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If you loathe this blight on art and society as much as I do, you're going to love this story...
Dark clouds gather over 'Painter of Light' Entrepreneur artist who hangs in one in 20 US homes accused of fraud and drunken antics Art critics have long dismissed [Thomas Kinkade's] work as a kitsch crime against aesthetics. But now the world has grown even more "unsympathetic and complex" for the artist, who describes himself as a devout Christian and has trademarked his "Painter of Light" sobriquet. In court documents and other testimony, he has been accused of sexual harassment, fraudulent business practices and bizarre incidents of drunkenness including a habit of "ritual territory marking" that involves urinating in public places.
In a 3,000-word expose of Thomas Kinkade in The Los Angeles Times of March 5, 2006, Kim Christensen depicted Kinkade as a ruthless businessman, who has been accused of dishonesty and stock manipulation. Also described in excruciating detail is his lurid and bizarre behavior that is 180-degrees from the hearth-hugging, God-fearing gentle soul that shines through his art.
Included are stories of Kinkade's alleged heavy drinking, disrupting a Sigfried & Roy show in Las Vegas, cussing out the wife one of his executives that tried to help him after he fell off a bar stool, fondling a female guest at a signing party, and urinating on a Winnie the Pooh statue at a Disneyland Hotel and yelling, "This one's for you, Walt."
—Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian (UK), March 25, 2006
glassman
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he's the McDonalds of the art world...LOL
jordanreed
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Included are stories of Kinkade's alleged heavy drinking, disrupting a Sigfried & Roy show in Las Vegas, cussing out the wife one of his executives that tried to help him after he fell off a bar stool, fondling a female guest at a signing party, and urinating on a Winnie the Pooh statue at a Disneyland Hotel and yelling, "This one's for you, Walt."
whats the bad part?
BuyTex
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he's still painting...
jordanreed
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lol
Team Sleep
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He's also got one of those classic child molester mustache's...
Kinkade is so bad he makes Bob Ross look like one of the Dutch master's.
The Bigfoot
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Kincade isn't worth this post let alone what he charges for his prints.
He's even worse that Terry Redlin for franchising his art.
Les Kouba, now there's an artist!
The Bigfoot
HILANDER
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quote:Originally posted by Team Sleep: He's also got one of those classic child molester mustache's...
Kinkade is so bad he makes Bob Ross look like one of the Dutch master's.
Was Bob Ross the happy tree guy?
Team Sleep
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You got it! When I was a little kid I used to love watching that afro-sporting pothead. He was the best thing PBS ever put on the air.
The only thing I could never figure out is why he refused to change his light blue button down shirt. He wore the same shirt for like 20 years...
HILANDER
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I used to love watching that guy too. It was a shame when he died. I remember as a kid he motivated me to paint a bunch of "happy trees" down the side of my parents home. Dad, didn't appreciate the "happy trees" like I did.
bdgee
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This guy can't be all bad, look at this:
"... urinating on a Winnie the Pooh statue at a Disneyland Hotel and yelling, "This one's for you, Walt."
Now that an aptly applied critisism.
I didn't know there was a "child molester style".
"He's also got one of those classic child molester mustache's..."
So, you can spot them just because of the way the genes make the mustash sprout. Very useful, particularly if your into stereotyping and cheap money saving quicky trials.
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