On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 01:53:21PM +0100, 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, but > his work is still shit and it will always be dismissed as shit by people who > know shit from shinola.
This is, or course, local news for me - he lived only a few miles from here. I wouldn't pay any attention to the biographical and background information in the news article - it reads as though it was lifted from a PR handout (which may very well be the case). That's about the only place I can see coming up with the ridiculous "it is estimated that 1 in every 20 homes in the United States has a Kincade painting". Estimated by whom? I suspect that estimate is made by assuming that no home has more than one example, and that all the prints ever sold have been lovingly preserved. I was, however, more than a little amused to note that the (front page) article in the Mercury News that has been quoted was positioned right next to an article on the California School for the Blind. How fitting. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
