On 4/7/2012 9:56 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
On Apr 7, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Bob W wrote:
So, the "Painter of Light" (tm) has passed at the early age of 54
years. The Kenny G of painting is gone...
He may not have been too fast to live, but 54 is too young to die.
I'm
54. I shall be mightily pissed off if I don't live well well beyond
90.
I love this phrase from the article someone linked to "it has become
fashionable for art critics to dismiss his pieces."
"It has become fashionable" - as if it was a mere passing fad among
the ignoranti, and the true artistic value of this oeuvre will come
to
be understood with the passing of the years.
Hi work was conceptually trite and formulaic in execution, but he was
not without talent. Of course his main talent was marketing: he
discovered a way to turn painting into a very lucrative enterprise. For
that, he is to be commended.
sure, if you think making money out of shit is the be-all and end-all,
You said that, not me. I merely said that marketing is itself a talent. And
while Kincaid's work as a body is trite in that the formula is so evident, some
of his pieces if viewed in isolation are quite pleasant. That they've made
millions of people happy is a good thing, and that they made their creator rich
isn't a bad thing. He obviously knew how to create an image on canvas. I
suppose he could have aspired to something unique and played the
starving-artist role. Would that have been more commendable?. It's fascinating
that the modern world can deride Kikcade's happy little scenes, yet count
Jackson Pollock's turkey-baster splashing of paint as fine art. How odd, how
foolish.
Somehow I always assumed there was a factory somewhere in China that was
turning out genuine Kikcades based on an propitiatory algorithm, with
hundreds of underpaid "artists" painting on computer generated color by
numbers canvases, managed by overseers trained by the "master", (in my
mind the whips were optional).
Paul
but
his work is still shit and it will always be dismissed as shit by people who
know shit from shinola.
B
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