Thomas Kinkade Dead: Famed Painter Dies At Age 54

[Odysseus]

Elevator art.

The thing that you have in common with Serrano is the habit of pissing on anything anybody else cares for. Couldn't you have given your inner Grinch a rest long enough for the people who enjoyed his art to take a moment?

Is the Dali painting depravity to you or is this just your usual ignorant ass jaw flapping?

I always found Dali to be garish and obvious. He had great technique, but he was so busy being shocking that he never drew the viewer in. You never got lost in his images because you were aware that they are images.

[Hawkgirl]

Is the Dali painting depravity to you or is this just your usual ignorant ass jaw flapping?

I'm not impressed with Dali or your insult. Try again turdburglar.

[Novaheart]

I always found Dali to be garish and obvious. He had great technique, but he was so busy being shocking that he never drew the viewer in. You never got lost in his images because you were aware that they are images.

On New Years Day ten years ago, I took a collection of Dali prints (dimensions 11 x 17) and ripped them up. I prepared a backing board and laid out the supplies for making a collage. I gave my best friend 45 minutes to arrange the "Pieces of Dali" and then we glued them down. It's still hanging in my hallway. It came out really great. The inspiration was that I was re-reading Andy Warhol's diary.

I understand the objection to Dali's work, but I like a photographic quality to painted art.

[NJCardFan]

On New Years Day ten years ago, I took a collection of Dali prints (dimensions 11 x 17) and ripped them up. I prepared a backing board and laid out the supplies for making a collage. I gave my best friend 45 minutes to arrange the "Pieces of Dali" and then we glued them down. It's still hanging in my hallway. It came out really great. The inspiration was that I was re-reading Andy Warhol's diary.

I understand the objection to Dali's work, but I like a photographic quality to painted art.

Thank you for proving liberal elitism. In one post you put down a recently deceased artists art but then are defending to the bone when someone says they don't like the art of a favorite of yours. For some reason you can't seem to understand that people have different tastes. Instead, you choose to be a smug elitist about it.

[Odysseus]

On New Years Day ten years ago, I took a collection of Dali prints (dimensions 11 x 17) and ripped them up. I prepared a backing board and laid out the supplies for making a collage. I gave my best friend 45 minutes to arrange the "Pieces of Dali" and then we glued them down. It's still hanging in my hallway. It came out really great. The inspiration was that I was re-reading Andy Warhol's diary.

I understand the objection to Dali's work, but I like a photographic quality to painted art.

So do I, but there's still much better. If you really want great surrealism, look at Magritte, who painted much more subtly than Dali. If you want illustrative realism, go no further than Norman Rockwell (the reproductions don't do his paintings justice), or if you want to see great painting by some classicists, you can't go wrong with Bougerou, Waterhouse or Alma-Tadema.

[NJCardFan]

So do I, but there's still much better. If you really want great surrealism, look at Magritte, who painted much more subtly than Dali. If you want illustrative realism, go no further than Norman Rockwell (the reproductions don't do his paintings justice), or if you want to see great painting by some classicists, you can't go wrong with Bougerou, Waterhouse or Alma-Tadema.

There used to be a Rockwell museum in Philly. I went there years ago. I enjoy his art. Nothing like simple Americana. As for art, my tastes are simple. As a baseball fan, I really like Dick Perez's work:

[linda22003]

He painted pretty pictures, but nothing I would want to actually own. Too bad he died relatively young; I wonder what the cause was.

[linda22003]

The artist who was originally known as the "painter of light" was J.M.W. Turner. Here's a painting I'd love to own - Sun Setting on a Lake (1840) - but the Tate Gallery would probably object strenuously.

[Bailey]

There are so many of the left knocking this man after he died, thats a very good reason to check out his works.

[linda22003]

There are so many of the left knocking this man after he died, thats a very good reason to check out his works.

I'm surprised you've never seen any of them. You can probably check him out at the nearest shopping mall; there are galleries of his at them all over the country.