OT: If you thought Thomas Kinkade paintings were worthless now...

[ka jowct]

The guy puts diarrhea on canvas. He's offensive on so many levels.

[trisho.]

I think my favorite face-wincing quote is this one:

"This is God-given talent," she said of a favored print, "Sierra Evening Majesty," with its snowy peaks, red-gold skies and smoke wisping from a cabin chimney. "He is a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci or Monet. There is no one in our generation who can paint like that."

These people obviously have no art training or knowledge of the contemporary art world. Hell, they don't have any knowledge of da Vinci's guiding priniciples. Blooz is right, art education in this country is a failure.

I'm glad this no-talent hack is finally getting what he deserves...

[incognegro]

how bad can he be?


"an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas"

Dandois, who left the company to become chief executive of a group of galleries owned by Kinkade's brother, Patrick, recounted that about six years ago the artist was so intoxicated during a performance by Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas that people seated nearby moved away from him.

"I think it was Roy or Siegfried or whatever had a codpiece in his leotards," Dandois testified. "And so when the show started, Thom just started yelling, 'Codpiece, codpiece,' and had to be quieted by his mother and Nanette."


that's some funny stuff. my parents love his crap, and own a print which they paid to have highlighted. they're bamboozled by his religious overtones, too.


"Book of Ecclesiastes says enjoy yourself, have a glass of wine, for this is God's will for you," he said. "It's never consistent with God's will that we behave in a sinful way; however, God also loves us and accepts us and understands that at times we have our failings."


God says grabbing boobies is OK if you've had too much hard liquor... oh, wait, the Bible says WINE, not whiskey.

[Psurfer]

It's astounding the really significant amounts of money people will pay for utter crap that some slick huckster offers. This guy made $50 million! on items that in a short while will have almost Zero re-sale value.

Then there's that guy on some cable channel w/his so-called Fine Art Auctions; same kind of "limited edition" print trash, each going for $800 or a couple of grand at about the same rate as QVC sells toasters. The first time I saw it, I thought 90% of the sales must be completely fake, just trying to sucker in one live person to call in w/an actual credit card purchase. Now, sadly, I realize that they probably were really selling all that schlock per minute...

[trisho.]

incognegro Wrote:
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> God says grabbing boobies is OK if you've had too
> much hard liquor... oh, wait, the Bible says WINE,
> not whiskey.

Zing! Good one. I may have to switch my alcohol of choice now...