On 4/7/2012 10:52 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
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.
He turned painting into a *commodity*.
A friend of mine at the George Eastman House often complains about
Ansel Adams, not over his photography, which she likes, but because
she says he was "a shameless self-promoter". My view is that his
self-promotion played a large role in getting photography accepted as
an art form by the general public (there are plenty of
non-photographers who couldn't name any famous photographer aside form
Ansel Adams). For this all photographers - in all genres - owe AA a
great debt. But Kinkade did exactly the *opposite* for painting.
I think that could safely be said of just about at least one prominent
figure in any of the arts today.
Except pornography. That remains largely pure.
-- Walt
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