geeze, Poor Ansel! Why do folks blame artists for self-promotion, shameless or otherwise? If artists want to live off their art, they have to "get-it-out-there"--I don't even blame Kinkade for his own self-promotion.
Kinkade's comments about Picasso I found quite silly, though--I watched a few videos posted on the net. According to Kinkade, he doesn't "believe, in time, that he [Picasso] will be regarded as the titan that he is now." Yea, right bub! Well, to each his own. I am sorry for the loss his family must be feeling now. Cheers, Christine On Apr 7, 2012, at 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. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
