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“Thomas Kinkade had a quite outsize cultural impact with really bad art,” says the Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight in a new documentary film about the painter. “I ...
Thomas Kinkade once presided over an empire of radiantly unrealistic imagery, but his popular oeuvre reflected only a fraction of the man's identity, as Miranda Yousef's documentary reveals.
Thomas Kinkade was a popular ... collectible plates, ornaments, books, armchairs and other household treasures that flew off the shelves. A Kinkade-themed neighborhood was constructed in Vallejo ...
as well as putting his immediately recognisable imagery on furniture and ornaments, and selling them on the QVC shopping network. They also set up hundreds of faux olde worlde Thomas Kinkade ...
Thomas Kinkade, the subject of the documentary “Art for Everybody,” was just 53 when he died of what a coroner said was an overdose of alcohol and Valium. He was the most financially successful ...
Thomas Kinkade turned himself into a ubiquitous brand — but there was more to him than that, a new documentary shows. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...
You may think you know the whole story of kitsch master Thomas Kinkade, the self-branded “painter of light,” who sold obscene amounts of work, generated endless merch, and even offered branded ...