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My Grandma would poop on it...
I don't know guys - I could really see a 1960's Keene "Big-Eyed" poodle on skis painting in my bathroom.
Especially if I could find one in black velvet.
I just painted this little ditty. What do you think? It's mostly white because it's snowing in the background.
I had never heard of the guy or seen any of his art, so i googled some reviews, here is an excerpt from one I really liked:
"It is the pervasive acceptance of and clamor for the materialistic manifestations of Kinkade's rather limited artistic vision—the sanctification, if you will, of his penchant for depopulated and nonsensical rural scenery—that serves to only increase the hair-lifting horror that lurks beneath his sun-dappled streams and glowing rustic manses.
Yes, horror. Horror of the worst kind, the horror wrought from juxtaposing innocuous items or idyllic surroundings with sudden ghastly consequences. The kind of thought-erasing horror that comes from watching a huge cylindrical brush used in an automatic car wash smash through your windshield. The kind of throat-parching, temple-pounding, sweaty-knees horror that comes from watching the stitched simpleton's smile on a Raggedy Ann doll suddenly gape open into a bloody drooling leer.
Do not misunderstand me, here. Kinkade's art does not evoke Clown Fear, or Marionette Fear, or Dick Cheney Fear, or Disney Audio-Animatronic Fear—I'm talking about that Mother of All Fears: When Paradise Turns into Hell.
For this Halloween, if you want to scare the dickens out of discerning adults and impressionable children, forget about the works of Poe, King, or Koontz.
Just take a good look at the artwork of Thomas Kinkade.
Upon close examination, Kinkade's rural dystopias appear to possess the following common themes:
1) Hellish glow seen emanating from every closed window to every sealed-up cottage, clocktower, inn, horse barn, church, etc. All of Kinkade's structures seem consumed from within by raging infernos. What might be laughed off as artistic excess suddenly trickles icily down your spine when you realize that Kinkade's rustic incinerators are operating at full tilt regardless of the time of day, prevailing weather conditions, and the particular season depicted in the painting!
2) All of his structures bear multiple chimneys that are exhaling thin, vertically-stretched spires of exhaust smoke which are indicative of extremely hot fires within, and of virtually no air movement without. Again, these chimneys are operating in all seasons and weather conditions. Why are the fires burning so hotly all the time? What's cooking? You don't want to know!
3) There is an inexplicable absence of people, despite the presence of livestock, abandoned agricultural implements, raging chimney fires, what have you. In Kinkade's peaceful landscapes, it seems as if a sort of aestheticically-directed neutron bomb had detonated, leaving standing only the charming buildings, bucolic beasts and majestic landscape
There is something terrible going on in these paintings."
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All this picture needs is baby moses floating down the river.Quote:
Originally Posted by HankStamper
Schmear, please give me permission to have that printed for my ski house!
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Originally Posted by lph
thats good shit right there....
thomas kincade is fucking HORRIBLE...
i take shits that are more artistic than his garbage
Just wondering can you bend slate as it looks like in the painting. Would be a neat trick. Looks like he took a hatched roof and turned it into slate.Quote:
Originally Posted by HankStamper
I take it this guy pushes out the limited edition prints and people buy them up cause the last set went way up in value. The market for this stuff will eventually crash.
is that a slate mailbox as well?
http://www.puzzlehouse.com/images/we...laccottage.jpg
The ovens are burning, burning...and what is that liquid seeping out from under the front door and down the walkway?!?
I can almost hear the screams of the damned as they are forced into the cauldrons.
The horror.
The horror.
He's going to hang it next to his black velvet painting of Elvis
Last time I checked, the only thing that could bend slate like that is the power of SATAN.
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I guess he has a factory of artists that reproduce some of his originals (or maybe just add paint to reproductions?).Quote:
Originally Posted by DougW
Anyway, the gig is that they're not "prints," because they're all actually painted by real people. Maybe people buy them because they think it's original work? I dunno.
I've always thought they looked like Ice described-- like each little cottage is a portal to the fires of hell itself.
You know you've hit it big when your paintings get on Glade air fresheners...
http://www.glade.com/i/prod_candle_glisteningsnow.jpg
The Glade air fresheners are sweet. Bought a set and going to keep them wrapped as collector's items. Great stocking stufers too.
Sorry to highjack, but I always liked HANNE LORE KOEHLER
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/5526/skier16wo.jpg
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/8756/white5gq.jpg
I think he adds small amounts of paint to prints (what he refers to as "adding the magic" to the print). It enhances the light eminating from the pits of hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cornholio
Even the frames used for his paintings are garish.
None of the kinkaid pictures posted remind me of skiing because they are flat, unless you are talking about cross country skiing. For some reason the mountains are so beautiful and fulfilling in person to me that I have never found art that replicates that for me. It is always old school euro type close ups of skiers which I like or mountain landscape pictures that have an unnatural etherial light that makes them look like a bible illustration. I am curious if there are any of you out there that know of a really good Ansel Adams type artist that does good mountain paintings. Shmear painter of white aside.
the snow glistens, the sun shines, and kinkade's art is horrible...
Kincade = Beanie Babies for adults
hahahaha..........true
There are some really good Japanese woodblock prints of snow scenes. My favorite woodblock artist is Kawase Hasui. Here are a few examples of his work:
http://www.floatingworld.com/works/WPKH09_l.jpg
http://www.floatingworld.com/works/WPKH15_l.jpg
http://www.floatingworld.com/works/WPKH73_l.jpg
I've got this one hanging above my bed:
http://www.floatingworld.com/works/XHKS01_l.jpg
These photos don't really do them justice, though. I think this is true art, but to each his own, I guess.
Yup, really nice. Gotta ski Japan someday. I heard they never ski in the woods because they're afraid of their ancestors or something. Could you imagine a maggot mini over there? They'd probably run us out of the country, especially if Brett came. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by The AD
You mean Brurred Erevens?Quote:
Originally Posted by SheRa
The one and only.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Bump. Kincaid embodies ski porn.
Thomas Kincaide sucks donkey nutz. I have never seen anyone paint anything more obnoxious than his shit.
Death to Kinkade. Seriously. Can't believe he has a gallery in Beaver Creek (not sure what other ski towns).
Once again, I am reminded and drawn to Kinkade for inspiration for this upcoming ski season, in fact I recently changed my desktop background to a sweet, older-style Kinkade. Heading up to Whistler this weekend and hoping one of the art galleries in the Village sell them. Tired of the gallery in downtown Seattle, and there's a salesperson there who has started to freak me out.
Hanga prints are my favorite. Just wish I could afford them.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Chiura Obata and Hiroshi Yoshida did amazing stuff outside of Japan.
http://www.hanga.com/gallery.cfm?ID=62
http://www.hanga.com/gallery.cfm?ID=1
the sad truth is that we all know who he is and his paintings. how does something like this happen? so many awesome unknown artists out there and here we have this crap mass marketed.
very creepy..Quote:
Originally Posted by bklyntrayc
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Several things are glaringly obvious here.Quote:
Originally Posted by HankStamper
a) All 12 of your posts are about Kincaid.
b) You really want his love child. Butt-love child, rather...
c) You're the reason we HAVE all of the crappy galleries like this in ski towns...
d) You have a 'sweet, older-style Kinkade' on the same screen as a TGR thread?!? :cussing:
and e) Screw the salesperson in Seattle, you're starting to freak US out.
Solution: www.gapicski.com...
I hope you're driving down one of those snowy roads in your idyllic little town with your perfect little family, in your 'ultimate driving machine', and you miss a corner, crash straight into a Yankee Candle shop, and have your platinum-series volants rip through your in-car ski bag, straight into your temple.
Happy turns.
STFU.Quote:
Originally Posted by HankStamper
Split. Kook.
Kinkade=Ass Clown
This is our generation's velvet elvis painting. Expect to see them in tag sales by the highway in 20 years also....
Dead on, boomer.
Pure cheese-steeze
I will be laughing my way to the bank when my five Kincades significantly appreciate over the next 25 years. 60 Minutes did a great special on him, and when he dies, their value will go through the roof. I hope this forum (and snow for that matter!) is still around in 25 years.
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Originally Posted by HankStamper
Hey GIRLYMAN
http://img33.exs.cx/img33/8276/ArnoldSTFU.jpg
Ze Tomas Kinkade is for ze HOMOS! No vonder you like it!!!
Hey Arnold, YOU shut the fuck up. The arnold "pump you up" jokes were funny like 20 years ago. Seriously, you're a fucking DORK.