Comments on: I Love Art.

By: houseofmayhem

houseofmayhem — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:10:30 +0000

Or exploding chickens… :p

>>>>>>>>>>>

or explodingdog.com

By: Nymphalidae

Nymphalidae — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:49:48 +0000

I’m here to rain on the “awww kids!” parade – I don’t really think your child’s art belongs on a blog like this. Of course it’s not my blog, so really, do what you want. I’m just sayin’.

By: Wogglebug

Wogglebug — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:23:40 +0000

As near as I can tell, Kincade’s paintings are a form of iconography. That is, they’re a collection of symbols designed to evoke certain feelings or memories. The houses with lots of light shining from the windows and smoke rising from the rooves symbolize the inhabitants’ prosperous activity. The houses’ architecture and their setting in saturated-color, perfectly tended untrodden lawns and flowerbeds symbolize rural safety and peace. Plus land of your own, without anyone pitching their litter into it, is another marker of prosperity. And I suspect there’s also a reaction against the steel/concrete/asphalt/plastic surfaces which fill so much of the less-affluent parts of cities.

By: BStu

BStu — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:20:06 +0000

So Christopher is taking a page out of Kinkade’s book, then?

By: car

car — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:33:16 +0000

Here’s a story about some of his antics. Although, one almost has to grudgingly admire him for this one : “urinating in public – [...] on a model of Winnie the Pooh at a Disneyland hotel. “This one’s for you, Walt,” Mr Sheppard claimed the artist said as he did so.”

By: Jaclyn

Jaclyn — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:09:20 +0000

Two lousy bucks? Tell him to aim higher. Where do I send the dough?

By: car

car — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:11:58 +0000

Thanks for the links! I’m glad I wasn’t just hallucinating the redone images. :) Kincade is also a real asshole, from what I understand. There have been several news stories about him harassing employees, harassing women, etc.

By: greensmile

greensmile — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:46:40 +0000

kinkade can also bore you to death with the symmetry of his dwellings. has he ever painted a real house?

By: emjaybee

emjaybee — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:12:00 +0000

flea, set him up a paypal account, and I’ll fork over a few bucks myself. We have a new bigger house and I have about five pics total with which to cover the space…and my son isn’t old enough to paint yet.

What bugs me about Kinkade is that, if you like soft, imprssionistic scenes to go with your couch…well, Lord, there’s a million great prints by actual Impressionists that you can get for peanuts. My suspicion is that the reason Kinkade appeals to most of his clientele is his overt God-iosity, in that many of his paintings come pre-inscribed with Bible verses–though I am not at all sure what the Bible has to do with blurry hypercolored pastoral scenes. Anyway, he’s marketed as an Amurican Christian Painter(tm), and you buy him so that you don’t have to risk letting the works of decadent Frenchmen like Van Gogh into your Amurican Christian home.

As the Fark links show, Kinkade is so bland that adding any note of discordance…nuclear clouds, dinosaurs, murder scenes…actually improves them, and gives them a story. As is, they have no story, except “wow, those are some bright blue delphiniums, there.”

By: flea

flea — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:54:52 +0000

Thank you all very, very much for your excellent taste in children’s art! I read Christopher some of your comments, and he got very excited.

He says to tell you all that for two dollars, he will print his artwork, sign it, and mail it to you. A steal, if you ask me.