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“This is where I’m putting my retirement money,” says a woman in a brief but infuriating scene from the new documentary “Art for Everybody,” about the life and downfall of the enormously ...
Kinkade, who died of an overdose of alcohol and valium in 2012, called himself the “Painter of Light.” His trademark art consisted of romanticized environments complete with golden sunsets ...
The artist built an empire on his paintings, grounding his own image in faith and family — as he and the machine behind him bragged that a Kinkade hung in one in 20 American homes. By 2001 ...
He carried a few extra pounds and sported a goatee as he spoke with fatherly instruction during art lessons from stages and TV screens. Thomas Kinkade was a popular art sensation the likes of ...
Do black-velvet Elvis paintings count? How about dogs playing poker, or silk-screen renderings of Campbell soup cans? That’s where the critics enter the picture once again, as few take Kinkade ...
Courtesy of the Kinkade Family Foundation and McLennon Pen Co. Gallery. In the 1990s and early 2000s, paintings by the California artist Thomas Kinkade were the art equivalent of elevator music ...
"Thomas Kinkade's style is illustrative saccharine fantasy rather than art with which you can connect at any meaningful level," Charlotte Mullins, the author of A Little History of Art, tells the BBC.
Exclusive: Editor Miranda Yousef makes her directorial debut with the Morgan Neville-produced documentary that premiered at SXSW 2023. Thomas Kinkade is best known for his kitschy paintings of ...