Thomas Kinkade—“Painter Of Light”—Is Dead
The Mercury News reports that Thomas Kinkade, the popular but not critically-acclaimed painter whose work could be found in malls nationwide, has passed away at the age of 54. Here’s some of the art that made him so successful.
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Benjamin Sapiens a year agoHe was a talentless hack, a con man and a pretty awful jerk, but RIP nonetheless (you’d have to do a lot worse than that to deserve death in my book, even considering his crimes against art). As for his “art,” though, all I can say is good fucking riddance. Although thinking that his death will make his art go away is actually pretty silly of me. His enterprise doesn’t rely on him painting this stuff any more than Garfield®©™ relies on Jim Davis to illustrate Everyone’s favorite fat cat!™.
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Prescott Moncrieff a year agoRIP With that being said, his art looks like a bastardized hybrid of HDR photography and Disney movie cover art. “This is called “Unicorn Farting Rainbow”. If you turn the lights down, it looks different. See, master of light.”
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Crazy Legz a year agoThat’s sad. It’s been a tradition for awhile that every Christmas I get my Mom a Thomas Kincade calendar. Weird to see he was only 54. I would have thought he was much older.
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goatsilk a year agopeople don;t like to admit it, but Kinkade had talent. his works were sentimental for sure, but in another way they transcend sentimentalism. they approach light in a unique way, they have a very signature design and they reflect our most treasured desires of safety and comfort in a beautiful setting. I also like the fact that he signed all his own paintings with his own blood, so that they’d be easily authenticated for a long time to come. RIP Mr. Kinkade
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