Thomas Kinkade Dead: Famed Painter Dies At Age 54

[Arroyo_Doble]

I'm sure some do. I prefer renaissance art.

I am a cultural chauvinist.

[Odysseus]

That is because he actually wanted to share his art with the people. Not have it stuck in some snooty gallery for the liberals.

And, the snooty galleries turn up their noses at kitsch, unless it's delivered with hip, ironic detachment.

Hate to be the one to break this to you but conservatives like those art galleries too.

Just a head's up.

Not so much. I've pretty much given up on most galleries, unless they are having a retrospective of a specific artist that I like. The galleries in NYC are much more about posing, political posturing and selling of crappy fads than they are about real art, and the difference between a good post-modernist or abstract expressionist and a bad one is completely lost on me.

No reason in the world. You're looking for an argument where there is none. Unless you can explain to me how it is that you think conservatives don't go to art galleries....?

As I said above, it depends. I didn't bother with the galleries when I was in school because they tended to confuse crudity with authenticity, and I didn't. I pretty much stopped going to the Whitney after one particularly awful Biennial, and confined myself to the Met. Once in a while, a few of us would go to MOMA just to remind ourselves how much western civilization had declined in the last century, but that was the extent of it.

[Arroyo_Doble]

Not so much. I've pretty much given up on most galleries, unless they are having a retrospective of a specific artist that I like. The galleries in NYC are much more about posing, political posturing and selling of crappy fads than they are about real art, and the difference between a good post-modernist or abstract expressionist and a bad one is completely lost on me.

Well, I am sure there are conservatives who eschew art galleries. I know some who don't.

But it could be because I live in Texas and unlike NYC, there are many conservatives hanging around.

[linda22003]

You're just mad that a Christian painter made money of his art.

A pretty demented comment, considering that Fra Angelico and Caravaggio are two of my favorite artists.