Dear Log,
Ignatz made me look into the void.
for us godless heathens? You know, maybe something in a non-sparkly white....I should know better than to graze your journal as I'm having my morning coffee
Re:I wonder if they have one of those
brev on 2003-04-03T09:52:36
Athetists can imagine those are the invisible hands of the marketplace.
Re:Scary.
TorgoX on 2003-04-03T16:09:51
Mmmmm Thomas Kinkade!«"His paintings have this treacly, sickly sweet aspect which is idealised by Americans," says [San Franciscan artist Jo] Sances. "The objective was to add an element of reality to them. I think the paintings did hit a nerve." He was deluged with emails following the controversy [where he parodied Kinkade's style]: "Nine out of 10 were in favour but the ones that weren't accused me of being unpatriotic and said I should go and live in Afghanistan."»
I just don't understand the appeal of these things. It's the pictorial equivalent of eating a bowl of ketchup. But so many people seem to have such an earnest appreciation for Kinkade's stuff that I have a hard time dismissing them all as just dumb -- altho it's very tempting. Maybe I can serenly dismiss them as having some sort of wonky perceptual disorder, like aesthetic tinnitis.Re:Scary.
pudge on 2003-04-08T02:19:41
I don't personally like Kinkade, but he is brilliant with light on landscapes. Too bad that's ALL he is brilliant at.:) I don't have a problem with his work in particular, though; my problem is with the pervasiveness of his work. He is a fine painter, creating works many people like. I just wish I didn't see his works everywhere.
