As someone who was from the same hometown as Kincade, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Well gee. :(

No more amplified schmaltz from my "least favourite" favourite painter dude?

Darn it all to heck.

There were a couple Something Awful threads with parodies of his work.

The quality varies, but they all made me laugh.

Paintings of Light, Part I (new window)

Paintings of Light, Part II (new window)

Please avoid the final two pages of Part II AT ALL COST.

Since I have you all here, a related threadjack:

McNaughton, conservative art troll working Poe's law, or the real thing?

GonadtheBarbarian: ART SNOB THREAD!!!11!

I sure hope so.

\Thomas Kinkade's "art" sucks balls
\\Modern day equivalent of velvet paintings of bulldogs playing poker

I thought he was the guy who painted those crazy Jesus and the Founding Fathers paintings. You know, the one where the kid is signing the blood contract with Cthulu.

Digitalstrange: There's gotta be a stroke joke in here too but I shot my wad with the first 2 cracks

Cold and unlit and burnt...

Sad, non-creator?

Sucks to be you unoriginal.

Always seeking that which you cannot grasp?

Ha!

;)

P.S. Burn hard, hater.

Indubitably: Digitalstrange: There's gotta be a stroke joke in here too but I shot my wad with the first 2 cracks

Cold and unlit and burnt...

Sad, non-creator?

Sucks to be you unoriginal.

Always seeking that which you cannot grasp?

Ha!

;)

P.S. Burn hard, hater.

too harsh.

i love you too.

;)

I thought his paintings were cheesy, but some of them were okay. I bought some of them as jigsaw puzzles. They were actually perfect for that medium. Hey, they sold, and he made a living. It is rather telling that his widow really only mentioned how well he provided for his family (while they were jetting across the world) as his best quality. Poor guy. From the photo of him, and the suddenness of his death, I would guess heart disease.

logic523: As a former custom picture framer, I can't help feeling the worst type of schadenfreude over his death. I HATE his work, and I framed so many prints of his stuff.

This. It's hard to hold back the vomit and tell that nice hausfrau how beautiful it's going to look. Not to mention biting the tongue very hard when she makes sure to ask for "acid free glass" to keep its value, just like the nice people at the gallery told her to do.

A lot of framers are rejoicing tonight.

As my Lithuanian ex-girlfriend use to say, "Junkis".

kmmontandon: hlehmann: What's next, the death of the guy that created all those paintings of dogs playing poker? How will the world of fine art ever survive?

Don't worry, there's still a vast wealth of mediocre talent churning out shiatty, over-pasteled paintings of crying eagles and Jesus holding up the Declaration of Independence.

A GIS for "Jesus holding up the Declaration of Independence" was disappointing, I was hoping to find a new wallpaper for my laptop. I guess I'll just go with Kinkade Cthulhu.

Confabulat: Well I'm sure we'll be hard pressed to find someone able to recreate his unique talent.

The local mall or flea market?

logic523: As a former custom picture framer, I can't help feeling the worst type of schadenfreude over his death. I HATE his work, and I framed so many prints of his stuff.

just curious, how many people came into your store and thought they were being clever and ironic by ordering a print of the Kramer portrait?



/still better than Kinkade

DrMcNinja: FTFA: one of most popular artists in America

...this statement is accurate....but still.....

Yeah, and people with names like Ke$ha and Jake Owen are among our most popular musicians. Face it, you're surrounded by morons with no taste.

DeerNuts: logic523: As a former custom picture framer, I can't help feeling the worst type of schadenfreude over his death. I HATE his work, and I framed so many prints of his stuff.

This. It's hard to hold back the vomit and tell that nice hausfrau how beautiful it's going to look. Not to mention biting the tongue very hard when she makes sure to ask for "acid free glass" to keep its value, just like the nice people at the gallery told her to do.

A lot of framers are rejoicing tonight.

hey at least the gallery folks were helping you upsell on the glass

Funk Brothers: prgrmr: He supposedly died of "natural causes", his family are still proceeding with their trip to Australia.

Woz didn't put off his weekly dinner at Outback Steakhouse with the family when Steve Jobs died. Even if one of my parents is on their deathbed and I'm about to go on a trip of a lifetime to Japan, they probably would want me to go to Japan.

HAHA, from reading Woz's Twitter feed, I thought he lived IN an Outback Steakhouse.

craxyd: szyska: Usually when an artist dies, his works go up in value but this guy's work in 1 out of every 20 homes in America. I don;t think that's gonna happen here.


Most of those are reprints. I've been a gallery of his stuff where paintings were going for $2,000 or more. That was 6 months or so ago. If I were to go there tomorrow, I'm sure prices will have increased by at least 1/3

There's got to be over one hundred million homes in The U.S. if his work is in 1 in 20 he must've been a zillionare

FizixJunkee,
\Thomas Kinkade's "art" sucks balls
\\Modern day equivalent of velvet paintings of bulldogs playing poker

Bite your tongue mofo. Any good reproduction of dogs playing poker on velvet is 3x as good as any of Kincade's feel-good nationalistic bullshiat with 3,000,000 numbered lithographic photocopied images.

The Bradford Exchange will reanimate him.

/harley/wolf/eagle clocks and commemorative plates won't pay the bills

I presume that his ashes will be stored in an urn that's been hand-painted with a whimsical Christmas scene, lights up, plays Silent Night and is available for only three easy payments of $29.95 from the Franklin Mint - but wait! Order now...

/Coke overdose.

DeerNuts: logic523: As a former custom picture framer, I can't help feeling the worst type of schadenfreude over his death. I HATE his work, and I framed so many prints of his stuff.

This. It's hard to hold back the vomit and tell that nice hausfrau how beautiful it's going to look. Not to mention biting the tongue very hard when she makes sure to ask for "acid free glass" to keep its value, just like the nice people at the gallery told her to do.

A lot of framers are rejoicing tonight.


They're going to have to first endure a short-term spike in framing his shiat as gullible people, hoping to cash in on the inevitable increase in value of his "art", run out and buy his "art" from that weird store in the mall.

autopsybeverage: DrMcNinja: FTFA: one of most popular artists in America

...this statement is accurate....but still.....

Yeah, and people with names like Ke$ha and Jake Owen are among our most popular musicians. Face it, you're surrounded by morons with no taste.

Wait, what's wrong with Jake Owen?

Damn, I'll have to look for other art to put on my walls now. Hmm I think I've found the...



holy grail

This one was my fave.

Because wowcakes.

malaktaus: kmmontandon: hlehmann: What's next, the death of the guy that created all those paintings of dogs playing poker? How will the world of fine art ever survive?

Don't worry, there's still a vast wealth of mediocre talent churning out shiatty, over-pasteled paintings of crying eagles and Jesus holding up the Declaration of Independence.

A GIS for "Jesus holding up the Declaration of Independence" was disappointing, I was hoping to find a new wallpaper for my laptop. I guess I'll just go with Kinkade Cthulhu.

This? (new window)

I'm guessing suicide while his family is furiously hiding assets from creditors and FBI somewhere in the outback. He was a great artist, he got people to buy his slop on paper and canvas and he got investors to foot the bill for manufacturing the slop so he'll go down as a con artist and that legacy will far outlive any of his art (slop).

DeerNuts: logic523:... Not to mention biting the tongue very hard when she makes sure to ask for "acid free glass" to keep its value, just like the nice people at the gallery told her to do.

as a glazier I used to get orders from framing shops for custom-sized glass, we would have a good laugh at "acid-free glass" before I would pull a sheet of 3-mil non-glare

So now they're calling intestinal perforation by horse penis "natural causes"?

hlehmann: How will the world of fine art ever survive?

The world of fine art died years ago.

Glass lights, artists.

Cast too many stones, and the light goes out.

Much to the world's chagrin and yer aestheti-grin...

P.S. You know exactly nothing. Yer welcome.

P.P.S. G'night.

;)

He was know as the J.J. Abrams of paint.

Damn...I knew I should of fought for that kinkade painting during my divorce. Now it's worth has gone up and my ex will reap all benefit from it.

Ah, yes, Fark.com... the bastion of exquisite taste. And squirrel nuts.

hlehmann: What's next, the death of the guy that created all those paintings of dogs playing poker? How will the world of fine art ever survive?

Don't insult the dogs playing poker creator by comparing him to the hack.

Bartleby the Scrivener: [i.imgur.com image 500x375]

That's... that's awesome! Your art magazine, I would subscribe and sign up for limited edition plates.

/Miss Bob Ross so much.
//Happy trees!
///More talent in his camel hair #2 than Kinkade and all of his brushes.

This was art that made Norman Rockwell look like Lucien Freud.

I am very pleased to relate that I have never heard of this flea-market Picasso with his whore's face palette.

Seriously, I thought the Brothers Hildebrandthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Hildebrandt were to overpainting what Octomom was to a tight snatch, but this guy would appear to be the Acid Queen of Sherwin-Williams.

Also, coke is a helluva drug.

TheHappyCanadian: DeerNuts: logic523:... Not to mention biting the tongue very hard when she makes sure to ask for "acid free glass" to keep its value, just like the nice people at the gallery told her to do.

as a glazier I used to get orders from framing shops for custom-sized glass, we would have a good laugh at "acid-free glass" before I would pull a sheet of 3-mil non-glare

Used to work in a glass shop, didn't even realize I mentally substituted Non-glare for acid-free in his post and therefore missed his point entirely. It was such a common mistake I stopped correcting customers about it.

austin_millbarge: Funk Brothers: prgrmr: He supposedly died of "natural causes", his family are still proceeding with their trip to Australia.

Woz didn't put off his weekly dinner at Outback Steakhouse with the family when Steve Jobs died. Even if one of my parents is on their deathbed and I'm about to go on a trip of a lifetime to Japan, they probably would want me to go to Japan.

HAHA, from reading Woz's Twitter feed, I thought he lived IN an Outback Steakhouse.

Woz is so rich, he's got his very own private Apple Store in his 24 car garage...with an Outback Steakhouse in the back of it. And in the bathrooms, there's another Apple Store.

I Love Rooster: Damn...I knew I should of fought for that kinkade painting during my divorce. Now it's worth has gone up and my ex will reap all benefit from it.

"... its value."
And no, it hasn't.

Joan Didion:

"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."

Painter of Blight

McManus_brothers: autopsybeverage: DrMcNinja: FTFA: one of most popular artists in America

...this statement is accurate....but still.....

Yeah, and people with names like Ke$ha and Jake Owen are among our most popular musicians. Face it, you're surrounded by morons with no taste.

Wait, what's wrong with Jake Owen?

I honestly don't know. I wanted to represent both sides, so I just googled top country artists and his name was at number one. If I get in someone's car and country is on the radio, I hit the radio's power button without thinking about it.