I've only ever seen his work for sale on cruise ships. It tends to be a somewhat captive market for people who are on vacation and who buy art like this partly as a memento, kind of like buying a Wyland print or painting when you visit Hawaii.
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul is on to something here. There is nothing strange about someone > producing lousy art. OTOH, it's really weird that so many people > bought this stuff. This is not some kind of visual Ponzi scheme; you > can actually see what you are buying and there is no deception. If he > sold his stuff then there's certainly a major source of reinforcement > that a lot of people think his "art" is just peachy. Why should he > pay any attention to the ones that don't like his stuff and assume > they are right? A lot a folks don't listen to Mozart, after all. > Of course, his reported personal unhappiness may indicate that he > didn't like his own stuff. > > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Apr 8, 2012, at 5:42 PM, John Francis wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:44:34PM -0500, Christine Aguila wrote: >>>> I don't even blame Kinkade for his own self-promotion. >>> >>> I have absolutely no problems with his self-promotion, nor with his >>> ability to sell vast quantities of his product. My objection is to >>> the pretence that he is providing the artistic equivalent of fine >>> dining rather than fast food. >>> >> Of course if his work wasn't positioned as a "fine dining" equivalent, it >> wouldn't sell. The pretense is an essential part of the product. While his >> happy little scenes aren't my idea of art, they obviously fit that >> definition for some. That's opinion to which his buyers are entitled. Beauty >> and message are subjective, and the art market isn't subject to censor by >> the taste police. >> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > 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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.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.
