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In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian motifs and storybook cottages, some of which were lit with tiny LEDs ...
The art of Thomas Kinkade became a Nineties phenomenon as collectors and the American public clamoured for his pieces while critics rolled their eyes. But the ‘Painter of Light’ was battling ...
The covers of the promotional pamphlets feature a Thomas Kinkade painting of a charming, rain-dappled village — complete with church steeple, families out walking the pet Dalmatian and thickets ...
Look at a Thomas Kinkade painting for an instant, and you see a fantasy of home. Look at it again, and that fantasy begins to seem surreal and terrifying.
'Art For Everybody,' a documentary about painter Thomas Kinkade, looks at his downfall after achieving vast success and his hidden stash of paintings.
He makes art critics cringe, but Thomas Kinkade — whose idyllic paintings of storybook cottages and pastoral landscapes glow as if lit from within (some of them literally are, with tiny LEDs ...
As included in his obituary, more than 10 million homes in U.S. have a Thomas Kinkade painting.Kinkade also famously painted the backgrounds for Bakshi and Frazetta’s “Fire & Ice.” “Art ...
“Thomas Kinkade had a quite outsize cultural impact with really bad art,” says the Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight in a new documentary film about the painter. “I mean ...
Kitsch Master Thomas Kinkade’s Vault of Unseen Paintings Emerges. They’re Not What You Expect A new documentary reveals there's more to the "painter of light" than his kitschy landscapes.
Thomas Kinkade became an art sensation by bringing his prints to the public through TV and shopping mall galleries. But the 'Painter of Light' was hiding a vault of dark and tortured art .
Kinkade, who turned out these original images and called himself the “Painter of Light,” is the subject of the new documentary “Art for Everybody,” directed by Miranda Yousef.
A new documentary continues the Thomas Kinkade art hustle “Art for Everybody” is a smart, buzzy film. But its effort to reframe a savvy peddler of kitsch is all too familiar.