Scumbag artist Thomas Kinkade exposed

I thought that was how he lightens his paintings.

Maybe he is making an editorial comment to his patrons!

ok, but is there a street wide enough for a winter sleigh ride?

We just pull down our pants and slide on the ice.

Oh, you A2Kers can't leave Kinkade alone. Sorry he is taking up so much of your time.

His "canvas transfers" used to be done right over the gallery I was using to obtain art for clients and eventually worked for about a year. The process is cheap. They take a very low quality of canvas, treat an ordinary photo-offset print (a poster, basically) with chemicals, peel off the ink and mount it onto the canvas. Something like applying gold leaf. The inks are mostly vegetable dyes and extremely unstable. They will fade and change color even if they aren't exposed to much UV. Then Kinkade's elves (an industry euphemism for assistants), not Kinkade himself, daub paint on the canvas. The finished product is about $75.00 at the most. Then a cheap plastic (that's right, plastic) frame is installed, about $25.00 to $50.00 cost. The retail markup is a total rip-off, right around a $1000. for up to $3000. for supposedly sold out units. These "paintings" will not hold up for more than ten years before they begin to change color and fade. His signature isn't worth more than $15.00.

The elves also paint most of his paintings -- he starts them and they follow behind finishing the work. It's manufactured art.

He's lost several suits in the past not brought by gallery owners but consumers who were duped into paying for what was falsely sold to them as "real art." Some dopey people bought multiple pieces for "investment."

He is, of course, laughing all the way to the bank just like Tony Soprano.

BTW, he is now using the giclee process which is a computer scanned print which is then programmed to guide a row of ink sprayers, producing a print onto a canvas. The same elves get busy and daub the prints up with paint. The giclee process is suspect as far as longevity. Many prints, especially on canvas, that I have come across can experience seperation between the ink layer and the substrate. This means that eventually pieces of "painting" will fall off onto the floor. It could be like a jigsaw puzzle. The duped consumer can take crazy glue and reafix the pieces.

He's is known as the Pet Rock of the art industry.

Incidentally, those Kinkade suckers who are tired of his quaint little lighted cottages has now introduced his "plein air series." He has trained his elves to produce paintings that are supposedly executed on site (the meaning of plein air, also previously known as Barbizon). They never leave the studio -- they are using photographs and copying them.

Not only that, they are butt ugly:




Surprise, surprise, surprise. They are his slowest sellers.

a Kinkade collector states Her last sentence is sort of true. I am amazed at how people cannot tell bad art. I think that "the hustle" by his gallery partners is a practiced sales pitch that , like high pressure rel estate brokers, want you to believe his stuff is really important as art.

Like Keith Haring, hes kind of a joke whose time will end.

you can get your pictures to look like his if you have Photosuite.

It is the option called oil painting .. or something like that..

My mother-in-law did a Kinkade needlepoint pillow. I think he translates well into the craft market and should stay there.

exactly so

I wouldn't even buy Christmas cards with such tacky schmaltzy images

He does also has Christmas cards.

The only product I haven't seen are Thomas Kinkade toilet seat covers.

The fact that Kincade compares himself to Christ tells me he has a huge ego. He's just another cheesy artist using Christianity to gather the flock to buy his paintings. Nothing about guys like him surprise me anymore.

That's not merely ego -- that's psychosis. Remind you of any world leader?

A couple of 'em...Bush, Cheney and Castro.

God must have told Thomas Kinkade, a painter with limited talent, to become an expert marketer. He covered the number of paintings that had to be manufactured in order to really make money by hiring people to paint them. Just because he has elves doesn't make him Santa Claus. God must have told Bush how to market a war.

Id love to see his ass in some prison where hed get all the attention his ego needs,.

Knowing the extra-legal, but no illegal (although it should be) practices by the junk art purveyors, the only thing that will ultimately stop them is that those affluent enough to buy these over-priced manufactured "artworks" will get at least a limited art education to know that caveat emptor means what it says. There have been wingnuts on this forum trying to rationalize what this P. T. Barnum marketer has done in selling basically valueless "artworks" and duping an uneducate public in the name of free enterprise. That means that Tony Soprano is not a crook.