one of those houses in order that our ART will be turning that schlock crap INTO art, oh, that would be totally awesome! Then invite the neighbors over.

"Yes, I call this 'Cottage in Pink with Lilac Bushes and Hyacinth, Covered With Urine', what do you think of it? Fitting, isn't it? Or perhaps you'd prefer Maggie's 'Phallic Summer Lighthouse On the Bay In Thunderstorm About To Be Swallowed By Uterus?' Anyway, the blood on the floor is a Christic symbol of Kinkade's sacrifice of artistic integrity in order to build a corporatized faux-religious empire, reminiscent of our fascist faux-Christian dictatorship under Shrub. Pretty cool, huh?"

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

50. I'm bookmarking that! haha

"My, Rabrrrrr... I love your newest "Dirt Stained Gardenias' Fellowship with the Three Leafed Plant" ". The organic materials you incorporated into the piece are stunning...

[Rabrrrrrr]

52. LOL!

Well done!

And over here I'd love to show you my "American Flag With Fecal Matter From an American Soldier Killed In Iraq Sitting In A 55 Gallon Barrel Of Iraqi Oil Next to an SUV". If you want to take that one home, I'll let you have it if you promise to admit you are a jingoistic Christian triumphalist ass who considers a full tank of gas more important than the lives of brown people. Ass.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

56. They need to sell the homes

via The Hamilton Collection in the Sunday supplements. Each home can be paid for in 6 monthly installments of $600,000.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

34. Let's see... Bob Ross or the Kenny G of the art world?

Hmm...

WHOOPS I MEANT BOB ROSS GOT MY VOTE

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. Egads, and your art always made me think you had artistic sense!

Magiie, for shame :spank:

:evilgrin:

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

36. I thought we were voting for worst!

SHOOT DAMMIT ahhh

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. Whew! I respect you again!

Glad it was an innocent mistake.

Cheers!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

46. haha, thank you

Thomas Kinkade is a scary scary scary man.

If i met him... let's just say he'd never be able to hold a paintbrush quite the same ever again.

[KG]

39. proof there is no god - bob ross is dead, and dick cheney isn't

:(

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. and Kinkade isn't, either

the bastard

[DS1]

42. No kidding

I think "the master of light" should show us how good he is at patting out his own flames.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

47. master of fluuuuufffy wuffy pufffy

can't be bothered with flames, those pesky hot colors get in the way of his airy poofy style.

[DS1]

51. maybe his blue flowers will leap into action and save him

or a deer will prance by pissing on him

[LynneSin]

60. WOW, that really made me think

Life is cruel

[Bride of Cthulhu]

57. I just love Bob Ross!

He's too cool. He is missed.