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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: etiolate on April 09, 2012, 04:05:11 AM

Title: Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54
Post by: etiolate on April 09, 2012, 04:05:11 AM: (http://www.kinkadecentral.com/kinkade-2010-bambis-first-year-1st-art-disney-thomas.jpg)

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-thomas-kinkade-painter-of-light-and-moral-arti,72079/
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Friday saw the death of Thomas Kinkade, the self-proclaimed (and trademarked) “Painter Of Light” who sought to turn art into a mass-marketed commodity that even those who had no interest in or understanding of art could appreciate, to incredible success. Kinkade died at the age of 54 of reported “natural causes,” according to his family—although given his relatively young age and no known illnesses, an official cause of death is awaiting the autopsy.

There's stuff I had no clue about with Kinkade. All I know was the giant glowy framings at the mall. (Which he may have defrauded.)

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The controversies for Kinkade didn’t stop there: An excoriating L.A. Times profile in 2006 delved into many accounts of how Kinkade’s upstanding, moral image was just a front for a man with many demons, most of them related to his drinking. Among these were allegations of his groping a female fan, and—most colorfully—an incident in which a drunken Kinkade reportedly began heckling a Siegfried And Roy magic show by screaming, “Codpiece! Codpiece!” Still another told the story of Kinkade—reportedly given to "ritual territory marking"—pissing on a Winnie The Pooh statue at a Disneyland Hotel while muttering, “This one’s for you, Walt.”

:lol
Title: Re: Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54
Post by: brawndolicious on April 09, 2012, 04:20:52 AM: I always liked how stupidly pretty his art was.
Title: Re: Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54
Post by: G The Resurrected on April 09, 2012, 07:04:49 AM: I'm going to pick up my master's series Little Mermaid tomorrow. He personally made in Los Gatos, we get to tour the private archive as well. Thank god I locked in the price 18 months ago. The market is already increasing the value of the master prints like crazy. It'll be going along side the master of Beauty and the Beast: Falling in Love that I got last year and my Lennon artwork/poetry.
Title: Re: Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54
Post by: CrystalGemini on April 09, 2012, 07:42:30 AM: He's like the fat priest that fucks school children then collects money from their parents.
Title: Re: Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 09, 2012, 08:17:15 AM: :usacry
Title: Re: Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 09, 2012, 09:16:41 AM: I read this earlier and thought about posting about it, but then I was like "Meh."
Title: Re: Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54
Post by: brob on April 09, 2012, 09:25:33 AM: does this mean we have to stop using his name as a slur?
Title: Re: Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54
Post by: Robo on April 09, 2012, 10:22:30 AM: Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on April 09, 2012, 09:16:41 AM
I read this earlier and thought about posting about it, but then I was like "Meh."

I saw it in the paper the other day but didn't really notice much beyond that.
Title: Re: Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 09, 2012, 02:25:03 PM: I never had anything against his stuff, I mean I like pretty colors and rainbows
Title: Re: Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54
Post by: chronovore on April 10, 2012, 03:18:59 AM: If someone could just take out Christian Lassen, the world would be a safer place for someone with talent to replace The Mall Artists.