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Google some news stories about Kinkade from early 2006 (Los Angeles Times). Not only is Tommy the “painter of light”, but he is also the “wizzer of Pooh”. Look it up – its worth the read.

Okay, I am responding to a really old post, but the whole Thomas Kincade topic is a hot button issue in my family. I think his attempt is great (go Christian artists) but that his work is not what I consider fireplace mantel worthy. Yet my wanna be religious in-laws gave us a $3000 Kincade as a wedding present AFTER we politely made it clear we do not care for his paintings. Why? Because he is a Christain and they felt they had to give us something “relgious”. Will I be covered in glicee in my glorious body?

Great site, first visit today.

Gaaah, I hate Kinkaid’s stuff. He’s been quoted as saying he tries to paint what the world would look like without the Fall. Yet churches and the Cross are prominent in his landscapes. Hmmmm….

My friend said she wanted a TK over her couch in her new house, and I begged her not to get one. I told her that her daughter would make fun of it like we made fun of our parents’ card-playing dogs and paintings on velvet. She cried.

thomas kinkade is one of the things that is wrong with the world. not the church, the WORLD. what makes art “Christian” anyway? seriously, it’s like paying for a thousand dollar hallmark card.

Kincade’s popular stuff might be cheesey but he did do a “pleine eir” or some fretalian spelled word collection that was a colection of impessionistic styled work, I really enjoyed it and if I was prone to empty my bank account to purchase mass produced art sold at the mall, I would own one.

I founded a startup that was housed in a place that was used by TK’s company to duplicate some of his work.

It was funny to walk in day after day and see dozens of his insipid prints lined up for shipment to hundreds of sheeple worldwide.

Yes, I know, I’m insulting those people who genuinely like their TK’s. Well what can I say. Art is nothing if it can’t take criticism.

And criticizing TK’s work is definitely the Godly thing to do.

His art looks like what flew out of my mouth when I ate too many skittles as a kid.

You want real Christian art? Look up Ilia Repin.

Oh, and Thomas Kinkade is a drunk:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/997420001.html?dids=997420001:997420001&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+5%2C+2006&author=Kim+Christensen&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=A.1&desc=Dark+Portrait+of+a+%60Painter+of+Light%27

Okay, so I found something I find funny on his website.
One: He did a painting of NASCAR. Somehow NASCAR doesn’t say Jesus to me.
Two: You can buy nightlights of his work. It’s true. But the best part is the advertisement for them “These beautiful nightlights are sure to brighten any room in the house.” Then, there is a a smaller picture of the same nightlight with the caption “Nightlights can brighten up a room”. Hehe. I don’t know. I thought it was funny.

As an artist, I cannot stand Kinkade’s hollow artwork. Although it might sort of look pretty, there’s no substance AND it’s picturing this Kinkade-utopian world. I really hope heaven does not look like that.

It might be uncool to say this here, but I like Kinkade’s cottage art works – from the first time I ever saw it I like it. I’m not very religious and I have no knowledge about art. I just like pretty things and I like the way his art makes me feel and smile when I see it. I can’t afford an original piece but I have a calendar or two of his work.

Wow, today is my first visit to this site, and these post are telling the world that we (Christians as a whole) like Styper, Psalty and Thomas Kinkade? I don’t know if I can read further becuase I am feeling quite nauseous.

Wow, thats so funny. And way true, my dad has almost ten paintings by Thomas Kinkade and I never understood why. It was always nice, but I never found it that special. BUt now it's all becoming clear.

I really don't have anything against Kinkade myself, but I used to work in frame design and I remember that our least favorite projects were Kinkade's. Why? They weren't hard to design for, so it wasn't that, and usually they were some of our more expensive projects, so it was good money, but the customers themselves always seemed to be our rudest, crankiest, most demanding customers. I could never figure out why this was. Especially since they were usually the church or cross pictures. It always astounded me. Admittedly though there was one exception that I remember and they were actually my all time favorite customers.

I have to say I think his cottage paintings are very pretty, and might actually hang one over the couch one day. But they aren't the greatest art in the world or anything, and he's definitely over-exposed as a brand. Sometimes art makes you think, and sometimes it lets you escape to an idealized world…and both of those things are ok as long as you know which is which.

Random note: Thomas Kinkade is such an awesome Christian that all of his children have the middle name "Christian". I wish I were joking.

My tribute to Thomas Kinkade
http://www.threadless.com/submission/251102/Firel...

I absolutely adore thomas kinkade's works. Even those he didn't personally do. Wish I could afford one. I like just going in the stores in the mall and looking at them (especially when i can have them raise and dim the lights to see the very cool visual effects of the lights in the windows). Good times. They make me nostalgic for some reason.

I guess I'll be the unpopular one and stick up for the mega succesful artist.

So what are all your beefs with him:
1) Too generic, I'm too cool an art critic to like Thomas Kinkade! (His style is mainstream, my stuff is better, blah blah blah…haters…)
2) Too commerical, I'm more spiritual than Thomas Kinkade and can obviously tear down his works for a lack of deep spiritual meaning!
3) Too successful! He has 2000 stores, and puzzles and nightlights! Odd, especially on a page written by a guy coming out with a book. So if his book sells like hotcakes and he makes all sorts of $$ then I guess it'll become cool to hate on him? (I hope this doesn't happen! The hating on that is, I hope you sell a lot of copies. I won't hate on you when you realise nightlights and puzzles. I mean hey, you already have booty, God, Booty buttons)

Uncool and Thomas Kinkade in the same sentence–noooooooo! Uncooth would be the right pairing. It's not art, it's kitche.

I'm a big fan of art, but Kinkade is about the same as Rococo art- a little bit cloying. Too much of something that really had potential.