do you like thomas kinkade paintings?

[UpsideDownFlag]

...cuz you'd better not.

[jedicord]

1. I like them.

I just hate how commercialized they've become. It's like American flags, yellow ribbons, even the Star Spangled Banner, all of which have been turned into crap with over-/mis-use.

[Jessica]

2. They're now on Glade candles. Sell out.

[UpsideDownFlag]

im under the impression he's an uber-fundie. nt

[KurtNYC]

8. Seems likely...

[mitchtv]

3. me

not :puke:

[AlCzervik]

4. He is a souless whore

he even has a line of candles by glade now, stink up your bathroom and light a kincaid.

[Phillycat]

5. Um. NO.

And do you want to know why? Because they are CRAP. :puke:

Thomas Kinkaide, Painter of Crap!

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. OMG! I have a whole wall of 'em!!

I LOOOOOVE Kinkade!!!!!

[DS1]

13. Stolen from me! Fucker.

:grr:

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Oh, they were not! Would you stop with that meme?

First it was "Rabrrrrrr stole my Klimts" then it was "Rabrrrrrr stole my Twomblys", and now it's "Rabrrrrrr stole my Kinkades". Give it up. No one believes you.

I have all the receipts for the $20,000+ worth I've bought. I keep them in a fireproof safe box.

These babies are AWESOME investments. But more importantly, THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL!

I can sit and stare at 'em for hours. Each stroke, a masterpiece. Every bit of paint a subtle nuance of lightplay.

Truly amazing.

I bet they're worth a hundred grand by now.

[bleedingheart]

28. you almost made me spit up tea on my monitor

[DS1]

29. You lie!

Real Kinkade owners know that Kinkade receipts are so full of light and glory that they burn their way through any sort of puny human safe - and instead must be given their own room where they can fly free as a swan - should they ever choose to do so, which sadly, they don't, but YOU LIE!

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. No, you're the liar, you art-collecting wannabe

Just because you can't afford a Kinkade, and have to settle for faux-Kinkades doesn't mean you have the right to come here and attack me.

You are forced to "collect" the lesser artists, like G. Harvey:

http://www.christcenteredmall.com/stores/art/harvey/a_time_of_grace.htm

http://www.christcenteredmall.com/stores/art/harvey/across_quiet_waters.htm

and Jim Daly



And Terry Redlin, who has a limited edition of only 29,500:



And Nathan Green:


http://www.christcenteredmall.com/stores/art/greene/family_worship.htm

And William Phillips:




You sad, sad loser. If you were a decent Christian, God would bless you with the money to buy better Christ-centered artwork. In fact, you would be blessed with so much money, you could afford to support such Christ-centered ministries as Fred Phelps and Jerry Falwell and others who are keeping America safe from the homosexual and feminist agendas. But you're a loser, so God gives you nothing but cheaper art that won't ever appreciate in value, by artists who WON'T handpaint each print in order that it matches your Christ-centered sofa in your Christ-centered and Christ-appropriate living room where your family engages in Christ-centered activities, like shopping and spending money to keep the terorists away from our beloved, Christ-centered God-created country.

Yep. You're a capital L Loser.

[DS1]

43. But Rabrrrrrr

If you were truly one of God's flock, you would not belittle me so for I am a lamb of God. You, under the guidance of our infinitely glorious Lord and Savior would turn the other cheek.

Yep. You're a Kinkade collecting capital H Hypocrite. May God have mercy on your soul.

[Rabrrrrrr]

47. Oh, you're such a poseur

You know I'm in the right. Just admit it. Your "church" is so far into apostasy it isn't even worth mentioning. That's what my minister said.

And we this by the fruits of your "faith" - if you were faithful, you would be rich, and you could afford REAL art.

Obviously, your impoverished state is proof that you are not worthy of He who came to redeem God's chosen. jesus did not come to save everyone - only those who properly have faith in Him. And Jesus Himself said that, if you are faithful, you shall lead perfect lives of wealth, health, and happiness, and that you would only associate with people of equal faith.

Which in my case is true, because Kinkade is a man of perfect faith - you can see it in his artwork - and I associate with him.

You don't.

Nyah. And I'd ask for blessings on your soul, but you've already given it away to Satan, so I can only distance myself from you so that I am not tainted. I shall hide behind Kinkade's "Savior Bridge to Lilac Patriot Garden".

[FuzzySlippers]

48. Rabrrrrrr, why don't you just come out and admit

you're Kinkade? Is it because you're afraid once we know you're a billionaire, we'll all be hitting you up for money?

[DS1]

49. "Savior Bridge to Lilac Patriot Garden" is a wonderful work,

and I congratulate you for so overwhelmingly taking possession of it. Yet, it's never going to be as good as "My Rapture Comes Equipped with Side Airbags", which I must point out is printed on the back of my special edition Church-subsidized Herman Miller Aeron (figure A)

A.

Your Novakulan argument continues to suggest my being less holy than thou. Kinkade truly is a man of perfect faith, it is why I nurtured his style with adequate funding and a steady supply of smack.

Please forward further donations to:

Universal Life Church
P.O. Box 165828
Irving, TX 75016-5828

Good day, Sir.

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. OMG! You have the "Phat Jesus Has My Back, Homey" Herman Miller Aeron?!

DAMN YOU! I was waitlisted, but never got one!

maybe you are more holy than me!

Perhaps I have been barking up the wrong tree. Perhaps I need to evaluate my own faith. O Woe is me!

I shall go and study "Rapture Awaiting the Appropriately Christian-dressed Children Waving Flags in the Field of Hanging Wisteria and Ivy with Lighthouse and Small Wooden English Cottage Door By The Creek of God's Tears Weeping for American Tragedy As Jesus Holds the Tattered American Flag In Crucifix Form", which I happen to have the original of.

[Phillycat]

32. *chokes on diet Pepsi*

Ow. Bubbles in nose hurt.

[progmom]

54. My old boss spent that much on ONE Kinkade

And he bragged about it.

Apparently, there are different grades of Kinkade "paintings". The ones where he put a few dabs of paint on the canvas himself to individualize them are apparently worth more.

:puke:

Makes my brain hurt.

[Rabrrrrrr]

56. Yes, it's awful

And for the most part, the ones that have "paint" on them are painted by one of Kinkade's "expert technicians" or whateverthefuck he calls them; the people who are "trained" and work in his "galleries" to put a few brushstrokes of actual paint on a print which are then called psuedo-originals (well, that's not it - but, to his credit, he doesn't straight out call them originals, but some kind of word that means "original-like" - he might use the term "original print", which is just the sort of lovely double-speak you'd expect from a "Christian Patriot").

[katmondoo]

27. Yuck

[cali]

7. Don't get me started.

He's one of my pet peeves. His paintings are sentimental, hideous, and more than slightly sinister. They remind me freepers and mass murderers and everything ugly in our culture.

[Phillycat]

35. Sort of like this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2170080

[ernstbass]

9. Tacky tacky tacky

[Lex]

10. Yes, and I love velvet paintings of dogs playing poker

and those Precious Moments thingies too.

NOT.

[Anakin Skywalker]

11. Technique-wise, he's a'right.

But the religiosity and the themes, I can't say I like them. The themes are very one-dimensional.

[jobycom]

12. They are somewhere between wallpaper and Michael Bolton

They don't excite me, but they don't really piss me off, either. They are just someone else's taste, and that doesn't hurt me in any way.

[mcscajun]

14. About half a step up from "Paint-by-Numbers"

and wildly sentimental, mass-produced, emotionally manipulative crap.

Oh...did I mention I can't STAND him calling himself "Painter of Light"?

Bas-TARD!

[slestak]

15. They're not even paintings

I saw a piece on Kincade and his art factory on 60 Minutes a few years ago. He has gigantic printing presses that print reproductions of his paintings, and then he has a staff of "artists" who dab a bit of paint on parts of the prints (some paint pigments cannot be reproduced accurately with tradition 4-color printing). Then they stick them in frames and ship them off to the galleries in the mall.

There are actually people who invest thousands of dollars in these things. 60 Minutes showed a couple that had so many, they didn't have the wall space to hang them all up.

And yes, from what I understand, he's a big-time fundie.

[LibertyLover]

16. Bleech

The first time I saw Kinkade's work my first thought was that he learned to paint using the paint-by-numbers kits. They are so sickeningly overdone. Not my style. (I should add that my appreciation for paintings ends at roughly 1640 or so.) And then I noticed that a fair number had white clapboard churches highlighted in halos of light. That made me start to wonder. Just before Election Day I got a piece of drivel from a local fundy church inviting me to pay for the opportunity to meet Kinkade and hear him talk about religion and his art and politics. No thanks. With that piece of information I figured I knew all I needed to Thomas Kinkade - right wing, Bush-supporting, fundy hack artist.

[hyphenate]

17. Not really

I prefer more angst ridden artists myself, like Van Gogh. I like Monet and other such artists.

Kinkade paintings are too much in a certain niche. They're like oh-so neat and without any real meaning. At first glance they're nice, but they're without true character.

On the other hand, I like Shim Schimmel's work--he combines two of my great loves--space and animals. If you ever get a chance to google Shim Schimmel's art, it's really quite extraordinary.


Made boo-boo--it should be Schim Schimmel, with the c in both.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

18. I give you...

SomethingAwful's Photoshop Phriday contest with the Painter of Light

Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for any of these images, and some of them might be in very poor taste, not for children, or not safe for work, so be warned.

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

Still, there's some funny stuff here. I wonder if the website got sued?

[bleedingheart]

22. oh those are funny...

[UpsideDownFlag]

23. ha, that's fabulous. i particularly like this one:

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

36. My favorite so far...

[UpsideDownFlag]

37. I love how it perfectly juxtaposes the quiet, docile scene with Sauron's

evil eye.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

39. And the Eye shows an internal strength...

That Kinkaid really brings forth in bold, strong strokes of the brush. The emphasis he puts into the lines of the tower show an inner turmoil in his soul that threatens to engulf us all in a pit of shadowy fire.

Mmmm...shadowy fire.

[Spinzonner]

19. There's more than one ?

[bleedingheart]

20. My hubby likes his paintings...

but yet he also likes far finer pieces of artwork.

So for our anniversary one year I bought him a small Kinkade which was scene of a garden....since I am an amateur gardener...it isn't as bad as some of his other works...but I don't really like it...but in marriage...it is about compromise...

[Justitia]

57. mine does too, finds them peaceful, but he's tired of them

since we've moved, he's pretty much deep-sixed the ones we have.

[RevolutionaryActs]

21. Ew lord no! There's a gallery of his shit here, why me... WHY ME?!

[Sanity Claws]

24. They're garbage

They're fuzzy versions of paint by number.

[bif]

26. Some of the worst shit I've ever seen

Although I like the Farked versions. Those were pretty funny.

[Cobalt Violet]

30. He ain't got anything on me!

[No Mandate Here.]

31. They look nice in the dark, in a mall somewhere.

[UpsideDownFlag]

33. great Screen name, btw....

i've only ever seen them in malls.

[No Mandate Here.]

34. Thanks. I guess I was anxious to change my old name.

[parkening]

38. He's a businessman

making a boat-load of money. This is the American Dream. I can't say I have a big problem with that. An artist, however bad and corny, that makes money is alright in my book.

[UpsideDownFlag]

40. look into where his money goes. nt

[parkening]

41. His to spend

where he wants.

[BlueJazz]

44. I have to admit I LOVE his Oil Paintings.

The rich oils on the canvas makes for a much warmer fire.

[Left Is Write]

45. No. Not my style at all.

edited to add: As far as aesthetic appeal, I put his stuff right up there with Precious Moments.

[meganmonkey]

46. Eeeewwwww...

I'm embarrassed for even knowing what his paintings look like.

[PartyPooper]

50. Such an American icon, he is! He is a tremendous breath of "fresh air"

for all of us art conisewers!

I say, "BRAVO!" :hi:

:D

[UpsideDownFlag]

53. 'conisewers', lol. nt

[jdots]

52. he is to art as Bush is to presidents

may they both leave the building.i could 10 pages of how i hate anything Kinkade but i would rather eat a urinal cake than picture his sickening dog shit on canvas.

[crispini]

55. Once again proving that it is only necessary to MENTION

Thomas Kincade to produce an Extremely Funny Thread. Kudos to Rabrrrr and DS1. My side hurts! :D