Why was nobody wearing black at the mall? Kinkade dead at 54

[etiolate]

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-thomas-kinkade-painter-of-light-and-moral-arti,72079/

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.)

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.”

[brawndolicious]

I always liked how stupidly pretty his art was.

[G The Resurrected]

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.

[CrystalGemini]

He's like the fat priest that fucks school children then collects money from their parents.

[Great Rumbler]

 

[Joe Molotov]

I read this earlier and thought about posting about it, but then I was like "Meh."

[brob]

does this mean we have to stop using his name as a slur?

[Robo]

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.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I never had anything against his stuff, I mean I like pretty colors and rainbows

[chronovore]

If someone could just take out Christian Lassen, the world would be a safer place for someone with talent to replace The Mall Artists.