[…] I don’t want to give anyone the idea I’m happy he’s passed away; I just find his life and career a curiosity, as well as a comment on that nebulous thing we call “art.” One essayist, Joan Didion, summed up why his work could appeal to some readers who enjoy the same sorts of books I do: “A Kinkade painting was typically rendered in slightly surreal pastels. It typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel. Every window was lit, to lurid effect, as if the interior of the structure might be on fire.” I guess that’s why I found this image so appealing. […]
Wasn’t he also at the point where he wasn’t even painting his work anymore? I thought I had read somewhere that he had people copying his style and he would only pause long enough to sign it.
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June 21, 2009 at 17:18
I love it!
December 22, 2009 at 10:20
gosh! kalata oi!
February 9, 2011 at 14:36
See folks? Wrap up your foodscraps properly or varmints will be attracted.
April 7, 2012 at 01:02
[…] I don’t want to give anyone the idea I’m happy he’s passed away; I just find his life and career a curiosity, as well as a comment on that nebulous thing we call “art.” One essayist, Joan Didion, summed up why his work could appeal to some readers who enjoy the same sorts of books I do: “A Kinkade painting was typically rendered in slightly surreal pastels. It typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel. Every window was lit, to lurid effect, as if the interior of the structure might be on fire.” I guess that’s why I found this image so appealing. […]
April 9, 2012 at 05:43
Wasn’t he also at the point where he wasn’t even painting his work anymore? I thought I had read somewhere that he had people copying his style and he would only pause long enough to sign it.
April 9, 2012 at 21:56
I have no idea about that but he was arrested for drunk driving last week.