Thomas Kinkade
I found this old article and found it very well written. Fellow art lovers might enjoy this. I was touching on some ideas earlier here about liberal arts should be intimidated by Kinkade because he has kicked their asses. It is interesting to think of Kinkade as an relative of Jeff Koons and Warhol...he might be a freak or the worlds most intelligent artist and marketer. I say this because it is easy to forget he worked for Ralph Bashki went to Berekely in the 70's to study art and chances are...he might have been quite the hipster and forward thinker at one point...he was a world class drinker, partier and sometimes I just wonder if he isn't hanging out in Cote dAzur with Koons and Schnabel.
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If yer like it yer like it. Love 'punk art' from the 70's n love ol' matchstick Lowry too. Also love classical art n action comic art. Just get a bit pissed off when some dick puts a pile of bricks in a gallery or half a sheep in formaldehide n says it's art. No it's not. It's shite. So there.
Dunno Kincade but if he drank a lot he might have been good or he might have just been drunk.
Heh heh and I agree with you 4Dins. I think when it comes down to it, people like what they like. I think what I am struggling here with when I post these things about art 4Dins is the idealistic notion that an artist in huntergatherer days had it good, incorporated inot the culture, made shit for each other shared art and food and handywork and the art was a spiritual language...which art making is that for me. It is a language and a tracking/reading system. Its for entertainment, pleasure, challenge and looking at various versions of "reality" and ultimately it is story telling, talking to our friends and neighbours.
Andthat is why Kinkade is a huge sucess. He is in 10 million homes, its nuts, iits huntergatherer scale!
and its because people like to look at his stuff. 4dins I have a feeling you would puke if you saw hi art ha ha but I don't know.
I love the punk rock art too, I loved the guy who did album covers I forgot his name, Bubbles? He did Iggy pop and so many Public Emmnemy? I must go google him...probably died of heroin overdose I seem to recall or "artistic differences"
hey I also came to art through comic books, illustrations in Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale books, and cereal boxes...when I was a kid my parents went through this phase where they had a bout five years of actually being hip and urban and cool and we went to all kinds of galleries. They had lovely parties and stuff. And I remember seeing thes huge paintings and loving them as a little kid and realizing ah art can be so many things...it was never just classical for me.
I am nervous because actually, ethically and aethetically I have WAY more in common with Kinkade than I do with so-called contemporary artists...yes like the guys who put a sheep in formaldehyde( that is Damian Hurst) and don't worry about the guy who put bricks in a gallery. he got his comeuppance, he was charged with murdering his wife. His name is Carl Andre.
The fuedal mafia also called "art world" seems to have protected him and he got off...women still protest that his wifes death is symbolic for womens place in the art world she was an up and coming talented artist of sorts...
I was blown away byt he interview linked here to hear Kinkade challenge the Whitney, one of the funniest things I've heard. now i also think it sounds like a kind of civil war on art and culture too though. I don't agree that there isn't room for the Whitney, the Whitney like any venture in our culture has lost its way.
Everything has lost its way...is Kinkade the answer no...his work symbolizes a peasant time and a time that never existed...a way of living and community cut off from urban life, from young people from dynamic relationship between different ways of living...and I think the future holds a life where we will all need to fit into cities and not these suburban dream lands where we need cars and drugs run rampant. We might give up suburbs to protect the wilderness and move to cities...
well I ramble...
whats new about that...
um, I think he's an ultra-right-wing born again Christian.
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